speckless 
There gleamed resplendent in the dimness of the comer 
a complete and apecklfss pewter dinner service. 
Jfeui Princeton Ilev., II. 111. 
speck-moth (spek'moth), . One of certain 
geometrid moths, MEupithecia milifiilnita, the 
tawny speck: an English collectors' name. 
specktioneer (ipek-sno-ner'), . [Also speek- 
xioitcer; appar. orig. a humorous term, irreg. < 
speck'- + -lion + -ecr (witli allusion to inspec- 
tion and engineer).] In \ohale-flshing. the chief 
harpooner: so called as being the director of 
the cutting operations in clearing the whale of 
its speck or blubber and bones. 
In a rough, careless way, they spoke of the 
specky (spek'i), . [< speck* + -yl.] Having 
specks or spots ; slightly or partially spotted. 
The tonsils were full, and the left one specky. 
Lancet, No. 3494, p. 334. 
specs, specks (speks), n. pi. A colloquial con- 
traction of spectacles. 
spectablet (spek'ta-bl), a. [ME. spectable, < OF. 
spectable = Sp. espectable = Pg. espectavel = It. 
spettabile, notable, remarkable, < L. spectabilis, 
that may be seen, visible, admirable, < spectare, 
see, behold : see spectacle.] That may be seen ; 
visible; observable. 
Ther are in hem certayne signes spectable, 
Which is to eschewe, and which is profitable. 
PaUadius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 128. 
Their [the Pharisees'] prayers were at the corners of 
streets ; such corners where divers streets met, and so 
more spectable to many passengers. 
Jtn. T. Adams, Works, I. 104. (Dames.) 
taculo = It. spettacolo = D. spektakel, spectacle, 
show, = G. Dan. spektakel, noise, uproar, = Sw. 
spektakel, spectacle, noise, < L. spectaculum, a 
show, spectacle, < spectare, see, behold, freq. of 
specere, see: see species.] 1. An exhibition; ex- 
posure to sight or view ; an open display; also, 
a thing looked at or to be looked at; a sight; a 
gazing-stock ; a show ; especially, a deplorable 
exhibition. 
A Donghill of dead carcases he spyde, 
The dreadf ull spectacle of that sad house of Pryde. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. T. 53. 
So exquisitly was it [a crucifix] form'd that It represented 
in a very lively manner the lamentable spectacle of our 
Lord's Body, as it hung upon the Cross. 
Maundrell, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 72. 
How much we forgive in those who yield us the rare 
spectacle of heroic manners ! Emerson, Conduct of Life. 
2. Specifically, a public show or display for the 
gratification of the eye; something designed 
or arranged to attract and entertain spectators ; 
a pageant; a parade: as, a royal or a religious 
spectacle ; a military or a dramatic spectacle. 
The stately semi-religious spectacle in which the Greeks 
delighted. J. Fergusson, Hist. Arch., I. 324. 
In the winter season the circus used to amalgamate 
with a dramatic company, and make a joint appearance in 
equestrian spectacles. J. Jefferson, Autobiog., iii. 
3f. A looking-glass; a mirror. 4f. A spy- 
glass ; a speculum. 
Poverte a spectacle is, as thynketh me, 
Thurgh whiche he may hise verray frendes see. 
Chaucer, Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 347. 
5. pi. A pair of lenses set in a frame adjusted 
to the eyes, to correct or improve defective 
vision; also, sometimes, a similar frame with 
pieces of plain white or colored glass to pro- 
tect the eyes from glare or dust: commonly 
called a pair of spectacles. The frame was in former 
times usually of horn or tortoise-shell, and afterward of 
,A c 
n 
Spectacles. 
A, spectacles with bows hinged to the shoulders on the rims con- 
nected by the nose or bridge. B, spectacles with hook-bows and with 
bridge and shoulders riveted to the lenses. C, detail showing con- 
struction of shoulder. D, side view, showing rim. In all the figures : 
n, bows; *, shoulders; c t rims; d t bridge. 
andl "sides " or "temples"; but the bows are now often 
omitted. The frame is so constructed and adjusted as to 
rest on the nose and ears and hold the lenses in the proper 
position. Spectacles which are supported on the nose 
only, by means of a spring, are commonly called eye-glasses, 
Spectacles with convex lenses are for the aged, or far- 
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son's vision. Spectacles with colored lenses, as green 
blue, neutral-tint, or smoke-color, arc used to protect the 
eyes from a glare uf light. Dintled tprclaclfs have each 
lens composed of two parts of different foci neatly united, 
one part for observing distant uliii-c-ts, and the other for 
examining objects near the eye. Another kind, called peri- 
scopic spectacles, are intended to allow the eyes consider- 
able latitude of motion without fatigue. The lensis mi- 
ployed in this case are of either a meniscus or a concavo- 
convex form, the concave side being turned to the eye. 
