Hypertext Webster Gateway: "spectacled"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Spectacled \Spec"ta*cled\, a.
1. Furnished with spectacles; wearing spectacles.

As spectacled she sits in chimney nook. --Keats.

2. (Zo["o]l.) Having the eyes surrounded by color markings,
or patches of naked skin, resembling spectacles.

{Spectacled bear} (Zo["o]l.), a South American bear
({Tremarclos ornatus}) which inhabits the high mountains
of Chili and Peru. It has a light-colored ring around each
eye.

{Spectacled coot}, or {Spectacled duck} (Zo["o]l.), the surf
scoter, or surf duck. [Local, U.S.]

{Spectacled eider} (Zo["o]l.) See {Eider}.

{Spectacled goose} (Zo["o]l.), the gannet.

{Spectacled snake} (Zo["o]l.), the cobra de capello.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

spectacled
adj : wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an
eyeglass; "a bespectacled grandmother"; "the monocled
gentleman" [syn: {bespectacled}, {monocled}]


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