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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.
  • SCRAPING
    1. The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper. 2. Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.
  • SPECKLED-BILL
    The American white-fronted goose .
  • SPECKLEDNESS
    The quality of being speckled.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • SCRAPPY
    Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency; as, a scrappy lecture. A dreadfully scrappy dinner. Thackeray.
  • SPECKSIONEER
    The chief harpooner, who also directs in cutting up the speck, or blubber; -- so called among whalers.
  • SCRAPPILY
    In a scrappy manner; in scraps. Mary Cowden Clarke.
  • SCRAP
    The crisp substance that remains after trying out animal fat; as, pork scraps. 4. pl. (more info) 1. Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. I have no materials -- not a scrap. De Quincey.
  • SCRAPPLE
    An article of food made by boiling together bits or scraps of meat, usually pork, and flour or Indian meal.
  • PARTICLE
    A subordinate word that is never inflected (a preposition, conjunction, interjection); or a word that can not be used except in compositions; as, ward in backward, ly in lovely. (more info) 1. A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little
  • SPECKLED-BELLY
    The gadwall.
  • SCRAPE
    1. To rub over the surface of with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface; to grate harshly over; to abrade; to make even, or bring to a required condition or form, by moving
  • SCRAPER
    1. An instrument with which anything is scraped. Specifically: An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it. An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, used for scraping up earth in making or
  • SCRAPBOOK
    A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept.
  • MOLECULE
    The smallest part of any substance which possesses the characteristic properties and qualities of that substance, and which can exist alone in a free state. (more info) 1. One of the very small invisible particles of which all matter is supposed
  • SCRAPEPENNY
    One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser.
  • FLYSPECK
    A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot.
  • SKYSCRAPER
    A name for the one of the fancy sails alleged to have been sometimes set above the skysail. A very tall building. (more info) A skysail of a triangular form.
  • KENSPECKLE
    Having so marked an appearance as easily to be recognized.

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