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izon; when reaching south beyond the zenith, it forms what is called the corona, about a spot in the heavens toward which the dipping needle points. Occasionally the aurora appears as an arch of light across the heavens from east to west. Sometimes it assumes a wavy appearance, and the streams of light are then called…

One who rules with undisputed sway in any company or relation; a despot. The autocrat of the breakfast table. Holmes.

in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.

The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name).

A row of bright spots observed in connection with total eclipses of the sun. Just before and after a total eclipse, the slender, unobscured crescent of the sun's disk appears momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of beads. The phenomenon (first fully described by Francis Baily, 1774 -- 1844) is tho…

A West Indian sapotaceous tree (Bumelia retusa).

Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced. Bald buzzard (Zoöl.), the fishhawk or osprey. -- Bald coot (Zoöl.), a name of the European coot (Fulica atra), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head.

A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform red or dark color, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure. Ure.

A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.

The spotted redshank.

A resin, called also galipot.

An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain.

An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomæa batatas).

hion. [Obs.] She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty. Jer. Taylor. Beauty spot, a patch or spot placed on the face with intent to heighten beauty by contrast.

An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15- 24.

A porcelainlike kind of decorative pottery with a high gloss, which is sometimes iridescent. A very fine kind is made at Belleek in Ireland.

, a. Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied.

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

To mark with speckles or spots. Milton.

To stick over, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce. Truth shall retire Bestuck with slanderous darts. Milton.