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Specific. Bacon.

In a specific manner.

The quality of being specific.

The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.

dulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence. The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one. Locke.…

or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief. An abstract of every treatise he had read. Watts. Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled. Ford…

One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.

A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit. Ye powers and spirits of this nethermost abyss. Milton. The throne is darkness, in the abyss of light. Dryden.

Act of accentuating; applications of accent. Specifically (Eccles. Mus.),

One who accepts; specifically (Law & Com.),

completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. Specifically: (Mus.)

Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers. How gay with all the accouterments of war!

Pricking with a needle; a needle prick. Specifically (Med.):

An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.

One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.

The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism. Specifically: (Med)

That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. Specifically: (Theol.)

contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane. Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly. Luke xxii. 44.

A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over.

Whiteness. Specifically: (Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface.