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Of or pertaining to spots upon a surface; spotted; maculate.

Spotted; speckled.

A kind of pottery, with opaque glazing and showy, which reached its greatest perfection in Italy in the 16th century.

A spotted trout (Salvelinus malma), inhabiting Northern America, west of the Rocky Mountains; -- called also Dolly Varden trout, bull trout, red-spotted trout, and golet.

Having the edge veined or spotted with different colors like marble, as a book.

Made to resemble marble; veined or spotted like marble. "Marbled paper." Boyle.

An American wild cat (Felis tigrina), ranging from Mexico to Brazil. It is spotted with black. Called also long-tailed cat.

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

a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time. At their savory dinner set Of herbs and other country messes. Milton.

Italian pottery of the epoch and general character of majolica, but less brilliantly decorated, esp. such pottery without tin enamel, but painted and glazed.

A hole in the wall of a pottery kiln, by which the state of the pieces within can be judged.

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

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

A small oven for baking and fixing the colors of painted or printed pottery, without exposing the pottery to the flames of the furnace or kiln.

st 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 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.

Finicky or pottering work; specif. (Fine Arts),

ts, as to a choice variety of apple, a species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety of pottery clay, etc.