a. [f. as prec.]

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  1.  Provided with or wearing spectacles.

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1607.  Shaks., Cor., II. i. 221. All tongues speake of him, and the bleared sights Are spectacled to see him.

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1624.  Middleton, Game at Chess, II. i. When the Inquisitors came all spectacled To pick out syllables.

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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.

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1818.  Scott, Hrt. Midl., vi. Half-scared by the … spectacled old lady, by whom these tempting stores are watched.

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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.

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1886.  W. J. Tucker, E. Europe, 215. A couple of spectacled professional gentlemen.

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  b.  With distinguishing adjs.

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1884.  G. Allen, Philistia, I. 12. There was honesty … in those hazy blue-spectacled eyes.

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1896.  Idler, March, 247/2. This innocent-looking little gold-spectacled bald-headed gentleman.

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  2.  In names of birds, animals, etc., having spectacle-shaped markings or the appearance of wearing spectacles (see quots. and SPECTACLE sb.1 9 b).

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1831.  Griffith, trans. Cuvier, IX. Syn. 21. *Spectacled Alligator, Crocodilus (Alligator) Sclerops.

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1835.  Penny Cycl., IV. 87. The *Spectacled Bear, Ursus Ornatus of F. Cuvier, inhabits the Cordilleras of the Andes in Chili.

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1894.  Lydekker, Roy. Nat. Hist., II. 23. The spectacled bear of the Peruvian Andes … is a small-sized black species.

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1830.  Griffith, trans. Cuvier, XI. 188. The *Spectacled Cayman (Crocodilus Sclerops) is the most common in Cayenne.

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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.

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c. 1880.  Cassell’s Nat. Hist., IV. 304. The natives say that the Spectacled Cobra is a Snake of the city or town.

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1872.  Coues, N. Amer. Birds, 292. *Spectacled Eider…. A whitish space round eye, bounded by black. Ibid. (1884), 815. U[ria] carbo…. *Spectacled Guillemot.

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1896.  Lydekker, Roy. Nat. Hist., V. 298. The little *spectacled salamander (Salamandrina perspicillata) of Italy.

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1831.  Griffith, trans. Cuvier, IX. 274. Named *Spectacled Serpent, from a black line drawn on the widened part of its disk in the form of spectacles.

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1861.  Hulme, trans. Moquin-Tandon, II. V. i. 259. The Naia or Spectacled Serpents, [called also the Hooded Snakes,] have the body large anteriorly.

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1834.  Encycl. Metrop. (1845), XXII. 397/1. The Snakemen [of India] … never use in their shows any other poisonous Snake than the *Spectacled Snake.

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1871.  Cassell’s Nat. Hist., I. 262. Leaf-like organs, often of the most extraordinary forms (see the Head of the *Spectacled Vampire).

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1829.  Griffith, trans. Cuvier, VI. 446. *Spectacled Warbler, Sylvia Conspicillata.

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1894–5.  Lydekker, Roy. Nat. Hist., III. 493. The spectacled warbler builds its nest in a small bush about a foot from the ground.

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