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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

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.

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Spotted tree

(Bot.)

an Australian tree (

Flindersia maculosa

); – so called because its bark falls off in spots.

pp.

Marked with spots or places of a different color from the ground; as a spotted beast or garment.