Word Meanings - FLYSPECK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot.

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• SPECK
  The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus. Speck falls , falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel.
• SPECKLED-BILL
  The American white-fronted goose .
• SPECKLEDNESS
  The quality of being speckled.
• INSIGNIFICANT
  1. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words. 2. Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile. Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and
• INSIGNIFICANTLY
  without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose. "Anger insignificantly fierce." Cowper.
• EXCREMENTIVE
  Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement. "The excrementive parts." Felthman.
• STAIN
  1. To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood. 2. To color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by processess affecting, chemically or otherwise, the
• STAINLESS
  Free from stain; immaculate. Shak. The veery care he took to keep his name Stainless, with some was evidence of shame. Crabbe. Syn. -- Blameless; spotless; faultless. See Blameless.
• SPECKLE
  A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself. An huge great serpent, all with speckles pied. Spebser.
• SPECKT
  A woodpecker. See Speight.
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• SPECKLED
  Marked or variegated with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface. Speckled Indians , the Pintos. -- Speckled trout. The common American brook trout. See Trout. The rainbow trout.
• EXCREMENTITIAL; EXCREMENTITIOUS
  Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.
• SPECKSIONEER
  The chief harpooner, who also directs in cutting up the speck, or blubber; -- so called among whalers.
• STAINER
  1. One who stains or tarnishes. 2. A workman who stains; as, a stainer of wood.
• HENCEFORWARD
  From this time forward; henceforth.
• EXCREMENTIZE
  To void excrement. Life of A. Wood
• SPECKLED-BELLY
  The gadwall.
• STAINLESSLY
  In a stainless manner.
• EXCREMENT
  Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure.
• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• SUSTAINABLE
  Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• ABSTAIN
  To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from. Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay. Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak. Syn. -- To refrain;
• THENCE
  see -wards) thennes, thannes , AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. 1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark
• ARCHENCEPHALA
  The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.
• THENCEFORTH
  From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12.
• SUSTAINMENT
  The act of sustaining; maintenance; support. Milton. Lowell.