specimenn.

/ˈspɛsɪmən/

Forms: Also 1600s, 1800s dialect speciment.

Etymology: < Latin specimen, < specĕre to look, look at. Compare French spécimen, Spanish especimen. The Latin plural specimina was fairly common in the latter half of the 17th cent.

†1. A means of discovering or finding out; an experiment. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > [noun] > an experiment

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try-out1903

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. viii. 17 For deprehending and finding out the taste of the Earth, Vergil prescribes a generall Specimen for triall of salt and bitter soyles.

†2. A pattern or model. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > prototype > [noun] > model, pattern, or example

byseningc1175

mirrora1300

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1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. D4^v It so weakens and disables men, That they of manhood give no goodly specimen.

1659 T. Lushington Resurrection Rescued 67 Our Resurrection shall be like our Saviour': His and ours make a mutual Aspect; His the Specimen, and ours the Complement.

1697 H. Layton Observ. Money & Coin 2 Some Brittish Princes did Coyn some pieces both of Gold and Silver, of which he there exhibits to us the Specimina.

3. An example, instance, or illustration of something, from which the character of the whole may be inferred.

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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > exemplifying some rule, activity, quality, etc.

asaumplea1250

evidencec1391

piecea1393

examplea1398

samplera1400

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precedenta1575

exemplification1582

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instance1592

instancy1613

copy1641

specimen1659

patron saint1803

for instance1959

1659 B. Walton Considerator Considered 291 These specimina of his candor and love of truth.

1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 282 He had scarce given a Speciment of his Learning.

1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. *Cij You have here a Specimen of Chaucer's Language.

1780 Mirror No. 97 The conversations of which I have given you a specimen.

1829 J. Mill Anal. Human Mind (1869) I. 133 It is one of those specimens of clear and vigorous statement..in which the Analysis abounds.

1847 R. W. Emerson Shakespeare in Wks. (1906) I. 357 Our English Bible is a wonderful specimen of the strength and music of the English language.

1863 D. G. Mitchell Seven Stories 4 It is a fair specimen of what the Roman stationers could do.

a. A single thing selected or regarded as typical of its class; a part or piece of something taken as representative of the whole.

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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > typical or representative thing or person

forbysenc1175

figurea1340

forbyseninga1400

samplera1400

plot1551

pattern1555

resembler1581

representative1653

specimen1654

exponent1825

type1845

typification1845

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 493 Any one may sooner finde a fault, than mend it, in any Specimens, or performances of Art.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 108 Things..of which they had brought Specimens.

1765 Museum Rusticum 4 239 English workmen, who have made specimens of the several articles of equal goodness with those of the Dutch.

1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. vii. 128 We cannot judge of this concealed genius by many specimens we have of her correspondence.

1853 F. D. Maurice Prophets & Kings Old Test. xix. 335 A very memorable chapter of Micah's prophecy,..which our Church has chosen as a specimen of the whole book.

1887 J. R. Lowell Democracy & Other Addr. 96 It was not a bringing of the brick as a specimen of the house.

(a) spec. An animal, plant, or mineral, a part or portion of some substance or organism, etc., serving as an example of the thing in question for purposes of investigation or scientific study.

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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > part as representative of the whole > sample or specimen > for the purposes of scientific study

specimen1765

1765 Museum Rusticum 4 126 I have found and send a specimen of another yellow trefoil.

1797 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 87 383 I covered one side of a specimen of Iceland crystal, three inches deep, with black paper.

1802 M. Cutler Jrnl. 16 Nov. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 112 Very busy in putting up a box of [botanical] specimens for Mr. Paykull.

1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xvi. 423 Such portions of valuable fluids or solids..intended for specimens.

1854 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson Knapp's Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 121 This determination of the amount of coke yielded by any specimen of coal.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 192 In different specimens, however, the lava exhibits great variations.

(b) In extended use: of a person.

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1844 S. Wilberforce Hist. Protestant Episc. Church Amer. (1846) 5 The native thus cruelly kidnapped was not the only specimen they gathered.

1850 H. Martineau Introd. Hist. Peace (1877) III. v. xi. 414 He will stand in history as a specimen—dry and curious—but in no way as a vital being.

c. With adjectives denoting the value of the example as a type.

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1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 371 These complimentary sonnets..are not the happiest specimens in our language of these minor poems.

1849 J. H. Parker Introd. Study Gothic Archit. v. 197 Lincoln college chapel is also a very favourable specimen of Jacobean Gothic.

1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 2 If we can show finer and more remarkable specimens than our neighbours, so much the better.

