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Specter   /spˈɛktər/   Listen
noun
Spectre, Specter  n.  
1.
Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom. "The ghosts of traitors from the bridge descend, With bold fanatic specters to rejoice."
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
The tarsius.
(b)
A stick insect.
Specter bat (Zool.), any phyllostome bat.
Specter candle (Zool.), a belemnite.
Specter shrimp (Zool.), a skeleton shrimp. See under Skeleton.





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"Specter" Quotes from Famous Books



... head to their monstrous body." Two leaders indeed appeared, Davis and Pate by name, but having neither the standing nor the strength of the Virginia rebels, they were finally taken and hanged. What supporters they had dispersed, and the specter ...
— Pioneers of the Old South - A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings, Volume 5 In - The Chronicles Of America Series • Mary Johnston
... seek that rest that will bring Nepenthe to his dreams, but the specter of that murdered old man will arise before his vision, and rest is impossible. Ah, how many long, weary days and nights, fraught with terror and remorse, will come to this unfortunate man ere he finds a final release and ...
— Bucholz and the Detectives • Allan Pinkerton
... the specter of scandal, as it touched the Remingtons, touching that dearest purchase of femininity, social standing; there was the specter of poverty, which threatened from the exposure of the source of her income and the enforcement of the law; nearer and quite as poignant, ...
— The Sturdy Oak - A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors • Samuel Merwin, et al.
... intrusive, yet always by her side and at her beck and call, never at a loss to do and say the right thing, Miller had wooed her in his own masterful way, trampling down prejudice, suspicion, unbelief, until he had gained his heritage—love. The specter of the past was laid—involuntarily ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... was fated to be a sight-seer that morning. When he entered Buckingham Palace Road, the strains of martial music banished the gaunt specter called into being by the red cotton banner. A policeman, more cheerful and spry than his comrades who marshaled the procession shuffling towards Westminster, strode to the center of the busy crossing, and cast an alert eye on the converging lines of traffic. Another section of the ever-ready ...
— The Wheel O' Fortune • Louis Tracy


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