Spot: alternatives and connections

To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.

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To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.

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To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in.

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To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt.

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To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; di…

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The black grime or soot of coal.

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Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.

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Detected.

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Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.

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To uncover.

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A wandering; a roving or irregular course.

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Defect; want; lack; default.

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To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

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Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.

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A thin plate or lamina.

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A small lake. See Mere.

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A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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One who or that which marks.

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of Mark

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To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.

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The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.

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To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or…

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To appoint.

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The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

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The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.

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To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence…

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To gain sight of; to discover at a distance, or in a state of concealment; to espy; to see.

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The act of subdividing, or separating a part into smaller parts.

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To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.

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To mark with speckles or spots.

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A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.

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One of the spots on a dappled animal.

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To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.

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Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.

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A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulv…

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A small yellowish or brownish spot in the skin, particularly on the face, neck, or hands.

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To spot; to stain; to blur.

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To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.

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To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.

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To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat;…

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A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself.

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A spot; a stain; a daub.

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To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.

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To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation.

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To soil, or change the appearance of, especially by an alternation induced by the air, or by dust, or the like; to diminish, dull, or destroy the lus…

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The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense.

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A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.

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A tavern; a house where liquors are retailed.

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A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.

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A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthe…

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of Crow

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An island in a river; an ait.

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The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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Four and one added; one more than four.

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One more than three; twice two.

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See 1st Frith.

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To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for t…

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To hie.

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Set apart to the service or worship of God; hallowed; sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels; a holy priesthood.

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The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or ju…

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The act of joining, or the state of being joined; union; combination; coalition; as, the junction of two armies or detachments; the junction of paths.

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A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb.

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A spot.

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A faint, cloudlike, self-luminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars. True nebulae are gaseous; but very distant star cl…

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Eight and one more; one less than ten; as, nine miles.

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To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to…

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A mock sun appearing in the form of a bright light, sometimes near the sun, and tinged with colors like the rainbow, and sometimes opposite to the su…

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A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.

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Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung…

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A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for wat…

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A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.

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A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.

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A sacred place; hence, a place of retreat; a room reserved for personal use; as, an editor's sanctum.

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To rub hard with something rough, as sand or Bristol brick, especially for the purpose of cleaning; to clean by friction; to make clean or bright; to…

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One more than six; six and one added; as, seven days make one week.

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One more than five; twice three; as, six yards.

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state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.

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The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.

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To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.

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A spot; a stain; a daub.

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To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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The top; the highest point.

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A luminous spot occasionally seen a few degrees from the sun, supposed to be formed by the intersection of two or more halos, or in a manner similar…

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A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.

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One more than nine; twice five.

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The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear.

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A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.

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A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem,…

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A girdle; a cincture.

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Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.

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Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.

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One of the spots on a dappled animal.

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One of the spots on a dappled animal.

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Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible…

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Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible…

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The act of discerning.

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The act of discerning.

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The act of espying; notice; discovery.

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The act of espying; notice; discovery.

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The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish.

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The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish.

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To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

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To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

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One who spots.

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One who spots.

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To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.

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To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character,…

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The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened.

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To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.

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Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.

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To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

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One of the spots on a dappled animal.

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To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

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To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover.

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To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.

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Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic.

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To catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; to discover, as a distant object partly concealed, or not obvious to notice; to see at a glance; to dis…

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A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.

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The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish.

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A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a…

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A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming…

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Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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To appoint.

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To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.

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To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

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To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.

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To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.

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A suffocating smoke.

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A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself.

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To gain sight of; to discover at a distance, or in a state of concealment; to espy; to see.

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To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.

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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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