5. Of persons as typical of certain qualities or of the human species. Also colloquial or slang with derogatory force, chiefly with defining adjective, as a bright, poor (etc.) specimen.

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the world > people > person > [noun] > as having character or qualities

thingc1225

headc1300

vesselc1384

soul1498

sprite?1507

spirit1559

stick1682

character1749

fish1751

hand1756

subject1797

person1807

good1809

specimen1817

a (bad, good, etc.) sortc1869

proposition1894

cookie1913

type1922

city1946

the world > people > person > [noun] > as having character or qualities > specific

known quantity1702

specimen1817

classificator1853

brain machine1858

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > that which typically exhibits a quality > person

figurer1548

illustrator1598

piece1615

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exemplificator1828

incarnation1833

(a)

1817 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 32 92 Mr. Hickman and Mr. Young..are new specimens of the spirit and the talent, which the times and the cause of freedom have brought forth.

1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xxi Growling was looking on in amused wonder at this specimen of vulgar effrontery, whom he had christened ‘The Brazen Baggage’, the first time he saw her.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 703 They were perhaps the two most remarkable specimens that the world could show of perverse absurdity.

(b)1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 5 ‘Here you are, Sir,’ shouted a strange specimen of the human race.1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 328 Where one continually sees magnificent specimens of human beings.(c)1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 163 There were some curious specimens among my visitors.1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert ii. 15 What was her husband about?.. He must have been a poor specimen.

†6. A brief and incomplete account of something in writing; a rough draught or outline serving to show the chief features. Obsolete.

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the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > outlining or sketching > sketch or brief description

adumbration1552

specimen1665

sketch1668

superficies1670

silhouette1819

outline sketch1835

thumbnail1900

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia Pref. sig. F2^v Some specimen of each of which Heads the Reader will find in the subsequent delineations.

1672 Life Mede in Mede Wks. (ed. 3) p. xxx To the same effect he had express'd himself in an early Specimen or first Draught of his Thoughts.

7. (See quot. 1819.)

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1819 Act 59 Geo. III c. 90 §10 Whereas it is usual for the Officers of Excise to leave on the Premises of the Traders and Manufacturers under their Survey, certain Books or Papers commonly called Specimens, for recording therein the Entries in the Books of such Officers of the state of the Manufactory [etc.].

Compounds

C1. attributive, passing into adj. (frequently hyphenated): Serving as, or intended for, a specimen; typical.Often applied to plants, fish, etc., of an exceptionally large size or fine quality.

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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [adjective] > typical of a class

exemplar1570

exemplary1593

typifying1653

speciminal1664

representative1788

typified1851

typal1853

specimen1860

typical1860

1860 G. J. Adler tr. C. C. Fauriel Hist. Provençal Poetry xviii. 421 I have..produced such specimen-quotations as will serve to give us an idea of the decadence of this poetry.

1870 Hist. Sketch Anderston Ch. 9 These specimen facts speak of marvellous changes.

1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 251 The highest assay made from specimen rock was $2,000 per ton.

1877 Academy 3 Nov. 428/1 The specimen chapter here given us is on Guicciardini's embassy to Spain in 1511.

1896 Daily News 7 Sept. 7/5 A number of ‘specimen’ fish have lately been caught in the Thames.

C2. General attributive.

specimen-hunter n.

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1896 Westm. Gaz. 4 Nov. 4/1 It used to be a favourite resort of the entomological specimen hunter.

specimen-monger n.

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1864 C. P. Smyth Our Inherit. in Great Pyramid 18 The hammers of tourists and the axes of specimen-mongers.

C3.

specimen-book n. a book of specimens or samples.

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pin paper1673

pattern book1772

pattern card1822

specimen-book1871

sample book1938

swatch-book1956

1871 J. Blackwood Let. 19 Sept. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1956) V. 190 I also send you by Book Post a specimen Book from which you will..be able to select the colour for the paper cover.

1896 T. L. De Vinne in Moxon's Mech. Exerc.: Printing (new ed.) II. 404 The specimen-book of the Enschedé foundry.

specimen-box n. a portable box or case specially adapted for carrying botanical or other specimens.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > for other specific contents

smoke-box1614

scale-box1708

glass-case1734

deed-box1834

livebox1834

pipe box1834

rose box1863

specimen-box1897

Bible-box1904

message box1976

1897 E. L. Voynich Gadfly I. ii. 21 Arthur brought out his specimen box and plunged into an earnest botanical discussion.

specimen page n. a page submitted by a printer as a sample setting for a book.

