the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. See stylet, 2.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. In medicine, a probe.
n. A lens; an eye-glass.
Word Usage
"I recommend seven or eight small pieces of iron to be prepared, a fathom in size, in thickness like a thick specillum, and bent at the extremity, and a broad piece should be on the extremity, like a small obolus."