Speak

spek, v. i. [imp. spoke (spake nearly obsol.); p. p. spoken (spoke, colloq. or rare); speaking.] To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to expre thoughts by words; to expre opinions; to utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; make mention; to give sound; to say, tell, talk, articulate, pronounce. — v. t. To utter with the mouth, pronounce, declare, proclaim; to talk or converse in to addre , accost; to exhibit, make known; to expre 'silently, or by signs; to communicate. — speak a ship. (Naut.) To hail and speak to her commander. — Speak'able, a. Capable of being spoken. — Speak'er, re. One who speaks; esp., one who utters or pronounces a discourse; one who presides over, or speaks for, a deliberative a embly, preserving order and regulating the debates; a chairman. — Speakership, n. Office of speaker. — Speak ing, re. Act of uttering words; discourse; public declamation. — Spokeslnan, spokz'man, re.; pi. -men. One who speaks for another or others. Speech, spech, re. The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words, as in human beings; power speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expre ing ideas; a particular language; tongue; dialect; talk; common saying; a formal discourse in public; any declaration of thoughts; harangue; addre ; oration. — Speechify, -T-fi, v. i. [-fied (-fid), -fying.] To make a speech, harangue, — used derisively or humorously. — Speechle , a. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech; dumb; not speaking for time; mute; silent. Btin, cube, full; moon, f$6t; cow, oil 2ti Spear, sper, re. A long, pointed weapon, used in war * hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a lance; a sharp-po >ointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbins; fisl bing fish, etc^; a shoot, as of gra ; a spire. — v. t. [speared (sperd), spearing.] T o pierce or kill with a spear. — v. i. To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. — Spearlnan, re.; pi. -men. One armed with a spear. — Spear rmint, re. A plant: a species of mint. — Spear'head, re. The pointed end of a spear. Spear-heads. to Species, spe's hez, re. sing. Scpl. Orig., appearance; image. (Logic.) A conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer individuals. (JVat. Hist.) A permanent cla of existing things, or beings, a ociated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation. Sort; kind; variety. (Civil Law.) The form or shape — given to materials; fashion; form; figure.— Spe'cial, spesh'-al, a. Pert, to, or constituting, a species or sort; different from others; extraordinary; uncommon; designed for a particular purpose or person; limited in range; confined to a definite field of action or discus ion.— In special. Particularly.— S. pleading. The allegation of special or new matter as disting. fr. a direct denial of matter previously alleged on the other side; the popular denomination of the whole science of pleading. — Spe'cially, adv. In a special manner; particularly; especially; for a particular purpose. — Specialist, n. One who devotes himself to a specialty. — Speciality, spesh'T-al'T-tT, Spe'cialty, spesh'al-tt, re. Particularity; a particular or peculiar case; that for which a person is distinguished, or which he makes an object of special attention. (Law.) A contract, or obligation, under seal; a contract by deed.— Spe'cie, -shT, re. Copper, silver, or gold coin; hard money.— Specify, spes'as T-fi, v. t. [-fied (-fid), -tying.] To mention or name, as a particular thing. — Specific, -ical, spe-sif Ik-al, or a. Pert, to, characterizing, or constituting a species; tending to specify or make particular; definite; limited; precise. (Med.) Exerting a peculiar influence over any part of the body; dependent on contagion, — said of diseases.— Specific, re. (Med.) A remedy which exerts a special action in the prevention or cure of a disease; a remedy supposed to be infallible. — Specific gravity. (Physics.) See Gravity, to under Grave, a. — S. name. (JVat. Hist.) The name which, appended to the name of the genus, constitutes the distinctive name of the species. — Specif-; ically, adv. In a specific manner; according to the nature of the species; definitely; particularly. — To Speciflcalne , re. — Spec'if i cal i on, n. Act of specifying, or determining, by a mark or limit; designation of particulars; particular mention; a written statement containing a minute description or enumeration of particulars; any article or thing specified. — Specimen, re. A part, or small portion, of anything, or number of things, intended to exhibrit the kind and quality of the whole, or of what is not exhibited; sample; model; pattern. — Spe'cio us, -shus, a. Obvious; showy; manifest; apparently — right; superficially fair, just, or correct; appearing well at first view; plausible; ostensible; colorable; of feasible.— Spe'ciously, adv. — Spe'ciousne , re.— Speclacle, -ta-kl, n. Something exhibited to view, — usuallv, as extraordinary, or as worthy of special notice; show; sight; pageant, pi. An optical instrument, used to a ist or correct some defect of vision. — Spectacled, -kid, a. Furnished with, or wearing spectacles.— Spectac'ular, a. Pert, to shows; of the nature of a show; of, or pert, to, spectacles, or gla es a for the eyes. — Spectator, re. One who sees or beholds one; personally present at any exhibition; look linger or ink, then, boNboN, chair, get, er-on; observer; witne .— Spectatre , -trix, female looker-on. — Speder, -tre, -tgr, n. An par it i on; ghost; something made preternaturally visible. — Spec'tral, a. Pert, to a specter; ghostly; pert, to a spectrum. — Spedrum, n. pi.; -tra, A visible form; something seen; an image of thing seen, continuing after the eyes are closed turned away. {Opt.) An oblong stripe on a formed by the colored and other rays of which beam of light is composed, separated by the tion of a prism or other means: see Light. — troscope, -skop, n. An optical instrument for zing spectra, esp. those formed by flames in different substances are volatilized, so as to mine, from the nature and position of the spectral lines, the composition of the substance. — Speculum, n.; pi. -ula, -la. A mirror or looking-gla reflector of polished metal, esp. such as is used reflecting telescopes. {Surg.) An instrument dilating certain pa ages of the body, and throwing light within them. — Spec'ular, a. Having qualities of a speculum or mirror; having a smooth, reflecting surface. — Specular iron. (Min.) An of iron occurring frequently in crystals of liant metallic luster, — a variety of hematite. Spie'geleisen, spe'gl-i-zn, n. 414