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rk on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored. Out, damned spot! Out, I say! Shak.

Cash paid or ready for payment at once upon delivery of property purchased.

The pocketing of the red ball in a top corner pocket from off its own spot so as to leave the cue ball in position for an easy winning hazard in either top corner pocket.

Without a spot; especially, free from reproach or impurity; pure; untained; innocent; as, a spotless mind; spotless behavior. A spotless virgin, and a faultless wife. Waller.

The projected spot or circle of light used to illuminate brilliantly a single person or object or group on the stage; leaving the rest of the stage more or less unilluminated; hence, conspicuous public notice. [Cant or Colloq.]

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.…

State or quality of being spotted.

One who spots.

The state or quality of being spotty.

Full of spots; marked with spots.

To mark with spots, or as with spots.

A rounded organ between the eyes of the frog; the interocular gland.

Five-spotted. [R.] Shak.

power in human hands so naturally leads to it, that cruelty has become associated with despot and tyrant. C. J. Smith.

The station or government of a despot; also, the domain of a despot. Freeman.

Having the character of, or pertaining to, a despot; absolute in power; possessing and abusing unlimited power; evincing despotism; tyrannical; arbitrary. -- Des*pot"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Des*pot"ic*al*ness, n.

The power, spirit, or principles of a despot; absolute control over others; tyrannical sway; tyranny. "The despotism of vice." Byron.

A supporter of despotism. [R.]

To act the despot.

An eyelike spot of color.