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Fair :: Fair (superl.) Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure..

Speck :: Speck (v. t.) To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture..

Speckled :: Speckled (a.) Marked or variegated with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface.

Picine :: Picine (a.) Of or pertaining to the woodpeckers (Pici), or to the Piciformes..

Wallhick :: Wallhick (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor).

Zygodactylous :: Zygodactylous (a.) Yoke-footed; having the toes disposed in pairs; -- applied to birds which have two toes before and two behind, as the parrot, cuckoo, woodpecker, etc..

Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..

Kenspeckle :: Kenspeckle (a.) Having so marked an appearance as easily to be recognized.

Flyspeck :: Flyspeck (n.) A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot..

Opopanax :: Opopanax (n.) The inspissated juice of an umbelliferous plant (the Opoponax Chironum), brought from Turkey and the East Indies in loose granules, or sometimes in larger masses, of a reddish yellow color, with specks of white. It has a strong smell and acrid taste, and was formerly used in medicine as an emmenagogue and antispasmodic..

Bespeckled :: Bespeckled (imp. & p. p.) of Bespeckl.

Pecker :: Pecker (n.) An instrument for pecking; a pick.

Homer :: Homer (n.) A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts..

Bushel :: Bushel (n.) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts..

Wryneck :: Wryneck (n.) Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus Jynx, allied to the woodpeckers; especially, the common European species (J. torguilla); -- so called from its habit of turning the neck around in different directions. Called also cuckoo's mate, snakebird, summer bird, tonguebird, and writheneck..

Specht :: Specht (n.) A woodpecker.

Piculet :: Piculet (n.) Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers..

Dot :: Dot (n.) A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark..

Chab :: Chab (n.) The red-bellied wood pecker (Melanerpes Carolinus).

Hewhole :: Hewhole (n.) The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle.

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