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f attention; a specialty. On these two general heads all other specialities are depedent. Hooker. Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow- mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his speciality.…

Given to speculation; contemplative. The mind of man being by nature speculative. Hooker.

A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter.

A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.

Poison spittle; poison ejected from the mouth. [R.] Hooker.

To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of. Hooker.

ing, consisting of a glistening metallic plate shaped like the bowl of a spoon with a fishhook attached. -- Spoon bit, a bit for boring, hollowed or furrowed along one side. -- Spoon net, a net for landing fish. -- Spoon oar. see under Oar.

irearm disharged by a spring, when this is trodden upon or is otherwise moved. -- Spring hook (Locomotive Engines), one of the hooks which fix the driving-wheel spring to the frame. -- Spring latch, a latch that fastens with a spring.

hip and conduct; regularity; rule. [Obs.] They of Galatia [were] much more out of square. Hooker. I have not kept my square. Shak.

A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance, fastened on its shank to imitate a squid. Flying squid, Giant squid. (Zoöl.) See under Flying, and Giant. -- Squid hound (Zoöl.), the striped bass.

r support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds. "Hooked staves." Piers Plowman. The boy was the very staff of my age. Shak. He spoke of it [beer] in "The Earnest Cry," and likewise in the "Scotch Drink," as one of the staffs of life which had been struck from the poor man's hand…

ir stains. Dryden. Our opinion . . . is, I trust, without any blemish or stain of heresy. Hooker.

iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like.

r, whereupon their meetings unto that purpose . . . had the names of stations given them. Hooker.

the foremast and mainmast with thimbles spliced to its bight into which the stay tackles hook.

To be angry. [Obs.] Hooker.

- Stopper bolt (Naut.), a large ringbolt in a ship's deck, to which the deck stoppers are hooked.

ipture of God is a storehouse abounding with estimable treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Hooker.

a harpooner. Wherever we come to an anchor, we always send out our strikers, and put out hooks and lines overboard, to try fish. Dampier.

Somewhat hooked or curved.