Specialize (v. t.) To mention specially; to particularize.
Specialize (v. t.) To apply to some specialty or limited object; to assign to a specific use; as, specialized knowledge.
Specialize (v. t.) To supply with an organ or organs having a special function or functions.
Specially (adv.) In a special manner; particularly; especially.
Specially (adv.) For a particular purpose; as, a meeting of the legislature is specially summoned.
Specialties (pl. ) of Specialty
Specialty (n.) Particularity.
Specialty (n.) A particular or peculiar case.
Specialty (n.) A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified.
Specialty (n.) That for which a person is distinguished, in which he is specially versed, or which he makes an object of special attention; a speciality.
Specie () abl. of L. species sort, kind. Used in the phrase in specie, that is, in sort, in kind, in (its own) form.
Specie (n.) Coin; hard money.
Species (n.) Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.
Species (n.) A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer individuals. Thus, man is a species, under animal as a genus; and man, in its turn, may be regarded as a genus with respect to European, American, or the like, as species.
Species (n.) In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.
Species (n.) A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth.
Species (n.) Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
Species (n.) A public spectacle or exhibition.
Species (n.) A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
Species (n.) An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.
Species (n.) The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure.
Specifiable (a.) Admitting specification; capable of being specified.
Specific (a.) Of or pertaining to a species; characterizing or constituting a species; possessing the peculiar property or properties of a thing which constitute its species, and distinguish it from other things; as, the specific form of an animal or a plant; the specific qualities of a drug; the specific distinction between virtue and vice.
Specific (a.) Specifying; definite, or making definite; limited; precise; discriminating; as, a specific statement.
Specific (a.) Exerting a peculiar influence over any part of the body; preventing or curing disease by a peculiar adaption, and not on general principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.
Specific (n.) A specific remedy. See Specific, a., 3.
Specific (a.) Anything having peculiar adaption to the purpose to which it is applied.
Specifical (a.) Specific.
Specifically (adv.) In a specific manner.
Specificalness (n.) The quality of being specific.
Specificate (v. t.) To show, mark, or designate the species, or the distinguishing particulars of; to specify.
Specification (n.) The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits.
Specification (n.) The designation of particulars; particular mention; as, the specification of a charge against an officer.
Specification (n.) A written statement containing a minute description or enumeration of particulars, as of charges against a public officer, the terms of a contract, the description of an invention, as in a patent; also, a single article, item, or particular, an allegation of a specific act, as in a charge of official misconduct.
Soecificness (n.) The quality or state of being specific.
Specified (imp. & p. p.) of Specify
Specifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Specify
Specify (v. t.) To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased.
Specollum (n.) See Stylet, 2.
Specimen (n.) A part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number of things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of what is not exhibited; a sample; as, a specimen of a man's handwriting; a specimen of painting; aspecimen of one's art.
Speciocities (pl. ) of Speciosity
Speciosity (n.) The quality or state of being specious; speciousness.
Speciosity (n.) That which is specious.
Specious (a.) Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or look; showy.
Specious (a.) Apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct, but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument.
Speck (n.) The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.
Speck (n.) 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.
Speck (n.) A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.
Speck (n.) A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmaea) common in the Eastern United States.
Specked (imp. & p. p.) of Speck
Specking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speck
Speck (v. t.) 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.
Speckle (n.) A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself.
Speckled (imp. & p. p.) of Speckle
Speckling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speckle
Speckle (v. t.) To mark with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface; to variegate with spots of a different color from the ground or surface.
Speckled (a.) Marked or variegated with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface.
Speckled-belly (n.) The gadwall.
Speckled-bill (n.) The American white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons).
Speckledness (n.) The quality of being speckled.
Specksioneer (n.) The chief harpooner, who also directs in cutting up the speck, or blubber; -- so called among whalers.
Speckt (n.) A woodpecker. See Speight.
Spectacle (n.) Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant; a gazingstock.
Spectacle (n.) A spy-glass; a looking-glass.
Spectacle (n.) An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light.
Spectacle (n.) Fig.: An aid to the intellectual sight.
Spectacled (a.) Furnished with spectacles; wearing spectacles.
Spectacled (a.) Having the eyes surrounded by color markings, or patches of naked skin, resembling spectacles.
Spectacular (a.) Of or pertaining to a shows; of the nature of a show.
Spectacular (a.) Adapted to excite wonder and admiration by a display of pomp or of scenic effects; as, a spectacular celebration of some event; a spectacular play.
Spectacular (a.) Pertaining to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.
Spectant (a.) Looking forward.
Spectation (n.) Regard; aspect; appearance.
Spectator (n.) One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show.
Spectatorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a spectator.
Spectatorship (n.) The office or quality of a spectator.
Spectatorship (n.) The act of beholding.
Spectatress (n.) Alt. of Spectatrix
Spectatrix (n.) A female beholder or looker-on.
Specter (n.) Alt. of Spectre
Spectre (n.) Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom.
Spectre (n.) The tarsius.
Spectre (n.) A stick insect.
Spectioneer (n.) Same as Specsioneer.
Spectral (a.) Of or pertaining to a specter; ghosty.
Spectral (a.) Of or pertaining to the spectrum; made by the spectrum; as, spectral colors; spectral analysis.
Spectrally (adv.) In the form or manner of a specter.
Spectre (n.) See Specter.
Spectrological (a.) Of or pertaining to spectrology; as, spectrological studies or experiments.
Spectrology (n.) The science of spectrum analysis in any or all of its relations and applications.
Spectrometer (n.) A spectroscope fitted for measurements of the luminious spectra observed with it.
Spectrophotometer (n.) An instrument for measuring or comparing the intensites of the colors of the spectrum.
Spectroscope (n.) An optical instrument for forming and examining spectra (as that of solar light, or those produced by flames in which different substances are volatilized), so as to determine, from the position of the spectral lines, the composition of the substance.
Spectroscopic (a.) Alt. of Spectroscopical
Spectroscopical (a.) Of or pertaining to a spectroscope, or spectroscopy.
Spectroscopist (n.) One who investigates by means of a spectroscope; one skilled in the use of the spectroscope.
Spectroscopy (n.) The use of the spectroscope; investigations made with the spectroscope.
Spectra (pl. ) of Spectrum
Spectrum (n.) An apparition; a specter.
Spectrum (n.) The several colored and other rays of which light is composed, separated by the refraction of a prism or other means, and observed or studied either as spread out on a screen, by direct vision, by photography, or otherwise. See Illust. of Light, and Spectroscope.