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A small South African antelope (Neotragus melanotis). It is speckled with gray and chestnut, above; the under parts are reddish fawn.

Spotted; speckled.

Covered with spots; speckled; variegated. [Obs.]

A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck. The little motes in the sun do ever stir, though there be no wind. Bacon. We are motes in the midst of generations. Landor.

een the Southern Cross and the Pole. Muscæ volitantes (. Etym: [L., flying flies.] (Med.) Specks or filaments apparently seen moving or glinding about in the field of vision. Their appearance is often a symptom of disease of the eye, or of disorder of the nervous system.

To draw near; to approach. A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! And still it neared, and neared. Coleridge.

Indies in loose granules, or sometimes in larger masses, of a reddish yellow color, with specks of white. It has a strong smell and acrid taste, and was formerly used in medicine as an emmenagogue and antispasmodic. Dunglison.

A whitish speck or film on the eye. [Obs.] Milton.

Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.

Speckled; spotted. [Obs.]

markable for having the dark skin of the face irregularly spotted with white. Called also speckled Indians.

er percoid fish of the United States (Aphredoderus Sayanus). It is of a dark olive color, speckled with blackish spots.

Specked, as if plashed with color. Keats.

Ring-streaked. Cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. Gen. xxx. 39.

Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound. Shak.

Variegated; spotted; speckled; piebald. [Prov. Eng.]

Specky. [Obs.] hapman.

A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.

aches a length of two and a half feet, is dark olive- green with small white or yellowish specks on the sides, and has yellow spines along the back, except on the neck.

Thickly marked with small, round specks; spotted.