specsn.

Forms: Also specks.

Etymology: Dialect or colloquial abbreviation of spectacles spectacle n.¹

Spectacles for the eyes.

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the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > spectacles

spectaclec1386

a pair of spectacles1423

ocularies?a1425

barnaclea1566

eye1568

sight-glasses1605

glass eye1608

prospective glass1616

sights1619

prospectivea1635

nose-compasses1654

glass1660

lunettes1681

peeper1699

eyeglass1760

specs1807

winker1816

gig-lamps1853

nose-riders1875

window1896

cheaters1920

α.

1807 J. Hogg Mountain Bard in Poet. Wks. (1838) II. 202 The miller.., wi' specks on his nose, To hae an' to view it was wondrous fain.

1818 G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (ed. 2) 40 Wi' specks on nose,..The wary fiend loom'd bluff and big.

1882 R. D. Blackmore Christowell xxvii Must have my thick specks.

β. 1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 497 Few o' them..that canna read big prent wi' powerfu' specs.1853 T. Carlyle Let. Jan. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: Life in London (1884) II. xxi. 127 She reads now with specs in the candle-light, as well as I; uses her mother's specs I perceive.1873 W. Carleton Farm Ballads 19 She got her specs from off the mantel-shelf.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	specs
释义	specsn. Forms: Also specks. Etymology: Dialect or colloquial abbreviation of spectacles spectacle n.¹ Spectacles for the eyes. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > spectacles spectaclec1386 a pair of spectacles1423 ocularies?a1425 barnaclea1566 eye1568 sight-glasses1605 glass eye1608 prospective glass1616 sights1619 prospectivea1635 nose-compasses1654 glass1660 lunettes1681 peeper1699 eyeglass1760 specs1807 winker1816 gig-lamps1853 nose-riders1875 window1896 cheaters1920 α. 1807 J. Hogg Mountain Bard in Poet. Wks. (1838) II. 202 The miller.., wi' specks on his nose, To hae an' to view it was wondrous fain. 1818 G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (ed. 2) 40 Wi' specks on nose,..The wary fiend loom'd bluff and big. 1882 R. D. Blackmore Christowell xxvii Must have my thick specks. β. 1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 497 Few o' them..that canna read big prent wi' powerfu' specs.1853 T. Carlyle Let. Jan. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: Life in London (1884) II. xxi. 127 She reads now with specs in the candle-light, as well as I; uses her mother's specs I perceive.1873 W. Carleton Farm Ballads 19 She got her specs from off the mantel-shelf. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1807
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