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Definition of Speck
Speck
The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.

A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit.

A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.

A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmaea) common in the Eastern United States.

To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture.


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Speck Quotations
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
George Eliot

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
Clarence Darrow

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
Brian Greene

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
Bram Stoker

Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.
Walter Lang

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.
Grover Norquist

More Speck Quotations

Speck Translations
speck in German is Fleckchen
speck in Hungarian is szemcse, petty, csepp






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