Shak.
Darts, which not the good could shun, The speedy ould outfly.
Dryden.
Speer (?), n. A sphere. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Speer, v. t. To ask. [Scot.] See Spere.
Speet (?), v. t. [Cf. D. speten. See Spit an iron prong.] To stab.
[Obs.] Gammer Gurton's Needle.
Speight (?), n. [G. specht, probably akin to L. picus: cf. D. specht.
√169. See Pie a magpie.] (Zoöl.) A woodpecker; -- called also
specht, spekt, spight. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Speir (?), v. i. To ask. See Spere. Sir W. Scott.
Speis`ko"balt (?), n. [G.] Smaltite.
Speiss (?), n. [Cf. G. speise food, mixed metal for bells, etc.]
(Metal.) A regulus consisting essentially of nickel, obtained as a
residue in fusing cobalt and nickel ores with silica and sodium
carbonate to make smalt.
Spek"boom (?), n. [D., lit. fat tree.] (Bot.) The purslane tree of
South Africa, -- said to be the favorite food of elephants. Balfour
(Cyc. of India).
Speke (?), v. i. & t. To speak. [Obs.] Chaucer.