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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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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