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society > communication > printing > material to be printed > [noun] > specimen page

specimen page1835

1835 C. Dickens Let. 9 Dec. (1965) I. 102 I have received neither specimen page nor proofs.

1877 W. Pater Let. 30 Jan. (1970) 27 Dear Mr. Macmillan..Of the two specimen pages, I enclose the one I think preferable.

1926 S. Unwin Truth about Publishing ii. 37 As soon as the printers' estimate and specimen page are received and have been checked, the estimate has to be completed by the addition of the cost of paper, binding and other items.

1975 J. Butcher Copy-editing ii. 13 Specimen pages are intended to show solutions to all the general typographical problems that the printers will meet in the book.

specimen tree n. a tree planted on its own, away from other plants of a similar size.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > cultivated or valued > [noun] > ornamental

furniture-tree1664

street tree1841

ornamental1903

specimen tree1933

1933 A. Osborn Shrubs & Trees for Garden xxiv. 119 Weeping trees are unsuitable for grouping, but very valuable for planting as specimen trees on the lawn.

1961 E. Waugh Unconditional Surrender iii. ii. 230 Guy took to walking..in the public gardens... There were winding paths, specimen trees, statuary.

1980 Amateur Gardening 25 Oct. 15/1 It makes a shapely specimen tree as well as being good for making a hedge or screen.

Derivatives

ˈspecimenify v. transitive to select as a specimen or instance.

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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > find or furnish an instance or example of [verb (transitive)] > select as a specimen

specimenify1820

1820 C. Lamb Let. 16 May (1935) II. 275 The line you cannot appropriate is Gray's sonnet, specimenifyed by Wordsworth..as mixed of bad and good style.

ˈspecimenize v. transitive to show a specimen or sample of; to collect or preserve as a specimen.

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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > find or furnish an instance or example of [verb (transitive)] > present or collect specimens of

specimenize1832

sample1871

1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 32 812 A conceited coxcomb..tormented the birds, and poked the beasts, specimenizing fantastically his ‘universal knowledge’.

