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Goody (?), n.; pl. Goodies ().
1. A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the pl. [Colloq.]
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2. (Zool.) An American fish; the lafayette or spot.
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Goody, n.; pl. Goodies (#). [Prob. contr. from goodwife.] Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.
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Goody (?), a. Weakly or sentimentally good; affectedly good; -- often in the reduplicated form goody-goody. [Colloq.]
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Spot (spŏt), n. [Cf. Scot. & D. spat, Dan. spette, Sw. spott spittle, slaver; from the root of E. spit. See Spit to eject from the mouth, and cf. Spatter.]
1. A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
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Out, damned spot! Out, I say! Shak.
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2. A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
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Yet Chloe, sure, was formed without a spot. Pope.
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3. A small part of a different color from the main part, or from the ground upon which it is; as, “the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card”.
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4. A small extent of space; a place; any particular place. “Fixed to one spot.” Otway.
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That spot to which I point is Paradise. Milton.
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“A jolly place,” said he, “in times of old!
But something ails it now: the spot is cursed.” Wordsworth.
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5. (Zool.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.
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6. (Zool.) (a) A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife. (b) The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See Redfish.
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7. pl. Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery. [Broker's Cant]
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Crescent spot (Zool.), any butterfly of the family Melitaeidae having crescent-shaped white spots along the margins of the red or brown wings. -- Spot lens (Microscopy), a condensing lens in which the light is confined to an annular pencil by means of a small, round diaphragm (the spot), and used in dark-field illumination; -- called also spotted lens. -- Spot rump (Zool.), the Hudsonian godwit (Limosa haemastica). -- Spots on the sun. (Astron.) See Sun spot, ander Sun. -- On the spot, or Upon the spot, immediately; before moving; without changing place; as, “he made his decision on the spot”.
It was determined upon the spot. Swift.
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Syn. -- Stain; flaw; speck; blot; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish; place; site; locality.
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