a slight but appreciable addition; " this dish could use a touch of garlic"

a very small spot; " the plane was just a speck in the sky"

produce specks in or on; " speck the cloth"

The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.

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.

A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.

A spot; flaw; blemish; spot of decay, as in fruit; a very small thing; particle.

To spot, or stain with small spots; speckle.

A spot: a blemish.

To spot.

A spot; blemish.

A spot; a stain; a blomish; a very small thing.

Blubber, as of whales.

To spot; to stain in spots or drops.

A stain; a spot; a blemish; anything very small.

To stain in spots or drops.

It rose vertically until we could see it only as a speck in the blue of the morning sky- a speck vanishing to the north over the Pole. – Tarrano the Conqueror by Raymond King Cummings

When you return to the university, get hold of some books on the means by which all the various kinds of living creatures in the world are kept on an even balance, how they all get their food, and how every tiny speck fits into the whole world scheme. – The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

The human eye could see it then- that dainty little speck. – Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens by Albert Bigelow Paine Last Updated: February 20, 2009

The war- canoe was so far behind us that it seemed but a little speck on the sea, and the shouts to which the crew occasionally gave vent came faintly towards us on the morning breeze. – The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne

What an awful carpet this red one must be to sweep, showing every speck! – Saturday's Child by Kathleen Norris

As a speck of dust is to a planet, and as a star is to the vast universe, so is man to the world in which he lives'. – Standards of Life and Service by T. H. Howard

And when came noon, And we climbed sky- high, Jim was a speck Slip - slipping by. – Peacock Pie, A Book of Rhymes by Walter de la Mare

What is that red speck above Stilbro' Brow? – Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

There isn't a speck of soda. – Opportunities by Susan Warner

As they walked side by side along the stagnant waters, she was sending inaudible messages of this sort towards her aunt; she had even selected the particular mauve speck at the top of the steps which might be Mrs. Marshall- Smith. – The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield

A light speck appeared on the horizon between the dark waters and the azure heaven. – Peter Schlemihl by Adelbert von Chamisso

God is nowhere; fellow- man in the way like a buzzing fly- else no more to be regarded than a speck of dust neither upon his person nor his garment. – The Flight of the Shadow by George MacDonald

Then the launch became a speck against a gray coast. – A Republic Without a President and Other Stories by Herbert Ward

It is a mere speck in his heaven; but he would have liked Prue to have been glad too. – Doctor Cupid by Rhoda Broughton

Yet Corinne watched him when he sat down on a bank to rest; she watched him grow a mere bunch and battered hat, and then fade to a speck. – Old Caravan Days by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

When they could no longer see the white net cap, which showed as a speck through the leaves where the old woman was-" Caroline!" – A Second Home by Honore de Balzac

Close examination shows that there is always a small speck of a foreign body at the centre of the circle, and it is often possible to identify the nature of this central substance, small though it be. – The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by J. (John) Joly

He had been tolerated by the cattle- men, as his flock was but a speck on the limitless mesas. – Sundown Slim by Henry Hubert Knibbs

When the sail of the yacht had grown like a gray speck in the distance, she was put about, and at a sharp angle ran to the rude pier of Penruthyn Priory, whence taking his gun as if for a ramble in the warren, he told his men to expect him in about two hours, at the turn of the tide. – The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu