Also specks. [Dial. or colloq. abbreviation of spectacles SPECTACLE sb.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), 4. 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, except they be blin’ a’thegither, 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.
