Found 2 items, similar to Specter.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: specter specter n 1: a mental representation of some haunting experience; “he looked like he had seen a ghost”; “it aroused specters from his past” [syn: ghost, shade, spook, wraith, spectre] 2: a ghostly appearing figure; “we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us” [syn: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, spectre]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Specter Specter \Spec"ter\, Spectre \Spec"tre\, n. [F. spectre, fr. L. spectrum an appearance, image, specter, fr. specere to look. See Spy, and cf. Spectrum.] 1. Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom. [1913 Webster] The ghosts of traitors from the bridge descend, With bold fanatic specters to rejoice. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The tarsius. (b) A stick insect. [1913 Webster] Specter bat (Zo["o]l.), any phyllostome bat. Specter candle (Zo["o]l.), a belemnite. Specter shrimp (Zo["o]l.), a skeleton shrimp. See under Skeleton. [1913 Webster]