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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"

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"

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.

n. [Anglo-Saxon, German] A spot; a stain ; - a small place in any thing that is discoloured by foreign matter, or is of a colour different from that of the main substance;-a very small thing; mote;-flaw; blemish; blot.