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Webster 1913 Edition

Speck

Speck

,
Noun.
[Cf. Icel.
spik
blubber, AS.
spic
, D.
spek
, G.
speck
.]
The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.
Speck falls
(Naut.)
,
falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel.

Speck

,
Noun.
[OE.
spekke
, AS.
specca
; cf. LG.
spaak
.]
1.
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
.
“Gray sand, with black specks.”
Anson.
2.
A very small thing; a particle; a mite;
as,
specks
of dust; he has not a
speck
of money.
Many bright
specks
bubble up along the blue Egean.
Landor.
3.
(Zool.)
A small etheostomoid fish (
Ulocentra stigmaea
) common in the Eastern United States.

Speck

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Specked
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Specking
.]
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
.
Carnation, purple, azure, or
specked
with gold.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Speck

SPECK

,
Noun.
[This word may be formed from peck, for peckled has been used for speckled, spotted as though pecked.]
1.
A spot; a stain; a small place in any thing that is discolored by foreign matter, or is of a color different from that of the main substance; as a speck on paper or cloth.
2.
A very small thing.

SPECK

,
Verb.
T.
To spot; to stain in spots or drops.

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