n. sing. & | 1. | Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image. |
| 2. | (Logic) A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer individuals. Thus, man is a species, under animal as a genus; and man, in its turn, may be regarded as a genus with respect to European, American, or the like, as species. |
| 3. | In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation. |
| 4. | A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth. |
| 5. | Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie. |
| 6. | A public spectacle or exhibition. |
| 7. | (Pharmacy) A component part of a compound medicine; a simple. |
| 8. | (Civil Law) The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure. |