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To Speak, v. a.
1. To utter with the mouth ; to pronounce,
Mordecal bad spoken good. Esther, vii
Consider of it, take advice, and speak yourminds. Judges.
They sat down with him upon the ground, andnone spake a word. Job, ii. 13,
When divers were hardened, and believed not,but spake evil of that way before the multitude, hedeparted. Acts, xix. 9.
You from my youth
Have known and tried me, speak 1 more than truth
Sandys.
What you keep by you, you may change andmend,
But words once can never be recall’d. Waller.
Under the tropick is our language spoke,
And part of Flanders hath receiv’d our yoke.
Waller.
He nowhere speaks it out, or in direct terrascalls them substances. Locke.
Colours speak all languages, but words are un-derstood only by such a people or nation. Spectat,
2. To proclaim ; to celebrate.
It is my father’s musickTo speak your deeds, not little of his careTo have them recompensed. Skakesp. Win. TaleTo address ; to accost.
If he have need of thee, he will deceive thee,smile upon thee, put thee in hope, speak thee fair,and say, What wantest thou ? Ecclus, xiii. 6.4. To exhibit; to make known.
Let heav’n’s wide circuit speakThe Maker’s high magnificence. Milton ,
Spe'akable. adj. [from speak.]
1. Possible to be spoken.
2. Having the power of speech.
S;>y,
How cam’st thou speakable of mute ? Milton.
Spea'ker. n. s. [from speak.]
1. One that speaks.
These fames grew so general, as Ihe authors
were lost in the generality of speakers.
Bacon’s Henry VII .In conversation or reading, find out the truesense or idea which the speaker or writer affixes tohis words. Watts’s Logick.
Common speakers have only one set of ideas,and one set of words to clothe them in ; and theseare always ready at the mouth. Swift.
2. One that speaks in any particular man-ner.
Horace's phrase is, u torret jecurAnd happy was that curious speaker. Prior.
3. One that celebrates, proclaims, or men-tions.
After my death, I wish no other herald,
No other speaker of my living actions,
To keep mine honour from corruption. Skakesp.
4. The prolocutor of the commons.
I havt disabled myself, like an elected speakerof the house. Dry den.
Speaking Trumpet , n. s. A stentoro-phonick instrument; a trumpet by whichthe voice may be propagated to a greatdistance.
That with one blast through the whole housedoes bound,
And first taught speaking trumpet how to sound.
Dryden.
Spear. n . s. [t/s-per, Welsh, ppepe, Sax .spere, Out. spare, old Fr. sparum, lowLat.]
1. A long weapon with a sharp point, usedin thrusting or throwing; a lance.
. Those bnuidishers of speares,
From many cities drawn, are they that are ourhii.derers. Chapman.
Th Egyptian like a hill himself did rear:
Like some tall tree upon it seem’d his spear.Cowley.Nor wanted in h;.
Nor wanted in his graspWhat seem’d both shield and spear. Milton.
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The flying spear
Sung innocent, and spent its force in air. Pope.
The rous’d up lion, resolute and slow,
Advances full on the protended spear. Thomson.2. A lance, generally with prongs, to killfish.
The borderers watching, until they be pest upinto some narrow creek, below them cast a strongcorded net athwart the stream, with which, andtheir loud shouting, they stop them from retiring,until the ebb have abandoned them to the huntersmercy, who, by an old custom, share them withsuch indifferency, as, if a woman with child bepresent, the babe in her womb is gratified with aportion; a point also observed by the spear hunt-ers in taking of salmons. Carew .,
To Spear , v. a. [from the noun.] To killor pierce with a spear.
To Spear , v. n. To shoot or sprout. Thisis commonly written spire.
Let them not lie lest they should spear, and theair dry and spoil the shoot. Mortimer's Husbandry.
Spea'rgrass. n. s. [spear and grass.]Long stiff grass.
Tickle our noses with speargrass to make thembleed j and then beslubber our garments with it.
Spea'rman. n.s. [spear and man.] Onewho uses a lance in fight.
The spearman’s arm, by thee, great God , di-rected,
Sends forth a certain wound. Prior.
Spea'rmint. n.s. [mentha Romana, Lat.]A plant; a species of mint.
Spe'arwort. n.s. [ranunculus Jlammeus,Lat.] An herb. Ainsworth.
Spe'cial. adj. [special, Fr. specialis, Lat.]
1. Noting a sort or species.
A special idea is called by the schools a species.
Watts.
2. Particular; peculiar.
Most commonly with a certain special grace ofher own, wagging her lips, and grinning instead ofsmiling. Sidney.