1894 ‘Eha’ Naturalist on Prowl 173 I noticed a lovely little silvery spider, and resolved to specimenize it.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	specimen
释义	specimenn. /ˈspɛsɪmən/ Forms: Also 1600s, 1800s dialect speciment. Etymology: < Latin specimen, < specĕre to look, look at. Compare French spécimen, Spanish especimen. The Latin plural specimina was fairly common in the latter half of the 17th cent. †1. A means of discovering or finding out; an experiment. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > [noun] > an experiment experiencec1384 adventurec1405 conclusion1430 experiment1594 essay1605 specimen1610 tentative1632 periclitation1658 tentamen1673 say-hand1712 try-out1903 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. viii. 17 For deprehending and finding out the taste of the Earth, Vergil prescribes a generall Specimen for triall of salt and bitter soyles. †2. A pattern or model. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > prototype > [noun] > model, pattern, or example byseningc1175 mirrora1300 samplera1300 formc1384 calendarc1385 patternc1425 exemplar?a1439 lighta1450 projectc1450 moul1565 platform1574 module1608 paradigma1623 specimen1642 butt1654 paradigm1669 type1847 fore-mark1863 model1926 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. D4^v It so weakens and disables men, That they of manhood give no goodly specimen. 1659 T. Lushington Resurrection Rescued 67 Our Resurrection shall be like our Saviour': His and ours make a mutual Aspect; His the Specimen, and ours the Complement. 1697 H. Layton Observ. Money & Coin 2 Some Brittish Princes did Coyn some pieces both of Gold and Silver, of which he there exhibits to us the Specimina. 3. An example, instance, or illustration of something, from which the character of the whole may be inferred. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > exemplifying some rule, activity, quality, etc. asaumplea1250 evidencec1391 piecea1393 examplea1398 samplera1400 exemplarc1475 paradigm1483 instant1560 precedenta1575 exemplification1582 exemplary1583 instance1592 instancy1613 copy1641 specimen1659 patron saint1803 for instance1959 1659 B. Walton Considerator Considered 291 These specimina of his candor and love of truth. 1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 282 He had scarce given a Speciment of his Learning. 1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. Cij You have here a Specimen of Chaucer's Language. 1780 Mirror* No. 97 The conversations of which I have given you a specimen. 1829 J. Mill Anal. Human Mind (1869) I. 133 It is one of those specimens of clear and vigorous statement..in which the Analysis abounds. 1847 R. W. Emerson Shakespeare in Wks. (1906) I. 357 Our English Bible is a wonderful specimen of the strength and music of the English language. 1863 D. G. Mitchell Seven Stories 4 It is a fair specimen of what the Roman stationers could do. 4. a. A single thing selected or regarded as typical of its class; a part or piece of something taken as representative of the whole. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > typical or representative thing or person forbysenc1175 figurea1340 forbyseninga1400 samplera1400 plot1551 pattern1555 resembler1581 representative1653 specimen1654 exponent1825 type1845 typification1845 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 493 Any one may sooner finde a fault, than mend it, in any Specimens, or performances of Art. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 108 Things..of which they had brought Specimens. 1765 Museum Rusticum 4 239 English workmen, who have made specimens of the several articles of equal goodness with those of the Dutch. 1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. vii. 128 We cannot judge of this concealed genius by many specimens we have of her correspondence. 1853 F. D. Maurice Prophets & Kings Old Test. xix. 335 A very memorable chapter of Micah's prophecy,..which our Church has chosen as a specimen of the whole book. 1887 J. R. Lowell Democracy & Other Addr. 96 It was not a bringing of the brick as a specimen of the house. b. (a) spec. An animal, plant, or mineral, a part or portion of some substance or organism, etc., serving as an example of the thing in question for purposes of investigation or scientific study. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > part as representative of the whole > sample or specimen > for the purposes of scientific study specimen1765 1765 Museum Rusticum 4 126 I have found and send a specimen of another yellow trefoil. 1797 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 87 383 I covered one side of a specimen of Iceland crystal, three inches deep, with black paper. 1802 M. Cutler Jrnl. 16 Nov. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 112 Very busy in putting up a box of [botanical] specimens for Mr. Paykull. 1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xvi. 423 Such portions of valuable fluids or solids..intended for specimens. 1854 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson Knapp's Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 121 This determination of the amount of coke yielded by any specimen of coal. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 192 In different specimens, however, the lava exhibits great variations. (b) In extended use: of a person. ΚΠ 1844 S. Wilberforce Hist. Protestant Episc. Church Amer. (1846) 5 The native thus cruelly kidnapped was not the only specimen they gathered. 1850 H. Martineau Introd. Hist. Peace (1877) III. v. xi. 414 He will stand in history as a specimen—dry and curious—but in no way as a vital being. c. With adjectives denoting the value of the example as a type. ΚΠ 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 371 These complimentary sonnets..are not the happiest specimens in our language of these minor poems. 1849 J. H. Parker Introd. Study Gothic Archit. v. 197 Lincoln college chapel is also a very favourable specimen of Jacobean Gothic. 1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 2 If we can show finer and more remarkable specimens than our neighbours, so much the better. 5. Of persons as typical of certain qualities or of the human species. Also colloquial or slang with derogatory force, chiefly with defining adjective, as a bright, poor (etc.) specimen. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > [noun] > as having character or qualities thingc1225 headc1300 vesselc1384 soul1498 sprite?1507 spirit1559 stick1682 character1749 fish1751 hand1756 subject1797 person1807 good1809 specimen1817 a (bad, good, etc.) sortc1869 proposition1894 cookie1913 type1922 city1946 the world > people > person > [noun] > as having character or qualities > specific known quantity1702 specimen1817 classificator1853 brain machine1858 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > that which typically exhibits a quality > person figurer1548 illustrator1598 piece1615 exemplifiera1677 impersonation1797 specimen1817 exemplificator1828 incarnation1833 (a) 1817 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 32 92 Mr. Hickman and Mr. Young..are new specimens of the spirit and the talent, which the times and the cause of freedom have brought forth. