spot

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"What you-all wants?" demanded the colored man nervously, for the spot was a particularly lonely one.

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  1. noun A place of relatively small and definite limits.
  2. noun A mark on a surface differing sharply in color from its surroundings.
  3. noun A blemish, mark, or pimple on the skin.

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  • Keeping silent, she resolved to take the opportunity of making another effort to escape from her captors; as the spot was approached, however, she felt a hand pressed on her mouth. —  The Lily of Leyden
  • Of all its former grandeur and strength scarce a vestige remains: one ruined fort, of a commanding height, above the town, alone attests its ancient glory: from this spot is a charming view, taking in all the town and plain and surrounding mountains. —  Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
  • On the breaking up of the ice, therefore, such a spot will be the first to yield, and allow the boulders carried on the back of the glacier to fall into the hollow thus formed, where they will rest upon the projecting rock left uncovered. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
  • We possess a city founded under auspices and auguries; not a spot is there in it that is not full of religious rites and of the gods: the days for the anniversary sacrifices are not more definitely stated, than are the places in which they are to be performed. —  The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
  • The epitome of this spot is a tin! —  Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour
 

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place ·  patch ·  area ·  grind ·  one ·  point ·  line ·  scene ·  land ·  light ·  circle ·  shadow

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spot:   spots ·  spotted ·  spotting
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English.

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  1. from Middle English spot, spotte = Old Flemish spotte, a spot; cf. Dutch spat, a speck (see spat), Danish spætte, a spot; these forms are apparently connected with Icelandic spotti, spottr, Swedish spott, spittle, and so with English spit; but Middle English spot maybe in part a variant of splot, from Anglo-Saxon splot. a spot: see splot. The D. spot = Old High German Middle High German spot, German spott = icel. Swedish spott, Danish spot, mockery, derision, is not related.
  2. from Middle English spotten (= Old Flemish spotten); from spot, n. Cf. spat, spatter.
 

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