Meaning

• A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.

  "a tiny speck of soot"

• A very small thing; a particle; a whit.

  "He has not a speck of money."

• A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.

Meaning

• To mark with specks; to speckle.

  "paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture"