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[Eng. spectator; -ship.] 1. The office, quality, or position of a spectator. 2. The act of beholding. "Thou stand'st i' th' state of hanging, or of some death more long in spectatorship, and crueler in suffering." -Shakesp.: Coriolanus, v. 2. tspěc-tā-tre , *spěc-tā-trix, s. [Eng. spec tat or; -e ; Lat. spectatrix.] A female spectator or beholder. "Spectatre both and spectacle, a sad And silent cipher." Cowper: Task , i. 476. 3782 spěc-ter, s. [SPECTRE.] spěc-trą, s. pl. [SPECTRUM.] spěc-tral, a. [Eng. spect (e)r, spectrum ); adj. suff. al.] 1. Of or pertaining to a specter; ghostlike, ghostly. and form the standard of reference. By combining prisms of different refractive and dispersive powers, a strong spectrum may be obtained without deflection. Such prisms may be contained in quite a small tube with slit and lens, and are called Direct-vision Spectroscopes, which are much used for microscopic observation. Instruments specially fitted IMG:content-1793.png:[blocks in formation] Zool.: Vampyrus spectrum. [VAMPIRE.] spectre-shrimp, 8. [SKELETON-SCREW.] spectre-tarsier, s. [TARSIUS.] *spěc-tred (tred as terd), a. [Eng.spect(e)r; -ed] Haunted with specters. spěc-tro-grăph, s . [Lat. spectrum an image, and graphein =to write.] An apparatus for producing photographic impre ions of a spectrum. spěc-tro-grăph'-ic, a . [Eng. spectrograph ; -ic.] Of or pertaining to a spectrograph.