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Speck

n.
  1. The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.
    2. Speck falls (Naut.),
    falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel.

n.
  1. A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit.
  2. A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.
  3. (Zoöl.) A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmæa) common in the Eastern United States.

v. t.
  1. To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture.