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teth loose the guard of individuals or single existencies. 
Brown. 
For we are animals no less, 
Although of different species. Iludihras . 
Appearance to the senses; any visible or sensible repre¬ 
sentation.—An apparent diversity between the species visible 
and audible is, that the visible doth not mingle in the 
medium, but the audible doth. Bacon. —Representation to 
the mind.—Wit in the poet, or wit-writing, is no other than 
the faculty of imagination in the writer, which searches over 
all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which 
it designs to represent. Dry den. —Show •, visible exhibi¬ 
tion. Not in use; and perhaps, in the following quota¬ 
tion, misprinted for spectacles. —Shews and species serve 
best with the people. Bacon. —Circulating money.—As 
there was in the splendour of the Roman empire a less 
quantity of current species in Europe than there is now, 
Rome possessed a much greater proportion of the circulating 
species of its time than any European city. Arbuthnot. — 
Simples that have place in a compound medicine. 
SPECI'FICAL, or Speci'fic, adj. [specifique, French; 
species and facio, Lat.j That makes a thing of the species 
of which it is. 
That thou to truth the perfect way may’st know. 
To thee all her specif c forms I’ll show. Denham. 
Specific gravity is the appropriate and peculiar gravity or 
weight which any species of natural bodies have, and by 
which they are plainly distinguishable from all other bodies 
of different kinds. Suincy. —Appropriated to the cure of 
some particular distemper. It is usually applied to the 
arcana, or medicines that work by occult qualities.—The 
operation of purging medicines have been referred to a 
hidden property, a specifical virtue, and the like shifts of 
ignorance. Bacon. 
SPECI'FIC, s. A specific. medicine.—If she would 
drink a good decoction of sarsa, with the usual specifics, 
she might enjoy a good health. Wiseman. 
SPECPFICALLY, adv. In such a manner as to consti¬ 
tute a species; according to the nature of the species.—He 
must allow that bodies were endowed with the same affec¬ 
tions then as ever since; and that, if an axeh ead be sup¬ 
posed to float upon water which is specifically lighter, it 
had been supernatural. Bentley. 
To SPECI'FICATE, v. a. [facio, Lat.] To mark by 
notation of distinguishing particularities—Man, by the 
instituted law of his creation, and the common influence of 
the divine goodness, is enabled to act as a reasonable crea¬ 
ture, without any particular, specificating, concurrent, new 
imperate act of the divine special providence. Hale. 
SPECIFICATION, s. Distinct notation; determina¬ 
tion by a peculiar mark.—This specification or limitation 
of the question hinders the disputes from wandering away 
from the precise point of enquiry. Watts. —Particular 
mention.—The constitution here speaks generally without 
the specification of any place. Ay/ifi'e. 
To SPE'CIFY, v. a. [specifier, Fr.] To mention; to 
show by some particular marks of distinction.—As the 
change of such laws as have been specified is necessary, so 
the evidence that they are such must be great. Hooker. 
SPECILLUM, a probe. 
SPE'CIMEN, s. [specimen, Lat.] A sample; a part of 
any thing exhibited, that the rest may be known.—Several 
persons have exhibited specimens of this art before multi¬ 
tudes of beholders. Addison. 
SPE'CIOUS, adj. [specieux, Fr., speciosus, Lat.] 
Showy; pleasing to the view.—Divers sorts are of them, 
[serpents:] some specious and beautiful to the eye. Bp. 
Richardson. —Plausible ; superficially, not solidly right; 
striking at first view.—This is the only specious objection 
which our Romish adversaries urge against the doctrine of 
this church in the point of celibacy. Atterbury. 
SPE'CIOUSLY, adv. With fair appearance.—Piety is 
opposed to hypocrisy and insincerity; especially to that 
personated devotion under which any kind of impiety is 
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wont to be disguised, and put off more speciously. Ham¬ 
mond. 
SPE'CIOUSNESS, s. The state or quality of being 
specious. Ash. 
SPECK, s. [rpecca, Sax.] A small discoloration; a 
spot.—Every speck does not blind a man. Gbv. of the 
Tongue. 
To SPECK, v. a. To spot; to stain in drops. 
Each flower— 
Carnation, purple, azure or speck'd with gold. Milton. 
SPECKIIAVEN, a harbour on the west coast of West 
Greenland. Lat. 64. N. long. 49. 40. W. 
SPE'CKLE, s. Small speck; little spot. 
To SPE'CKLE, v. a. To mark with small spots. 
So dreadfully towards him did pass, 
Fore lifting up aloft his speckled breast. 
And often bounding on the bruised grass. 
As for great joy of his new comen guest. Spenser. 
Speckled vanity 
Will sicken soon and die. 
And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould. Milton. 
SPE'CKLEDNESS, s. State or quality of being 
speckled. Ash. 
SPECKT, or Spreight, s. A woodpecker. See Speoht. 
SPECTABILES, among the Romans, a title of honour 
given to the second rank, or degree of nobility, under the 
Roman emperors. 
SPECTACLE, s. [spectacle, Fr., spectaculum, Lat.] 
A show; a gazing stock ; any thing exhibited to the view 
as eminently remarkable. 
In open place produc’d they me. 
To be a public spectacle to all. Shakspeare. 
We are made a spectacle unto angels and men. 1 Cor. 
—Any thing perceived by the sight. 
Forth riding underneath the castle wall, 
A dunghill of dead carcases he spy’d. 
The dreadful spectacle of that sad house of pride. Spenser. 
Glasses to assist the sight. 
The sixth age shifts 
Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon. 
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side. Shakspeare. 
SPE'CTACLED, adj. Furnished with spectacles. 
All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights 
Are spectacled to see him. Shakspeare. 
SPECTA'CULAR, adj. Relating to spectacles or shows. 
—The spectacular sports were concluded. Dr. Hickes. 
SPECTA'TION, s. [spectatio, Lat.] Regard; respect. 
—This simple spectation of the lungs is differenced from 
that which concomitates a pleurisy. Harvey. 
SPECTATOR, s. [spectateur, Fr., spectator, Lat.] A 
looker-on; a beholder. 
More 
Than history can pattern, though devis’d 
And play’d, to take spectators. Shakspeare . 
SPECTA'TORSHIP, s. Act of beholding. — Thou 
stand’st i’ th’ state of hanging, or of some death more long 
in spectatorship, and crueller in suffering. Shakspeare .— 
Office or quality of a spectator.—Your first rudimental essays 
in spectatorship were made in my shop, where you often 
practised for hours. Spectator. 
SPECTATRESS, or Spectatrix, s. [spectatrix, Lat. 
This form in English is given by Cotgrave under the French 
term spectatrice. ] A female looker-on or beholder. 
Amid the general wreck see where she stands. 
Like Helen, in the night when Troy was sack’d, 
Spectatress of the mischief which she made. Rowe. 
SPE'CTRE, s. [spectrum, Lat., spectre, Fr„ “an 
image or figure, seen either truly or but in conceit; thence 
a spirit, ghost, vision, apparition, fantasm.” Cotgrave.] 
Apparition; appearance of persons dead. 
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