specific gravity

[GRAVITY.] specific-heat, s. [HEAT, 8.] pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, spē-cio us, a . [Fr. spécieux , from Lat. speciosus =beautiful, from specio =to see.] *1. Beautiful; pleasing to the eye; fair, showy. "As sweet to the smell as specious to the sight."- Ful . ler: Pisgah Sight , bk. iii., ch. ii., §5. 2. Apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct; plausible; appearing well at first sight. "It was a sin for which specious names and pretexts might be found."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. xiv. 1. A spot, a stain, a blemish; a small place or anything which is discolored with some foreign matter or substance, or is of a color different from that of the main body. "The bottom consisting of gray sand, with black specks." Anson: Voyages , bk. ii., ch. vii. 2. A minute particle or patch. "First a speck , and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions." spěck, v . t . [SPECK, 8.] To spot; to mark or stain, as with spots or drops. "Of white, or blue, or speck'd with gold." Gay: To a Lady , Ep. 13. spěc-kle, s . [A dim in. of speck (1), s. (q. v.)] A little speck or spot in anything of a different sub- stance or color from that of the thing itself. "An huge great serpent all with speckles pide." Spenser: Virgil's Gnat. spěc-kle, v . t . [SPECKLE, 8.] To mark with speckles or small spots of a different color from that of the ground or surface. spěc-kled (le as el), pa . par . & a. (SPECKLE, v.] A. As pa . par .: (See the verb.) I. Ord. Lang.: Marked with specks or speckles; variegated with spots of a different color from that of the ground or surface. "Turning fierce her speckled taile advaunst." Spenser: F. Q., L. L. 17. II. Her .: Spotted over with another tincture. speckled-beauty, s. IMG:content-1790.png:[blocks in formation] ferent azimuths, and extreme cases have been known in which cylindrical lenses ( i . e., lenses with no focus at all in one direc- other a segment of a cylinder instead of a sphere) have been required. Astigmatism more than any other defect requires thorough study by an oculist, as Test-lines for As- tigmatism. the focus of the eyes is apt to be normal in some directions, and this masks it, while yet the vain effort to define the The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia ashes. Divided spectacles have each lens composed of two semicircles of different foci neatly united; one half for looking at distant objects, the other for examining things near the eye. [GOGGLES, PERISCOPIC-SPECTACLES.] II. Figuratively : *1. The eye; the organ of vision. "Bid mine eyes be packing with my heart, And called them blind and dusky spectacles For losing ken of Albion's wished coast." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt . II . , iii. 2. 2. ( Pl .): Anything which a ists or aids the intellectual vision. "Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inward and found her there." -Dryden: On Dramatic Poesy.