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/spˈɛʃəlti/ /spˈeɪʃəlti/ Listen

noun

Specialty n. (pl. specialties)

Particularity. "Specialty of rule hath been neglected."

A particular or peculiar case. (Obs.)

(Law) A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified. "Let specialties be therefore drawn between us."

That for which a person is distinguished, in which he is specially versed, or which he makes an object of special attention; a speciality. "Men of boundless knowledge, like Humbold, must have had once their specialty, their pet subject."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Specialty" Quotes from Famous Books

... industrial technique. 'The native villages,' relates a Belgian observer of the Lower Congo, 'are often situated in groups. Their activities are based upon reciprocality, and they are to a certain extent the complements of one another. Each group has its more or less strongly defined specialty. One carries on fishing; another produces palm wine; a third devotes itself to trade and is broker for the others, supplying the community with all products from outside; another has reserved to itself ...

— The Negro • W.E.B. Du Bois

... 256) the most powerful and most feared of sorcerers [in Chinese Turkestan] is the djaduger, who, to produce rain or fine weather, uses a jade stone, given by Noah to Japhet. Grenard adds (II. 406-407) there are sorcerers (Ngag-pa-snags-pa) whose specialty is to make rain fall; they are similar to the Turkish Yadachi and like them use a stone called "water cristal," chu ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

... gather moss," she taunted him; "my specialty is hats," and then she explained for the first time the peculiar side-line in which she was engaged. It was their first discussion of any subject dealing with the practical side of her life, and Bob was keenly ...

— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne

... for Main Street and Westy took all the papers for three other streets and Connie and Wig took the rest, all except a few scattered around in different parts of town, and Pee-wee took those, because he makes a specialty of scout pace. I thought that maybe we'd have trouble about finding some places, but what did we care? It ...

— Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... a great idea of fidelity; and though I suspect he laughs a little inwardly at times at the grand airs "Science" puts on, as she stands marking time, but not getting on, while the trumpets are blowing and the big drums beating,—yet I am sure he has a liking for his specialty, and a respect for ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various

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