Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make spots on; mark with spots; cover with or as with blots or blemishes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To mark with spots, or as with spots.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make spots on;
mark with spots;cover with or as withblots orblemishes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb mark with, or as if with, spots
Etymologies
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From Middle English bespotten, equivalent to be- + spot.
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Examples
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But time would fail me to speak of Bridge Street, Brooklyn, a most pleasantly located, and beautiful structure; of Sullivan Street, New York, and of those thousand and one temples which bespot the mighty West; beginning with Wylie Street, Pittsburg, (our Mother, God bless her!) in every city they stand, until we are led to cry out:
An Apology for African Methodism Benjamin Tucker 1867
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