Spectacled with glazed wings or frames partly filled with 
crape or wire gauze are used to shield the eyes from 
He [Lord Crawford] sat upon a couch covered with 
deer's hide, and with spectacles on his nose (then a recent 
invention) was laboring to read a huge manuscript called 
the Rosier de la Guerre. Scott, Quentin Durwaid, vii. 
6. pi. Figuratively, visual aids of any kind, 
ts of or assis- 
;; also, instru- 
spectatorial 
which is a variety of the s/iHfiiti-ii, a : 
shart-t'uni.-icc of which the MMntial peculiarity 
is that the melted material runs out upon the 
inclined bottom of the furnace into a crucible- 
like receptacle or pot outside and in front of 
the furnace-stack. This sort of furnace has been 
used at Munsfeld and in the Uarz, but apparently not in 
:ui> I'riglish-speaking country. 
spectacle-gage (spek'ta-kl-gaj), n. A device 
spectacle-glass (spck'tji-kl-glas), n. 1. 
suited for making spectacles; optical glass. 
2. A lens of the kind or form used in spectacles. 
3t. A field-glass; a telescope. 
to the shadow-vane of 
perception: as, rose-colored spectacles; I can- 
not see things with your spectacles. 
And even with this I lost fair England's view, 
And bid mine eyes be packing with my heart, 
And call'd them blind and dusky spectacles, 
For losing ken of Albion's wished coast. 
Shale., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 2. 112. 
Subjects are to look upon the faults of princes with the 
spectacles of obedience and reverence to their place and 
persons. Donne, Sermons, ii. 
Shakespeare . . . was naturally learn 'd; he needed not 
Aubrey, Lives (Edmund Halley). 
spectacle-maker (spek'ta-kl-ma"ker), . A 
maker of spectacles; one who makes spectacles, 
eye-glasses, and similar instruments. TheSpec- 
of * 
Dryden, Essay on Dram. Poesy (1693), p. 31. 
7 - P l ? * l -> a marking resembling a pair of 
spectacles, especially about the eyes: as, the 
* 
spectacle-ornament (spek'ta-kl-6r'na-ment), 
n. A name given to an ornament, often found 
in sculptured stones in Scotland, consisting of 
two disks connected by a band : the surface so 
marked out is often covered with interlaced 
whorl-ornaments. 
spectacular (spek-tak'u-lar), a. [< L. spectacv- 
lum, a sight, show (see spectacle), + -ar 3 .] 1. 
Pertaining to or of the nature of a show or spec- 
tacle; marked or characterized by great dis- 
play: as, a spectacular drama. 
The spectacular sports i 
A pair of white spectacles OH the eyes, and whitish about 
base of bill. Coues, Key to N. A. Birds, p. 815. 
Compound spectacles, (a) Spectacles fitted for receiv- 
ing extra colored glasses, or to which additional lenses 
can be attached to vary the power. (6) A form of specta- 
cles having in each bow two half glasses differing in power 
or character; divided spectacles. See def. 6. Franklin 
spectacles. Same as pantoscopic spectacles (which see, 
under pantoscopic). 
spectacled (spek'ta-kld), a. [< spectacle + -e<&.] 
1 . Furnished witn or wearing spectacles. 
The bleared sights 
Are spectacled to see him. Shak., Cor., II. 1. 222. 
Porphyro upon her face doth look, 
Like puzzled urchin on an aged crone 
Who keepeth closed a wondrous riddle-book, 
As spectacled she sits in chimney-nook. 
Keats, Eve of St. Agnes, xv. 
In zool. : (a) Marked in any way that sug- 
its spectacles or the wearing of spectacles : 
as.thespectactedbearorcobra. (6) Spectable or 
spectacular; being " a sight to behold "; spec- 
tral: as, the spectacled shrimp Spectacled bear, 
Ursus or Tremarctos ornatus, the only South American 
Spectacled Bear (Tremarctos 
pends upon their being accurately adapted to the per- 
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bear, having a light-colored mark on the face, like a pair 
of spectacles. Spectacled cobra, any specimen of the 
common Indian cobra, Naja tripudianx, which has the 
markings of the back of the hood well developed so as to 
resemble a pair of spectacles. See cut under cobra-de- 
copeHo. Spectacled coot, spectacled duck, the surf- 
scoter or -i lurk. (Edemia perspicillaia ; the goggle-nose. 
