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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SPOTTED, pp. Marked with spots or places of a different color from the ground; as a spotted beast or garment.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture); "a field patched with ice and snow"; "the wall had a spotty speckled effect"; "a black-and-white spotted cow" [syn: patched, spotty, spotted]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 13th century 1. marked with spots 2. being sullied ; tarnished 3. characterized by the appearance of spots

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. marked or decorated with spots. Phrases and idioms: spotted dick (or dog) 1 Brit. a suet pudding containing currants. 2 a Dalmatian dog. spotted fever 1 cerebrospinal meningitis. 2 typhus. Derivatives: spottedness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Spotted Spot"ted, a. Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. ``The spotted panther.'' --Spenser. Spotted fever (Med.), a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis. Spotted tree (Bot.), an Australian tree (Flindersia maculosa); -- so called because its bark falls off in spots.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Spot Spot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Spotting.] 1. 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. 2. To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal. [Cant] 3. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse. My virgin life no spotted thoughts shall stain. --Sir P. Sidney. If ever I shall close these eyes but once, May I live spotted for my perjury. --Beau. & Fl. To spot timber, to cut or chip it, in preparation for hewing.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Something that is spotted has a pattern of spots on it. ...hand-painted spotted cups and saucers in green and blue... His cheeks were spotted with blackheads. ADJ: oft ADJ with n 2. see also spot

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Speckled, bespeckled, bespotted, dotted, freckled, spotty, maculated.

Moby Thesaurus

assigned, bedraggled, befouled, besmirched, bespangled, bespeckled, blotched, blotchy, defiled, deployed, dirtied, dotted, dotty, drabbled, draggled, dusted, embosomed, emplaced, ensconced, established, fixed, flea-bitten, flecked, fleckered, fouled, frecked, freckle-faced, freckled, freckly, installed, located, macular, maculate, maculated, patchy, peppered, placed, planted, pocked, pockmarked, pocky, pointille, pointillistic, polka-dot, positioned, posted, powdered, punctated, seated, set, settled, situate, situated, smirched, smudged, soiled, spangled, spattered, specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splashed, splattered, splotched, splotchy, spotty, sprinkled, stained, stationed, stippled, studded, sullied, tainted, tarnished