| • | A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot;
   a place discolored. | 
											
															| • | A stain on character or reputation; something that soils
   purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish. | 
											
															| • | A small part of a different color from the main part, or from
   the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a
   playing card. | 
											
															| • | A small extent of space; a place; any particular place. | 
											
															| • | A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a
   spot on its head just above its beak. | 
											
															| • | A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic
   coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders
   and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody,
   Lafayette, masooka, and old wife. | 
											
															| • | The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each
   side at the base of the tail. See Redfish. | 
											
															| • | Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate
   delivery. | 
											
															| • | To make visible marks upon with some foreign matter; to
   discolor in or with spots; to stain; to cover with spots or figures;
   as, to spot a garnment; to spot paper. | 
											
															| • | To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize;
   to detect; as, to spot a criminal. | 
											
															| • | To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish,
   as reputation; to asperse. | 
											
															| • | To become stained with spots. |