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Infected or spotted with measles, as pork. -- Mea"sled*ness, n.

ms, and marked by the appearance on the third day of an eruption of distinct red circular spots, which coalesce in a crescentic form, are slightly raised above the surface, and after the fourth day of the eruption gradually decline; rubeola. Measles commences with the ordinary symptoms of fever. Am. Cyc.…

Covered with spots; speckled; variegated. [Obs.]

An Asiatic bird (Gracula musica), allied to the starlings. It is black, with a white spot on the wings, and a pair of flat yellow wattles on the head. It is often tamed and taught to pronounce words.

A spot; a defilement. The moil of death upon them. Mrs. Browning.

A spot; a blemish; a mole. [Obs.] Spenser.

A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

me, long-tailed West American monkey (Cercopithecus mona). The body is dark olive, with a spot of white on the haunches.

A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed. It is distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.

The European small-spotted dogfish, or houndfish. See the Note under Houndfish.

the upper surface of the wings. The lower surface is usually brown or gray, with eyelike spots.

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

Marked with spots of different colors; variegated; spotted; as, mottled wood. "The mottled meadows." Drayton.

A salmon (Salmo mykiss, syn. S. purpuratus) marked with black spots and a red throat, found in most of the rivers from Alaska to the Colorado River, and in Siberia; -- called also black-spotted trout, cutthroat trout, and redthroat trout.

Spotted; frecled.

A spot or mark on the skin of children when born; a birthmark; -- usually applied to vascular tumors, i. e., those consisting mainly of blood vessels, as dilated arteries, veins, or capillaries.

ail plate, iron in plates from which cut nails are made. -- On the nail, in hand; on the spot; immediately; without delay or time of credit; as, to pay money on the nail. "You shall have ten thousand pounds on the nail." Beaconsfield. -- To hit the nail on the head, to hit most effectively; to do or say a thing in th…

A large North American lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush). It is usually spotted with red, and sometimes weighs over forty pounds. Called also Mackinaw trout, lake trout, lake salmon, salmon trout, togue, and tuladi.

An African carnivore (Nandinia binotata), allied to the civets. It is spotted with black.

A white spot or a slight opacity of the cornea.