Word Meanings - SPECTACLED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the eyes surrounded by color markings, or patches of naked skin, resembling spectacles. Spectacled bear , a South American bear which inhabits the high mountains of Chili and Peru. It has a light-colored ring around each eye. -- Spectacled

Additional info about word: SPECTACLED

Having the eyes surrounded by color markings, or patches of naked skin, resembling spectacles. Spectacled bear , a South American bear which inhabits the high mountains of Chili and Peru. It has a light-colored ring around each eye. -- Spectacled coot, or Spectacled duck , the surf scoter, or surf duck. -- Spectacled eider See Eider. -- Spectacled goose , the gannet. -- Spectacled snake , the cobra de capello. (more info) 1. Furnished with spectacles; wearing spectacles. As spectacled she sits in chimney nook. Keats.

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• SPECTACLE
  An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light. 4. pl. (more info) 1. Something exhibited to view; usually,
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• NAKER
  See NACRE
• LIGHT
  licht, OHG. lioht, Goth. liuhap, Icel. lj, L. lux light, lucere to 1. That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous. Note: Light was regarded formerly
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• CHILIAN
  Of or pertaining to Chili. -- n.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• LIGHTSOME
  1. Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon. 2. Gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating. That lightsome affection of joy. Hooker. -- Light"some*ly, adv. -- Light"some*ness, n. Happiness
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• LIGHTNESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; delicacy; grace. Syn. -- Levity; volatility; instability; inconstancy; unsteadiness; giddiness; flightiness; airiness; gayety; liveliness; agility;
• LIGHT-ARMED
  Armed with light weapons or accouterments.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• LIGHTERAGE
  1. The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter. 2. The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• RATTLESNAKE
  Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp ratting sound when shaken. The common
• DRUMMOND LIGHT
  A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called
• TROCHILIC
  OF or pertaining to rotary motion; having power to draw out or turn round. "By art trochilic." Camden.
• BEADSNAKE
  A small poisonous snake of North America , banded with yellow, red, and black.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.