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.
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. (Zoöl.) A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmæa) common in the Eastern United
States.
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.
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