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Definition of Specks
1. speck [v] - See also: speck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Specks
Literary usage of Specks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses by William Horatio Bates (1920)
"These floating specks are usually dark or black, but sometimes appear like ...
Some have attributed them to the presence of floating specks—dead cells, ..."
2. Annual ReportRailroads (1873)
"Dolerite, from near Gardner, Colo., consisting of large crystals of augite,
plagioclase. and specks of magnetite. No. 239. ..."
3. The Etcher's Handbook: Giving an Account of the Old Processes, and of by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1881)
"specks and Rotten Lines. IN the old negative process specks and rotten ...
specks occur when the ground is porous, and rotten lines when the ground has not ..."
4. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1916)
"about the size of the head of an ordinary pin, and the smallest ones are mere
specks on the twig. This insect passes the winter partly grown, ..."
5. The Journal of Medical Research by American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists (1902)
"At 40° C. feebly developed specks are seen after 6—8 days. At 30-35° C.
feebly developed specks are seen after 3- 4 days. At 28—30° C. feebly developed ..."
6. The House Fly, Disease Carrier: An Account of Its Dangerous Activities and by Leland Ossian Howard (1911)
"Fly-specks Since, on account possibly of the simplicity of the digestive processes
just referred to, pathogenic bacteria and other micro-organisms pass ..."
7. The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: Or, The Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing (1845)
"Skin pale yellowish-white, rarely with a faint blush, and marked when ripe with
a few large ruddy or dark specks. Stalk an inch and a quarter long, slender, ..."
8. The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: Or, The Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing (1849)
"Skin pale yel- lowish-white, rarely with a faint blush, and marked when ripe with
a few large ruddy or dark specks. Stalk an inch and a quarter long, ..."
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