Spears
"Spears of light" The spears of light are Inchoroi weapons of staggering destructive power. Created with the long-lost secrets of the Tekne , the spears are long and tipped with projections from which beams of light can be "cast". These beams are immensely destructive, able to slice through any known material. They inflict searing heat in the vicinity of the beam. The spears of light were used liberally by the Inchoroi at the Battle of Pir Pahal , but their power was checked by Nonmen sorcery. The most notable weapon was Suörgil, "Shining Death", known to men as the Heron Spear . It was wielded by the Inchoroi King, Sil , until he was slain by Cû’jara-Cinmoi , High King of Siöl . Cû’jara-Cinmoi took up the weapon and wielded it in battle himself. The Inchoroi deployed spears of light in unprecedented numbers during the Battle of Pir Minginnial . The fate of the Heron Spear itself in this battle is unclear, but it is likely that Sin’niroiha was able to recover it and return it to Ishoriöl , where it was maintained in state for millennia. The weapon was stolen from Ishoriöl by Cet’ingira and restored to Golgotterath circa 750 Year-of-the-Tusk. It was stolen back by Seswatha and Anasûrimbor Nau-Cayûti in 2140. The weapon was feared lost at the Battle of Eleneöt Fields , but in reality it was taken to safety by Anaxophus V , High King of Kyraneas . In 2154 Anaxophus and his army forced the No-God to take the field directly at the Second Battle of Mengedda , where Anaxophus cast a beam from the Heron Spear that apparently penetrated the Sarcophagus and killed the No-God outright, ending the Apocalypse . The Heron Spear resided in Cenei for many centuries before it was lost in the Scylvendi sack of the city in 3351. The weapon's current whereabouts is unknown. The other spears of light gradually ceased functioning, apparently denuded of power. By the time of the Battle of Isal’imial , they had ceased functioning altogether, apart from one. The Sun Lance , the personal weapon of the Inchoroi Aurang , was preserved and was used during the Siege of Ishterebinth during the First Apocalypse . It survived until the Great Ordeal 's assault on Golgotterath, when a Nonman sniper used it against the attacking army, inflicting significant casualties. Anasûrimbor Kellhus seized the weapon and used it to topple the Canted Horn, killing uncounted numbers of sranc . The fate of the weapon after that point is unknown.

Spears of light
The spears of light are Inchoroi weapons of staggering destructive power. Created with the long-lost secrets of the Tekne , the spears are long and tipped with projections from which beams of light can be "cast". These beams are immensely destructive, able to slice through any known material. They inflict searing heat in the vicinity of the beam. The spears of light were used liberally by the Inchoroi at the Battle of Pir Pahal , but their power was checked by Nonmen sorcery. The most notable weapon was Suörgil, "Shining Death", known to men as the Heron Spear . It was wielded by the Inchoroi King, Sil , until he was slain by Cû’jara-Cinmoi , High King of Siöl . Cû’jara-Cinmoi took up the weapon and wielded it in battle himself. The Inchoroi deployed spears of light in unprecedented numbers during the Battle of Pir Minginnial . The fate of the Heron Spear itself in this battle is unclear, but it is likely that Sin’niroiha was able to recover it and return it to Ishoriöl , where it was maintained in state for millennia. The weapon was stolen from Ishoriöl by Cet’ingira and restored to Golgotterath circa 750 Year-of-the-Tusk. It was stolen back by Seswatha and Anasûrimbor Nau-Cayûti in 2140. The weapon was feared lost at the Battle of Eleneöt Fields , but in reality it was taken to safety by Anaxophus V , High King of Kyraneas . In 2154 Anaxophus and his army forced the No-God to take the field directly at the Second Battle of Mengedda , where Anaxophus cast a beam from the Heron Spear that apparently penetrated the Sarcophagus and killed the No-God outright, ending the Apocalypse . The Heron Spear resided in Cenei for many centuries before it was lost in the Scylvendi sack of the city in 3351. The weapon's current whereabouts is unknown. The other spears of light gradually ceased functioning, apparently denuded of power. By the time of the Battle of Isal’imial , they had ceased functioning altogether, apart from one. The Sun Lance , the personal weapon of the Inchoroi Aurang , was preserved and was used during the Siege of Ishterebinth during the First Apocalypse . It survived until the Great Ordeal 's assault on Golgotterath, when a Nonman sniper used it against the attacking army, inflicting significant casualties. Anasûrimbor Kellhus seized the weapon and used it to topple the Canted Horn, killing uncounted numbers of sranc . The fate of the weapon after that point is unknown.

Spirals
"Book of Circles and Spirals" The Book of Circles and Spirals is the magnum opus of Sorainas , providing an entertaining blend of philosophical commentary and religious aphorism.

Excerpts

“Sleep, when deep enough, is indistinguishable from vigilance.”

Spires
"Scarlet Spires" The Scarlet Spires are the most powerful Anagogic School of the Three Seas and de facto ruler of High Ainon .

