A spot; a stain; a blemish. Frequently figurative: a moral stain or taint. Obsolete.

Staining or soiling; the fact of being soiled or stained; a stain or discolouring mark.

A black or dirty mark; a stain; a smudge.

An act of sullying, soiling, or polluting (literal and figurative); a stain, blemish.

A dirty mark; a spot of dirt; (also) a blemish. Also as a mass noun: dirt; grime; filth. Also figurative. Chiefly Scottish and English regional…

A black mark or stain; a smudge. Also figurative.

A dirty mark or smear; a stain; a smudge; also, that which smirches or dirties.

English regional. Mud, mire; a spot or taint; damage caused by touch. Now rare.

colloquial and humorous. A dirty mark showing the limit to which a person has washed.

A smudge, a dirty mark.

The mark left or reached by the tide at high or (rarely) low water; by extension, the mark left by a river flood. Also, a post or the like set up to…