What is the definition of Specillum?

SPECILLUM

\spɛsˈɪləm], \spɛsˈɪləm], \s_p_ɛ_s_ˈɪ_l_ə_m]\

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1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
By William R. Warner

sp[=e]-sil'um, n. a surgical probe: a lens, eyeglass. [L.,--spec[)e]re, to look.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

Everriculum, Hypaleiptron, Sound -s. Auricularium, Apyromele- s. Cereum, Bougie-s. Excavatum, Stylus excavatus-s. Latum, Spatula-s. Minus, Melotis.
A surgical instrument, employed for examining wounds, fistulas, and for passing setons, Ac. It is usually formed of silver; and is terminated, at one end, by an olive-shaped button. The eyed probe has an aperture at the other extremity.

1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
By Robley Dunglison

1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
By Alexander Duane

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.