vi to become stained with spots.
2. spot ·add. ·adj lit., being on the spot, or place;.
3. spot ·noun a small extent of space; a place; any particular place.
4. spot ·noun commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
5. spot ·noun a mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
6. spot ·noun a variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.
7. spot ·add. ·adj on hand for immediate delivery after sale;
said of commodities; as, spot wheat.
8. spot ·noun a stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
9. spot ·noun the southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. ·see redfish.
10. spot ·vt to mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal.
11. spot ·noun 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.
12. spot ·vt 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.
13. spot ·vt to stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse.
14. spot ·noun 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.