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Spectre   /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.


Spectre  n.  See Specter.





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"Spectre" Quotes from Famous Books



... sight that made those present tremble when they saw the old gray woman, a sublime spectre, standing beside her grandchild's pillow. Terror and vengeance wrote their fierce expressions in the wrinkles that lined her skin of yellow ivory; her forehead, half hidden by the straggling meshes of her gray hair, expressed a ...
— The Celibates - Includes: Pierrette, The Vicar of Tours, and The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac
... ploughshare is buried in rough, unyielding soil. A single figure is joyous and alert in that scene of sweat and toil. It is a fantastic personage, a skeleton armed with a whip, who runs in the furrow beside the terrified horses and belabors them, thus serving the old husbandman as ploughboy. This spectre, which Holbein has introduced allegorically in the succession of philosophical and religious subjects, at once lugubrious and burlesque, entitled the Dance of ...
— The Devil's Pool • George Sand
... was no less a person than Marshal Saxe. One night, on the march, he bivouacked in a haunted castle, and slept the sleep of the brave until midnight, when he was awakened by hideous howls heralding the approach of the spectre. When it appeared, the Marshal first discharged his pistol point-blank at it without effect, and then struck it with his sabre, which was shivered in his hand. The invulnerable spectre then beckoned the amazed Marshal to follow, and preceded him to a spot where the floor of the gallery suddenly ...
— The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent • S.M. Hussey
... on me, and was resolved to invest my little fortune in such a way that I might have a modest competence, so that the dreadful spectre of poverty might never ...
— Jacqueline of Golden River • H. M. Egbert
... is haunting Europe,'' it begins, "the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre—Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the party ...
— Proposed Roads To Freedom • Bertrand Russell


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