spectacled, a.
(ˈspɛktək(ə)ld)
[f. as prec.]
1. Provided with or wearing spectacles.
| 1607 Shakes. Cor. ii. i. 221 All tongues speake of him, and the bleared sights Are spectacled to see him. 1624 Middleton Game at Chess ii. i, When the Inquisitors came all spectacled To pick out syllables. 1779 Mirror No. 8, Those grave personages, whom you may observe daily..rising in a coffee-house in the full dignity of a spectacled nose. 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. vi, Half-scared by the..spectacled old lady, by whom these tempting stores are watched. 1852 R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour xxix. 175, ‘I think it will be a fine day,’ he said,..turning his spectacled face up to the clouds. 1886 W. J. Tucker E. Europe 215 A couple of spectacled professional gentlemen. |
b. With distinguishing
adjs.| 1884 G. Allen Philistia I. 12 There was honesty..in those hazy blue-spectacled eyes. 1896 Idler Mar. 247/2 This innocent-looking little gold-spectacled bald-headed gentleman. |
2. In names of birds, animals, etc., having spectacle-shaped markings or the appearance of wearing spectacles (see
quots. and
spectacle n.1 9 b).
| 1831 Griffith tr. Cuvier IX. Syn. 21 *Spectacled Alligator, Crocodilus (Alligator) Sclerops. |
| 1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 87 The *Spectacled Bear, Ursus Ornatus of F. Cuvier, inhabits the Cordilleras of the Andes in Chili. 1894 Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. II. 23 The spectacled bear of the Peruvian Andes..is a small-sized black species. |
| 1830 Griffith tr. Cuvier XI. 188 The *Spectacled Cayman (Crocodilus Sclerops) is the most common in Cayenne. |
| 1854 Owen in Orr's Circ. Sci., Org. Nat. I. 197 They sustain a fold of integument, peculiarly coloured in some species— e.g., the *spectacled cobra. c 1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 304 The natives say that the Spectacled Cobra is a Snake of the city or town. |
| 1872 Coues N. Amer. Birds 292 *Spectacled Eider,..a whitish space round eye, bounded by black. |
| 1884 Ibid. 815 Uria carbo,..*Spectacled Guillemot. |
| 1896 Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. V. 298 The little *spectacled salamander (Salamandrina perspicillata) of Italy. |
| 1831 Griffith tr. Cuvier IX. 274 Named *Spectacled Serpent, from a black line drawn on the widened part of its disk in the form of spectacles. 1861 Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. v. i. 259 The Naia or Spectacled Serpents—called also the Hooded Snakes. |
| 1834 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXII. 397/1 The Snakemen [of India]..never use in their shows any other poisonous Snake than the *Spectacled Snake. |
| 1871 Cassell's Nat. Hist. I. 262 Leaf-like organs, often of the most extraordinary forms (see the Head of the *Spectacled Vampire). |
| 1829 Griffith tr. Cuvier VI. 446 *Spectacled Warbler, Sylvia Conspicillata. 1894–5 Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. III. 493 The spectacled warbler builds its nest in a small bush about a foot from the ground. |