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Pronunciation : Speck
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Cf. Icel. spik blubber, AS. spic, D. spek, G. speck.]
Definition : Defn: 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Speck
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OE. spekke, AS. specca; cf. LG. spaak.]
Definition : 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. (Zo?l.)

Defn: A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigm?a) common in the Eastern United States.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Speck
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: 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.

t. [imp. & p. p. Specked; p. pr. & vb. n. Specking.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913