SPage 415
- English Word Speciosity Definition That which is specious.
- English Word Specious Definition Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or look; showy.
- English Word Specious Definition Apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct, but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument.
- English Word Speck Definition The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.
- English Word Speck Definition 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.
- English Word Speck Definition A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.
- English Word Speck Definition A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmaea) common in the Eastern United States.
- English Word Speck Definition 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.
- English Word Specked Definition of Speck
- English Word Specking Definition of Speck
- English Word Speckle Definition A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself.
- English Word Speckle Definition To mark with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface; to variegate with spots of a different color from the ground or surface.
- English Word Speckled Definition of Speckle
- English Word Speckled Definition Marked or variegated with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface.
- English Word Speckled-belly Definition The gadwall.
- English Word Speckled-bill Definition The American white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons).
- English Word Speckledness Definition The quality of being speckled.
- English Word Speckling Definition of Speckle
- English Word Specksioneer Definition The chief harpooner, who also directs in cutting up the speck, or blubber; -- so called among whalers.
- English Word Speckt Definition A woodpecker. See Speight.
- English Word Specollum Definition See Stylet, 2.
- English Word Spectacle Definition Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant; a gazingstock.
- English Word Spectacle Definition A spy-glass; a looking-glass.
- English Word Spectacle Definition An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light.
- English Word Spectacle Definition Fig.: An aid to the intellectual sight.
- English Word Spectacled Definition Furnished with spectacles; wearing spectacles.
- English Word Spectacled Definition Having the eyes surrounded by color markings, or patches of naked skin, resembling spectacles.
- English Word Spectacular Definition Of or pertaining to a shows; of the nature of a show.
- English Word Spectacular Definition Adapted to excite wonder and admiration by a display of pomp or of scenic effects; as, a spectacular celebration of some event; a spectacular play.
- English Word Spectacular Definition Pertaining to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.