Words - skip - Brewer’s

Spectrum, Spectra, Spectre (Latin, specto, to behold)

.

In optics a spectrum is the image of a sunbeam beheld on a screen, after refraction by one or more prisms. Spectra are the images of objects left on the eye after the objects themselves are removed from sight. A spectre is the apparition of a person no longer living or not bodily present.

· ·

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

· ·

Speaker’s Eye

Speaking Heads and Sounding Stones

Spear of Ithuriel (The)

Special Pleading

Specie, Species

Spectre of the Brocken

Spectrum, Spectra, Spectre (Latin, specto, to behold)

Spenser (Edmund)