Speculation

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Power of sight.

II. Speculation ·noun Examination by the eye; view.

III. Speculation ·noun The act of Speculating.

IV. Speculation ·noun The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.

V. Speculation ·noun Any business venture in involving unusual risks, with a chance for large profits.

VI. Speculation ·noun A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; view; notion; conjecture.

VII. Speculation ·noun Mental view of anything in its various aspects and relations; contemplation; intellectual examination.

VIII. Speculation ·noun A game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.

IX. Speculation ·noun The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, ·etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.