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Having an eyelike spot on the wing, with two dots within it of a different color, as in some butterflies.

Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple.

A stain; a spot; a smooch. Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust. Rowley. Black and white, writing or print; as, I must have that statement in black and white. -- Blue black, a pigment of a blue black color. -- Ivory black, a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. Wh…

The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed. Let me still remain The true blank of thine eye. Shak.

A white spot on the forehead of a horse.

Without blemish; spotless. A life in all so blemishless. Feltham.

A South African antelope (Alcelaphus albifrons), having a large white spot on the forehead.

ll, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopidæ, with rudimentary eyes. -- Blind spot (Anat.), the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light. -- Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- call…

To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink. The brief was writ and blotted all with gore. Gascoigne.

A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch. Spots and blotches . . . some red, others yellow. Harvey.

A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp. [Local, U. S.] Bog bean. See Buck bean. -- Bog bumper (bump, to make a loud noise), Bog blitter, Bog bluiter, Bog jumper, the bittern. [Prov.] -- Bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland. -- B…

A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling a perch.

ery color. Robert Greene. Frog and lizard in holiday coats And turtle brave in his golden spots. Emerson.

Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded. "With a brindled lion played." Churchill.

Salvelinus malma of California and Oregon; -- called also Dolly Varden trout and red-spotted trout.

rnet. Burnet moth (Zoöl.), in England, a handsome moth (Zygæna filipendula), with crimson spots on the wings. -- Burnet saxifrage. (Bot.) See Saxifrage. -- Canadian burnet, a marsh plant (Poterium Canadensis). -- Great burnet, Wild burnet, Poterium (or Sanguisorba) oficinalis.

Bespotted with mud or dirt. [Obs.] Chaucer.

y plant, biought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name.

Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.

A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.