Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Speck"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
speck
n 1: a very small spot; "the plane was just a speck in the sky"
[syn: {pinpoint}]
2: (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything [syn: {atom},
{molecule}, {particle}, {mote}]
3: a small but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch
of garlic" [syn: {touch}, {hint}, {mite}, {pinch}, {jot},
{soupcon}]
v : produce specks in or on
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