Crossword clues for flyspeck
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flyspeck \Fly"speck\ (fl[imac]"sp[e^]k), n. A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot.
Flyspeck \Fly"speck\ (fl[imac]"sp[e^]k), v. t. To soil with flyspecks.
Wiktionary
n. 1 housefly excrement, visible as a minuscule black dot. 2 (context by extension English) Anything tiny or insignificant. vb. 1 To bespeckle with tiny spatters of color. 2 To inspect in minute detail to ensure that something contains no flaws; nitpick.
WordNet
adj. very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy" [syn: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny]
n. a tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a fly
Usage examples of "flyspeck".
A moment later the screen was showing the main clearing down on Flyspeck and crewpeople all over the place, busily doing their work.
It ignored him, going blank and showing him the serene face of Flyspeck turning beneath the ship as she orbited.
There was no doubt that the Federation would be very, very keen to get Flyspeck in.
McCoy was sitting up in the center seat, gazing at the sedately turning shape of Flyspeck underneath them.
After that we will be coasting back in toward Flyspeck, and considering our other options for getting this nasty situation handled.
In the relatively bright light near Flyspeck, all its superstructures and external additions stood out very clearly.
Kirk looked at the screen, and saw less of it than of some night down on Flyspeck, a night full of fire, and the screams of Ornae and burning Lahit.
His mouth was awash in regurgitated Dylar foam, half chewed tablets, flyspeck shards of polymer.
Through the mountains we see it in the lean faces of men in flyspeck villages, stubble on their jaws.
She felt in that small point in time, a flyspeck quarter second or so, that she saw him complete.
Mike summoned the bartender from her jihad on flyspecks, ordered another round of Coors, and offered the opinion that Uncle Sam ought to just wade in and take the oil fields away from the Arabs and be done with it.
The Shroud hanging by the disk of the planet was too far away for Darya to make out details, but the countless flyspecks within the gauzy web must be spacecraft: starships of all sizes and types, more than a million of them netted and warehoused in the Shroud: the biggest collection in the spiral arm, everything from Primavera body form-fits to the monstrous Tantalus orbital forts.
That night we went into town and found a greasy spoon and read the flyspecks and fought off the crickets that came into the cafe to skinnydip in the soup.
African hellholes like Equatorial Guinea, flyspecks on the world map like Sao Tome and Principe, the Comoros and the coral atoll Vanuatu.
Terry stared at the flyspecked wall as she wondered again how to escape.