[Connecticut. ] Spectacled eider, Somateria (Arcto- 
America, having in the male the eyes set in silvery-white 
plumage rimmed with black. Spectacled goose, guil- 
lemot, snake, stenoderni. See thenouns. Spectacled 
shrimp, the specter- or skeleton-shrimp, a caprellid. See 
Caprella. Spectacled vampire. Same as spectacled 
stenoderm. 
pectacled-headed (spek'ta-kld-hed*ed), a. 
Having the head spectacled': applied to flies of 
the genera Holcocephala (family Asilidse) and 
Diopsis and Sphyracephala (family Diopsidx). 
See cut under Diopsis. 
A queer-looking, spectacled-headed, predatory fly. . . . 
The head is unusually broad in front, the eyes being very 
prominent and presenting a spectacled or goggled appear- 
ance. C. H. Tyler Townsend, Proc. Entom. Soc. 
[of Washington, I. 264. 
spectacle-furnace (spek'ta-kl-f6rnas), . A 
literal translation of the German brillenofen, 
2. Pertaining to spectacles or glasses for as- 
sisting vision. [Rare.] 
spectacularity (spek-tak-u-lar'i-ti), n. [< spec- 
tacular + -ity.] Spectacular character or qual- 
ity ; likeness to or the fact of being a spectacle 
or show. 
It must be owned that when all was done the place 
had a certain spectacularity ; the furniture and ornaments 
wore somehow the air of properties. 
Bowells, Private Theatricals, x. 
spectacularly (spek-tak'u-liir-li), adv. In a 
spectacular manner or view ; as a spectacle. 
The last test was, spectacularly, the best of the afternoon. 
Sci. Amer., N. S., LVII. 360. 
spectant (spek'tant), . [< L. spectan(t-)s, ppr. 
of spectare, loot at, behold, freq. of specere, 
look at, behold : see spectacle, species.] In her. : 
(a) At gaze. (6) Looking upward with the 
nose bendwise : noting any animal used as a 
bearing. 
spectate (spek'tat), v. t. and i. [< L. spectatus, 
pp. of spectare, see, behold : see spectant.] To 
look about or upon ; gaze ; beholof. [Obsolete 
or archaic.] 
Coming on the Bridge, a Gentleman sitting on the Coach 
civilly salutes the Spectating Company ; the turning of the 
Wheels and motion of the Horses are plainly seen as if 
natural and Alive. 
Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne. 
[I. 287. 
Mr. De Quincey Works, VI. 329 has spectate: and 
who can believe that he went anywhere but to spectare 
for it? F. Hall, False Philol., p. 76. 
spectation (spek-ta'shon), . [< L. specta- 
tio(n-), a beholding, contemplation, < spectare, 
Ep. spectatus, look at, behold: see spectant.] 
ook ; aspect ; appearance ; regard. 
This simple spectation of the lungs is differenced from 
that which concomitates a pleurisy. Harvey. 
spectator (spek-ta'tor), n. [Early mod. E. spec- 
tatour; < F. spectateur = Sp. Pg. espectador = 
It. spettatore, < L. spectator, a beholder, < spec- 
tare, pp. spectatus, look at, behold: see spec- 
tan t.] One who looks on ; an onlooker or eye- 
witness ; a beholder ; especially, one of a com- 
pany present at a spectacle of any kind: as, 
the spectators of or at a game or a drama. 
Me leading, in a secret corner layd, 
The sad spectatour of my Tragedfe. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. 4. 27. 
There be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on 
some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too. 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 2. 46. 
We, Indeed, appeared to be the only two unconcerned 
spectators on board ; and, accordingly, were allowed to 
ramble about the decks unnoticed. 
B. Hall, Travels in N. A., II. 10. 
=Syn. Looker-on, onlooker, observer, witness, by-stand- 
er. A person is said to be a spectator at a show, a bull- 
fight, a wrestling-match ; one of the audience at a lecture, 
a concert, the theater ; and one of the congregation at 
church. 
spectatorial (spek-ta-to'ri-al), a. [< spectator 
+ -ial.] Pertaining' to or characteristic of a 
spectator. [In the quotation it is used with 
