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Definition of Speck

1. Noun. A very small spot. "The plane was just a speck in the sky"

2. Verb. Produce specks in or on. "Speck the cloth"

3. Noun. (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything.

4. Noun. A slight but appreciable amount. "This dish could use a touch of garlic"

Definition of Speck

1. n. The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.

2. n. 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.

3. v. t. 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.

Definition of Speck

1. Noun. A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc. ¹

2. Noun. A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To mark with specks; to speckle. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Speck

1. to mark with small spots [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Speck

1. 1. A small discoloured place in or on anything, or a small place of a colour 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." 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. A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmaea) common in the Eastern United States. Origin: OE. Spekke, AS. Specca; cf. LG. Spaak. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Speck

specimen screen specimen stage specimens specimina speciose speciosities speciosity specious specious argument speciously

speciousness speciousnesses specism specist specists speck (current term) speck finger specked speckier speckiest

speckiness specking speckle speckled speckled-belly speckled-bill speckled alder speckled carpetshark speckled rattlesnake speckled trout

Literary usage of Speck

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fungous Diseases of Plants: With Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"Garden and Forest 9: 474-475- SELBY, AD Sooty Fungus and Fly speck Fungus. Ohio Agl. Exp. Sta. Built. 79: 133-134. STURGIS, WC On the Cause and Prevention ..."

2. Fungous Diseases of Plants: With Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"According to the unpublished observations of Floyd the sooty blotch and fly speck are apparently stages of the same fungus. They are almost invariably ..."

3. The Civil War in Song and Story: 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1889)
"Ну this time every staff officer and hundreds of others were looking at the moving speck. It is impossible to describe the anxiety felt and expressed for ..."

4. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1873)
"Nor is this indication of an electrical traveller the only age which may be made of the galvanometer speck. You are aware that the extent of deviation of ..."

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