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Webster 1913 Edition
Specillum
‖
Spe-cil′lum
,Noun.
[L.]
(Med.)
See
Stylet
, 2.
Syn. – Sample; model; pattern.
– Specimen
, Sample
. A specimen is a representative of the class of things to which it belongs; as, a specimen of photography. A sample is a part of the thing itself, designed to show the quality of the whole; as, a sample of sugar or of broadcloth. A cabinet of minerals consists of specimens; if a part be broken off from any one of these, it is a sample of the mineral to which it belongs. “Several persons have exhibited specimens of this art before multitudes of beholders.” Addison.
“I design this but for a sample of what I hope more fully to discuss.” Woodward.