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speck |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Speck \Speck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Specked}; p. pr & vb n. {Specking}.] To cause the presence of specks upon or in especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture. Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold. --Milton. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Speck \Speck\, n. [Cf. Icel. spik blubber, AS spic, D. spek, G. speck.] The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also the fat of the hippopotamus. {Speck falls} (Naut.), falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Speck \Speck\, n. [OE. spekke, AS specca cf LG spaak.] 1. A small discolored place in or on anything or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit. ``Gray sand, with black specks.'' --Anson. 2. A very small thing a particle; a mite; as specks of dust; he has not a speck of money. Many bright specks bubble up along the blue Egean. --Landor. 3. (Zo["o]l.) A small etheostomoid fish ({Ulocentra stigm[ae]a}) common in the Eastern United States. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: speck n 1: a very small spot; "the plane was just a speck in the sky" [syn: {pinpoint}] 2: (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything [syn: {atom}, {molecule}, {particle}, {mote}] 3: a small but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic" [syn: {touch}, {hint}, {mite}, {pinch}, {jot}, {soupcon}] v : produce specks in or on
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