Speck

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.

II. Speck ·noun A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmaea) common in the Eastern United States.

III. Speck ·noun A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.

IV. Speck ·noun 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.

V. Speck ·vt 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.

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