The several books of scripture having had eachsome several occasion and particular purposewhich caused them to be written, the contentsthereof are according to the exigence of that specialend whereunto they are intended. Hooker.
Of all men alive,
I never yet behelcf that special face,
Which I could fancy more than any other. Shak.
Nought so vile (baton the earth doth live.
But to the earth some special good doth give. Shah.
The fourth commandment, in respect of anyone definite and special day of every week, wasnot simply and perpetually moral. White.
Our Saviour is represented every wherein scrip-ture as the special patron of the poor and the af-flicted, and as laying their interest to heart morenearly than those of any other of his members.
Atterbury.
3. Appropriate; designed for a particularpurpose.
O’Neal, upon his marriage with a daughter ofKildare, was made denizen by a special act of par-liament. Davies.
Such things are evident by natural light, whichmen of a mature age, in the ordinary use of theirfaculties, with the common help of mutual society,may know and be sufficiently assured of withoutthe help of any special revelation. Wilkins.
. Extraordinary ; uncommon.
That which necessity of some special time dothcause to be enjoined, bindeth no longer than dur-ing that time, but doth afterward become free. |
Hooker.
The other scheme takes special care to attributeall the work of conversion to grace. Hammond.
Though our charity should be universal, yet asit cannot be actually exercised but on particular ,times, so it should be chiefly on special opportuni- !ties. Spratt’s Sermons.
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He bore
A paunch of the same bulk before;
Which still he had a special careTo keep well cramm’d with thrifty fare.
5. Chief in excellence.
The king hath drawn
The special head of all the land together. ...jy.
Skakesp. W* ’
Spe'cially. ado. [from special .]
1. Particularly, above others. fore
Specially the day that thou stoodest be
Lord- p0. * f1,
A brother beloved, specially to me.
2. Not in a common way; pecub' ar ty ' 0 .
If there be matter of law that card 65 *fioio ^culty, the jury may, to deliver themseReattaint, find it specially.
Spe'cialty. 7 n. s. [specialitySpeciality. J special.] P arUC ^u,n it!
On these two general heads all otherare dependent.
The packet is not come
Where that and other specialties are bounfl'^^pjSpeciality of rule hath been neglected* je^ {When men were sure, that, in cose 1 1 J otl ,e *upon a bare contract without specvslity* st upparty might wage his law, they would. n °j e bt^ Won such contracts without reducing V ,e 0 1 ’a speciality, which accorded many suit**
Spe'cies. n.s. [species, Lat.] jteffi 1 '
1. A sort; a subdivision of a spec&l
A special idea is called by the school*it is one common nature that agrees to c ; a i id jgular individual beings : so horseisaspj^or species, as it agrees to Bucephalus * JfW 1 ’Snowball.
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2. Class of nature; single order °
He intendeth the care of species or C i < ; v itli , ^ 5 lf |.ttires, but ietteth loose the guard of ,nt ftro*single existences. * . ,
The Phenix Pindar is a whole species ^ncw
For we are animals no less,
Although of different species. ce e<
Thou naiu’st a race which must l> r0
me, prf
Yet my whole species in myself I ,e ®'ujes '‘’altA mind of superior or meaner ca P a ]l ie!f tl> l7 ‘X.human, would constitute a different sf**® 0 { c °,junited to a human body in the sain® nics ’[’jynexion : and a mind of human c ®{J?w eI eii l "‘Li.make another species, if united to a di ^'s .
in different laws of connexion. ^ yjsfa* 6
3. Appearance to the senses; anyor sensible representation. ^
An apparent diversity between theble and audible is, that the visible d°“in the medium, but the audible doth- gn y “ j,yIt is a most certain rule, how mU .jtyhath of colour, so much hath it of op*.^ jfie n .muso much the more unfit it is to trails ' 11 \ he 6W?i,,e,
The species of the letters illumnia' . lS tedj swere nearer to the lens than those ill" ‘j ire e/> ,,([deep red, by about three inches, 0 8l ii>
quarter; but the species of thewith indigo and violet appeared soindistinct, that I could not read them-
4. Representation to the m> 0
Wit ill the poet, or wit-writu'gj. vvr'lfLiC* .
p fumltv nf the imagination ^ the s P. ft ‘,s$
the faculty of the imaginationsearches over all the memory ; l>r .ideas of those things which it design
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5. Show; visible exhibition- a ot»and perhaps, in the following ■»misprinted for spectacles* ti , e p 1
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6. Circulating money. „f '’.'I
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