specter : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: specter	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for specter
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
specter n a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" Synonym(s): ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us" Synonym(s): apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Specter \Spec"ter\, Spectre \Spec"tre\, n. [F. spectre, fr. L. spectrum an appearance, image, specter, fr. specere to look. See {Spy}, and cf. {Spectrum}.] 1. Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom. The ghosts of traitors from the bridge descend, With bold fanatic specters to rejoice. --Dryden. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The tarsius. (b) A stick insect. {Specter bat} (Zo[94]l.), any phyllostome bat. {Specter candle} (Zo[94]l.), a belemnite. {Specter shrimp} (Zo[94]l.), a skeleton shrimp. See under {Skeleton}.