spotted

spotted
    adj 1: having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color
           or texture); "a field patched with ice and snow"; "the
           wall had a spotty speckled effect"; "a black-and-white
           spotted cow" [syn: {patched}, {spotty}, {spotted}]
    

patterned \patterned\ adj.
   Having describable patterns, especially patterns of colors.
   [Narrower terms: {banded}, {blotched, blotchy, splotched},
   {brindled, brindle, brinded, tabby}, {burled}, {checked,
   checkered}, {dappled, mottled}, {dotted, flecked, specked,
   speckled, stippled}, {figured}, {floral, flowered}, {laced},
   {marbled, marbleized}, {moire, watered}, {pinstriped,
   pinstripe(prenominal)}, {slashed, streaked}, {spotted},
   {sprigged}, {streaked, streaky}, {striped, stripy},
   {tessellated}, {veined, venose}] {plain, solid}
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Spot \Spot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spotted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Spotting}.]
   1. To make visible marks upon with some foreign matter; to
      discolor in or with spots; to stain; to cover with spots
      or figures; as, to spot a garment; to spot paper.
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   2. To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize;
      to detect; as, to spot a criminal. [Cant]
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   3. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish,
      as reputation; to asperse.
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            My virgin life no spotted thoughts shall stain.
                                                  --Sir P.
                                                  Sidney.
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            If ever I shall close these eyes but once,
            May I live spotted for my perjury.    --Beau. & Fl.
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   {To spot timber}, to cut or chip it, in preparation for
      hewing.
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Spotted \Spot"ted\, a.
   Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The
   spotted panther." --Spenser.
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   {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.
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75 Moby Thesaurus words for "spotted":
      assigned, bedraggled, befouled, besmirched, bespangled, bespeckled,
      blotched, blotchy, defiled, deployed, dirtied, dotted, dotty,
      drabbled, draggled, dusted, embosomed, emplaced, ensconced,
      established, fixed, flea-bitten, flecked, fleckered, fouled,
      frecked, freckle-faced, freckled, freckly, installed, located,
      macular, maculate, maculated, patchy, peppered, placed, planted,
      pocked, pockmarked, pocky, pointille, pointillistic, polka-dot,
      positioned, posted, powdered, punctated, seated, set, settled,
      situate, situated, smirched, smudged, soiled, spangled, spattered,
      specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splashed, splattered,
      splotched, splotchy, spotty, sprinkled, stained, stationed,
      stippled, studded, sullied, tainted, tarnished