specs
Also specks.
[Dial. or colloq. abbreviation of spectacles spectacle n.1]
Spectacles for the eyes.
| α 1807 Hogg Mountain Bard Poet. Wks. 1838 II. 202 The miller.., wi' specks on his nose, To hae an' to view it was wondrous fain. 1815 G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (1826) 40 Wi' specks on nose,..The wary fiend loom'd bluff and big. 1882 Blackmore Christowell xxvii, Must have my thick specks. |
| β 1826 J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 125 Few o' them..that canna read big prent wi' powerfu' specs. 1853 Carlyle in Froude Life C. in Lond. (1884) II. 127 She reads now with specs in the candlelight, as well as I; uses her mother's specs I perceive. 1873 Carleton Farm Ball. 19 She got her specs from off the mantel-shelf. |