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xxi Growling was looking on in amused wonder at this specimen of vulgar effrontery, whom he had christened ‘The Brazen Baggage’, the first time he saw her. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 703 They were perhaps the two most remarkable specimens that the world could show of perverse absurdity. (b)1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 5 ‘Here you are, Sir,’ shouted a strange specimen of the human race.1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 328 Where one continually sees magnificent specimens of human beings.(c)1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 163 There were some curious specimens among my visitors.1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert ii. 15 What was her husband about?.. He must have been a poor specimen. †6. A brief and incomplete account of something in writing; a rough draught or outline serving to show the chief features. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > outlining or sketching > sketch or brief description adumbration1552 specimen1665 sketch1668 superficies1670 silhouette1819 outline sketch1835 thumbnail1900 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia Pref. sig. F2^v Some specimen of each of which Heads the Reader will find in the subsequent delineations. 1672 Life Mede in Mede Wks. (ed. 3) p. xxx To the same effect he had express'd himself in an early Specimen or first Draught of his Thoughts. 7. (See quot. 1819.) ΚΠ 1819 Act 59 Geo. III c. 90 §10 Whereas it is usual for the Officers of Excise to leave on the Premises of the Traders and Manufacturers under their Survey, certain Books or Papers commonly called Specimens, for recording therein the Entries in the Books of such Officers of the state of the Manufactory [etc.]. Compounds C1. attributive, passing into adj. (frequently hyphenated): Serving as, or intended for, a specimen; typical.Often applied to plants, fish, etc., of an exceptionally large size or fine quality. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [adjective] > typical of a class exemplar1570 exemplary1593 typifying1653 speciminal1664 representative1788 typified1851 typal1853 specimen1860 typical1860 1860 G. J. Adler tr. C. C. Fauriel Hist. Provençal Poetry xviii. 421 I have..produced such specimen-quotations as will serve to give us an idea of the decadence of this poetry. 1870 Hist. Sketch Anderston Ch. 9 These specimen facts speak of marvellous changes. 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 251 The highest assay made from specimen rock was $2,000 per ton. 1877 Academy 3 Nov. 428/1 The specimen chapter here given us is on Guicciardini's embassy to Spain in 1511. 1896 Daily News 7 Sept. 7/5 A number of ‘specimen’ fish have lately been caught in the Thames. C2. General attributive. specimen-hunter n. ΚΠ 1896 Westm. Gaz. 4 Nov. 4/1 It used to be a favourite resort of the entomological specimen hunter. specimen-monger n. ΚΠ 1864 C. P. Smyth Our Inherit. in Great Pyramid 18 The hammers of tourists and the axes of specimen-mongers. C3. specimen-book n. a book of specimens or samples. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > part as representative of the whole > sample or specimen > a collection of samples pin paper1673 pattern book1772 pattern card1822 specimen-book1871 sample book1938 swatch-book1956 1871 J. Blackwood Let. 19 Sept. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1956) V. 190 I also send you by Book Post a specimen Book from which you will..be able to select the colour for the paper cover. 1896 T. L. De Vinne in Moxon's Mech. Exerc.: Printing (new ed.) II. 404 The specimen-book of the Enschedé foundry. specimen-box n. a portable box or case specially adapted for carrying botanical or other specimens. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > for other specific contents smoke-box1614 scale-box1708 glass-case1734 deed-box1834 livebox1834 pipe box1834 rose box1863 specimen-box1897 Bible-box1904 message box1976 1897 E. L. Voynich Gadfly I. ii. 21 Arthur brought out his specimen box and plunged into an earnest botanical discussion. specimen page n. a page submitted by a printer as a sample setting for a book. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > material to be printed > [noun] > specimen page specimen page1835 1835 C. Dickens Let. 9 Dec. (1965) I. 102 I have received neither specimen page nor proofs. 1877 W. Pater Let. 30 Jan. (1970) 27 Dear Mr. Macmillan..Of the two specimen pages, I enclose the one I think preferable. 1926 S. Unwin Truth about Publishing ii. 37 As soon as the printers' estimate and specimen page are received and have been checked, the estimate has to be completed by the addition of the cost of paper, binding and other items. 1975 J. Butcher Copy-editing ii. 13 Specimen pages are intended to show solutions to all the general typographical problems that the printers will meet in the book. specimen tree n. a tree planted on its own, away from other plants of a similar size. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > cultivated or valued > [noun] > ornamental furniture-tree1664 street tree1841 ornamental1903 specimen tree1933 1933 A. Osborn Shrubs & Trees for Garden xxiv. 119 Weeping trees are unsuitable for grouping, but very valuable for planting as specimen trees on the lawn. 1961 E. Waugh Unconditional Surrender iii. ii. 230 Guy took to walking..in the public gardens... There were winding paths, specimen trees, statuary. 1980 Amateur Gardening 25 Oct. 15/1 It makes a shapely specimen tree as well as being good for making a hedge or screen. Derivatives ˈspecimenify v. transitive to select as a specimen or instance. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > find or furnish an instance or example of [verb (transitive)] > select as a specimen specimenify1820 1820 C. Lamb Let. 16 May (1935) II. 275 The line you cannot appropriate is Gray's sonnet, specimenifyed by Wordsworth..as mixed of bad and good style. ˈspecimenize v. transitive to show a specimen or sample of; to collect or preserve as a specimen. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > find or furnish an instance or example of [verb (transitive)] > present or collect specimens of specimenize1832 sample1871 1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 32 812 A conceited coxcomb..tormented the birds, and poked the beasts, specimenizing fantastically his ‘universal knowledge’. 1894 ‘Eha’ Naturalist on Prowl 173 I noticed a lovely little silvery spider, and resolved to specimenize it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1610
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