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spectre

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun spectre has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

spectren. [F. spectre, fr. L. spectrum an appearance, image, specter, fr. specere to look. See Spy, and cf. Spectrum.].
  •  Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom.  [1913 Webster]
    "The ghosts of traitors from the bridge descend,
    With bold fanatic specters to rejoice.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  The tarsius.  [1913 Webster]
Specter bat (Zoöl.), any phyllostome bat. -- Specter candle (Zoöl.), a belemnite. -- Specter shrimp (Zoöl.), a skeleton shrimp. See under Skeleton.
spectren. 

OXFORD DICTIONARY

spectre, n. (US specter)
1 a ghost.
2 a haunting presentiment or preoccupation (the spectre of war).
3 (in comb.) used in the names of some animals because of their thinness, transparency, etc. (spectre-bat; spectre-crab).

Idiom
Spectre of the Brocken a huge shadowy image of the observer projected on mists about a mountain-top (observed on the Brocken in Germany).
Etymology
F spectre or L spectrum: see SPECTRUM
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