Usage examples (10)

• It will be seen that the specus or channel is 60 centimeters (or nearly 2 ft.) wide, and 1m. 57c.
• “Horrendum incultumque specus.” and the European merchants, when they come up here are glad to get away as soon as possible.
• Then I perceived very soon, that the authors who had worked upon this matter took the coloured rays upon the specus out of the prism; but none of them minded how they...
• The specus or channel itself was, of course, constructed of masonry, generally of blocks of stone cemented together, and it was frequently, though not, it would appear...