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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Specter \Spec"ter\, Spectre \Spec"tre\, n. [F. spectre, fr L.
spectrum an appearance, image, specter, fr specere to look
See {Spy}, and cf {Spectrum}.]
1. Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost;
a phantom.
The ghosts of traitors from the bridge descend, With
bold fanatic specters to rejoice. --Dryden.
2. (Zo["o]l.)
a The tarsius.
b A stick insect.
{Specter bat} (Zo["o]l.), any phyllostome bat.
{Specter candle} (Zo["o]l.), a belemnite.
{Specter shrimp} (Zo["o]l.), a skeleton shrimp. See under
{Skeleton}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
specter
n 1: a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he
looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters
from his past" [syn: {ghost}, {shade}, {spook}, {wraith},
{spectre}]
2: an unusual appearing ghostly figure; "we were unprepared for
the apparition that confronted us" [syn: {apparition}, {phantom},
{spectre}]
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