Hypertext Webster Gateway: "specter"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Specter \Spec"ter\, Spectre \Spec"tre\, n. [F. spectre, fr. L.
spectrum an appearance, image, specter, fr. specere to look.
See {Spy}, and cf. {Spectrum}.]
1. Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost;
a phantom.
The ghosts of traitors from the bridge descend, With
bold fanatic specters to rejoice. --Dryden.
2. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The tarsius.
(b) A stick insect.
{Specter bat} (Zo["o]l.), any phyllostome bat.
{Specter candle} (Zo["o]l.), a belemnite.
{Specter shrimp} (Zo["o]l.), a skeleton shrimp. See under
{Skeleton}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
specter
n 1: a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he
looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters
from his past" [syn: {ghost}, {shade}, {spook}, {wraith},
{spectre}]
2: a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the
apparition that confronted us" [syn: {apparition}, {phantom},
{spectre}]
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