spectacularity (spektakulariti)

[ It must be owned that when all was done the place had a certain spectacularity ; the furniture and ornaments wore somehow the air of properties. Howells, Private Theatricals, x. Porphyro upon her face doth look, Like puzzled urchin on an aged crone Who keepeth closed a wondrous riddle-book, As spectacled she sits in chimney-nook. Keats, Eve of St. Agnes, xv. 2. In zoöl.: ( a ) Marked in any way that suggests spectacles or the wearing of spectacles: as, the spectacled bear orcobra. (b) Spec table or spectacular; being "a sight to behold"; spectral: as, the spectacled shrimp. - Spectacled bear, Ursus or Tremarctos ornatus, the only South American Spectacled Bear ( Tremarctos ornatus). bear, having a light-colored mark on the face, like a pair of spectacles. - Spectacled cobra, any specimen of the common Indian cobra, Naja tripudians, which has the markings of the back of the hood well developed so as to resemble a pair of spectacles. See cut under cobra - de capello. Spectacled coot, spectacled duck, the surf scoter or -duck, Edemia per spic ill at a; the goggle-nose. [Connecticut.]- Spectacled eider, So mater i a ( Arcto nett a) fisher i, an eider-duck of the northwest coast of America, having in the male the eyes set in silvery-white plumage rimmed with black. - Spectacled goose, guillemot, snake, stenoderm. See the nouns. - Spectacled shrimp, the specter or skeleton-shrimp, a caprellid. See Caprella. Spectacled vampire. Same as spectacled stenoderm. a, bows; b, shoulders; c, rims; d, bridge. silver; it is now usually of steel or of gold. It is made up, of the "bridge," "rims" (or frames of the lenses), "bows," and "sides" or "temples"; but the bows are now often omitted. The frame is so constructed and adjusted as to rest on the nose and ears and hold the lenses in the proper position. Spectacles which are supported on the nose only, by means of a spring, are commonly called eye -gla es. Spectacles with convex lenses are for the aged, or farsighted; and spectacles with concave lenses are for the IMG:content-1676.png:[blocks in formation] The last test was, spectacularly, the best of the afternoon. Sci. Amer., N. S., LVII. 360.