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Definition of Specking
1. speck [v] - See also: speck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Specking
Literary usage of Specking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Plant Diseases by Paul Sorauer, Gustav Lindau, Ludwig Reh, Frances Dorrance (1922)
"specking OF ORCHIDS. A special illustration of the advantages of the use of
sphagnum, described in the previous division, is found in the peculiar black ..."
2. Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri by Missouri State Horticultural Society (1893)
"GRACE specking. The above letter was received from Mrs. specking with a case of
birds put up in ... specking a year or more ago, and his wife Las filled his ..."
3. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1902)
"Г. specking of back cinnamon brown .... cinnamomeus, p. 98. 1. ... Youny : specking
of back buffy. and dusky of chest and sides tinged with buff, ll'ing: 4. ..."
4. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1921)
"specking of back cinnamon brown .... cinnamomeus, p. ... Young: specking of back
buffy, and dusky of chest and sides tinged with Distribution. ..."
5. Dr. Chase's Recipes: Or, Information for Everybody; an Invaluable Collection by Alvin Wood Chase, William Wesley Cook (1920)
"... saving a little of the whitewash without color, to pencil the seams and also
for specking, as mentioned below. The colors used are lampblack. ..."
6. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1899)
"The search for the particles of gold scattered over the surface is called "
specking." In the early days hundreds of ounces were thus picked up in a few ..."
7. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1902)
"specking of back cinnamon brown .... cinnamomeus, p. 98. ... specking of back
huffy, and dusky of chest and sides tinged with buff. Wing; 4.fvj-5.1!l. tail ..."
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