To show, mark, or designate the species, or the distinguishing particulars of; to specify.

The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits.

The quality or state of being specific.

To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased.

See Stylet, 2.

A part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number of things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of what is not exhibited; a sample; as, a specimen of a man's handwriting; a specimen of a person's blood; a specimen of painting; aspecimen of one's art.

The quality or state of being specious; speciousness.

Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or look; showy.

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.

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.

Marked or variegated with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface.

The gadwall.

The American white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons).

The quality of being speckled.

The chief harpooner, who also directs in cutting up the speck, or blubber; -- so called among whalers.

A woodpecker. See Speight.

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.

Furnished with spectacles; wearing spectacles.

Of or pertaining to a shows; of the nature of a show.

Looking forward.

Regard; aspect; appearance.

One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show.

Of or pertaining to a spectator.

The office or quality of a spectator.

A female beholder or looker-on.

Same as Specsioneer.

Of or pertaining to a specter; ghosty.

In the form or manner of a specter.

See Specter.

Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom.

A combination of spectroscope and bolometer for determining the distribution of energy in a spectrum.

Pert. to or designating any form of spark tube the electric discharge within which is used in spectroscopic observations.

A photograph, map, or diagram of a spectrum.

An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum. A photograph or picture of a spectrum.

A photograph of the sun made by monochromatic light, usually of the calcium line (k), and showing the sun's faculae and prominences.

An apparatus for making spectroheliograms, consisting of a spectroscopic camera used in combination with a telescope, and provided with clockwork for moving the sun's image across the slit.

Of or pertaining to spectrology; as, spectrological studies or experiments.

The science of spectrum analysis in any or all of its relations and applications.

A spectroscope fitted for measurements of the luminious spectra observed with it.

Art or process of using a spectrometer, of any type; -- when used alone, it usually refers to the use of a spectrometer using light in the visible, infrared, or ultraviolet region.

An instrument constructed on the principle of the photophone and used in spectrum analysis as an adjunct to the spectroscope.

An instrument for measuring or comparing the intensities of the colors of the spectrum.

The art of comparing, photometrically, the brightness of two spectra, wave length by wave length; the use of the spectrophotometer.

An optical instrument for forming and examining spectra (as that of solar light, or those produced by flames in which different substances are volatilized), so as to determine, from the position of the spectral lines, the composition of the substance.

Of or pertaining to a spectroscope, or spectroscopy.

One who investigates by means of a spectroscope; one skilled in the use of the spectroscope.

the art and science dealing with the use of a spectroscope, and the production and analysis of spectra; the action of using a spectroscope.

An apparition; a specter.

Having the qualities of a speculum, or mirror; having a smooth, reflecting surface; as, a specular metal; a specular surface.

To consider attentively; as, to speculate the nature of a thing.

The act of speculating.

One who speculates, or forms theories; a speculator; a theorist.

Given to speculation; contemplative.

One who speculates. Specifically: (a) An observer; a contemplator; hence, a spy; a watcher.

Speculatory; speculative.

Intended or adapted for viewing or espying; having oversight.

One who observes or considers; an observer.

A mirror, or looking-glass; especially, a metal mirror, as in Greek and Roman archaeology.

imp. p. p. of Speed.

Species; sort.

Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.

The act of speechifying.

One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer.

To make a speech; to harangue.

The act of making a speech or speeches.

The act of making a speech.

Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech.

One who makes speeches; one accustomed to speak in a public assembly.

To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor.

One who, or that which, speeds.

Full of speed (in any sense).

In a speedful manner.

In a speedy manner.

The quality or state of being speedy.

Being without speed.

Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off.

Not dilatory or slow; quick; swift; nimble; hasty; rapid in motion or performance; as, a speedy flight; on speedy foot.

To ask.

To stab.

A woodpecker; -- called also specht, spekt, spight.

To ask. See Spere.

Smaltite.

A regulus consisting essentially of nickel, obtained as a residue in fusing cobalt and nickel ores with silica and sodium carbonate to make smalt.

The purslane tree of South Africa, -- said to be the favorite food of elephants.

To speak.

The parlor or reception room of a convent.

A haddock or other small fish split open and dried in the sun; -- called also speldron.

See Spilikin.

A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter.

To form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing.

Capable of being spelt.

To bind or hold by, or as if by, a spell or charm; to entrance or fascinate, esp. by eloquence of speech, as in a political campaign.

Bound by, or as by, a spell.

One who spells.

Abounding in spells, or charms.

Of or pertaining to spelling.

A theater.

Power or effect of magic; that which is wrought by magic; enchantment.

To split; to break; to spalt.

Zinc; -- especially so called in commerce and arts.

A cavern; a cave.

A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry.

A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802].

To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.

One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.

The act of expending; expenditure.

Prodigal; extravagant; wasteful.

Spendthrift; prodigal.

Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem /The Fa/rie Queene./

Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.

See Sperable.

Asperagus.

Hoped for, or to be hoped for.

A sphere.

A charge of wash for the still.

A smelt; a sparling. A young herring.

Spermaceti.

A white waxy substance obtained from cavities in the head of the sperm whale, and used making candles, oilments, cosmetics, etc. It consists essentially of ethereal salts of palmitic acid with ethal and other hydrocarbon bases. The substance of spermaceti after the removal of certain impurities is sometimes called cetin.

See Spermist.

That part of the ovary from which the ovules arise; the placenta.