Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Speck \Speck\, n. [OE. spekke, AS. specca; cf. LG. spaak.]
   1. A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small
      place of a color different from that of the main
      substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on
      paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit. ``Gray sand, with
      black specks.'' --Anson.

   2. A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of
      dust; he has not a speck of money.

            Many bright specks bubble up along the blue Egean.
                                                  --Landor.

   3. (Zo["o]l.) A small etheostomoid fish ({Ulocentra
      stigm[ae]a}) common in the Eastern United States.