History

The roots of the Scarlet Spires reach as far back as ancient Shir (to this day traditionalists within the School refer to themselves as the "shiradi"). In many ways the development of the Scarlet Spires exemplifies the development of every Three Seas School, that of loose networks of sorcerous practicioners becoming progressively more organized and insular in the face of chronic, religiously motivated persecution. Originally called the Surartu -- "Hooded Singers" -- the Scarlet Spires secured the river fortress of Kiz in Carythusal c. 1800 and emerged from the chaos surrounding the Apocalypse , the collapse of Shir, and the Great Pestilence as one of the most powerful factions in ancient Ainon. Sometime around 2350, Kiz was severely damaged in an earthquake and subsequently covered with red enamel tiles in the reconstruction, thus leading to the School's now-famous moniker. The symbol of the Scarlet Spires is a three-headed serpent.

Participation in the Holy War

In 4100, the then-Grandmaster of the Scarlet Spires, Sasheoka , was assassinated by the Cishaurim , who believed the Scarlet Spires responsible for skin-spies discovered in Shimeh . Sasheoka's successor as Grandmaster, Hanamanu Eleäzaras , sought vengeance, and waged a secret war against the Cishaurim for ten years. When a Holy War was announced against the Fanim by Maithanet , Shriah of the Thousand Temples , in 4110, the Scarlet Spires agreed to offer their support. The Scarlet Spires wished to minimize their involvement in the conflict, as they were few in number and significant losses could reduce the standing of the School. As such, they took to the field only when Cishaurim were present among the enemy forces.

Known Members

- Amrezzer (Grandmaster)
- Calasthenes
- Ekompiras
- Girûmmû Tansiri
- Hanamanu Eleäzaras (Grandmaster)
- Hem-Arkidu
- Heramari Iyokus (Grandmaster)
- Inrûmmi
- Khui Shinurta (Grandmaster)
- Madarezer Ukrummu
- Myrathimi
- Naïn
- Narstheba
- Nem-Panipal
- Ptarramas
- Rimon
- Sampileth (founder)
- Sarosthenes
- Sasheoka (Grandmaster)
- Saurnemmi
- Thirûmmû Sek
- Ti
- Tsotekara (Grandmaster)
- Yutirames

Spur
"Unaras Spur" The Unaras Spur is a low mountain range that extends from the southern terminus of the Hethanta Mountains to the Meneanor Sea coast, marking the geographical frontier between the Kyranae Plains and Gedea .

spa
-a spring or mineral water;
-- so called from a place of this name in belgium.

spaad
-a kind of spar; earth flax, or amianthus.

space
-extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.
-place, having more or less extension; room.
-a quantity or portion of extension; distance from one thing to another; an interval between any two or more objects; as, the space between two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a mile.
-quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time.
-a short time; a while.
-walk; track; path; course.
-a small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing,
-- used to separate words or letters.
-the distance or interval between words or letters in the lines, or between lines, as in books.
-one of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff.
-to walk; to rove; to roam.
-to arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters.

spaced
-of space

spaceful
-wide; extensive.

spacelate
-to die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.

spaceless
-without space.

spacial
-see spatial.

spacially
-see spatially.

spacious
-extending far and wide; vast in extent.
-inclosing an extended space; having large or ample room; not contracted or narrow; capacious; roomy; as, spacious bounds; a spacious church; a spacious hall.

spacong
-of space

spadassin
-a bravo; a bully; a duelist.

spaddle
-a little spade.

spade
-a hart or stag three years old.
-a castrated man or beast.
-an implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel.
-one of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.
-a cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
-to dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.

spadebone
-shoulder blade.

spaded
-of spade

spadefish
-an american market fish (chaetodipterus faber) common on the southern coasts;
-- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.

spadefoot
-any species of burrowing toads of the genus scaphiopus, esp. s. holbrookii, of the eastern united states;
-- called also spade toad.

spadeful
-as much as a spade will hold or lift.

spadefuls
-of spadeful

spader
-one who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine.

spadiceous
-of a bright clear brown or chestnut color.
-bearing flowers on a spadix; of the nature of a spadix.

spadices
-of spadix

spadicose
-spadiceous.

spadille
-the ace of spades in omber and quadrille.

spading
-of spade

spadix
-a fleshy spike of flowers, usually inclosed in a leaf called a spathe.
-a special organ of the nautilus, due to a modification of the posterior tentacles.

spadixes
-of spadix

spado
-same as spade, 2.
-an impotent person.

spadones
-of spado

spadroon
-a sword, especially a broadsword, formerly used both to cut and thrust.

spae
-to foretell; to divine.

spaed
-of spae

spaeing
-of spae

spaeman
-a prophet; a diviner.

spaewife
-a female fortune teller.

spaghetti
-a variety or macaroni made in tubes of small diameter.

spagyric
-alt. of spagyrical
-a spagyrist.

spagyrical
-chemical; alchemical.

spagyrist
-a chemist, esp. one devoted to alchemistic pursuits.
-one of a sect which arose in the days of alchemy, who sought to discover remedies for disease by chemical means. the spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists.

spahee
-formerly, one of the turkish cavalry.
-an algerian cavalryman in the french army.

spahi
-alt. of spahee

spaid
-see 1st spade.

spake
-imp. of speak.
-of speak

spakenet
-a net for catching crabs.

spaky
-specky.

spalding knife
-a spalting knife.

spale
-a lath; a shaving or chip, as of wood or stone.
-a strengthening cross timber.

spall
-the shoulder.
-a chip or fragment, especially a chip of stone as struck off the block by the hammer, having at least one feather
-edge.
-to break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of separating from rock.
-to reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.
-to give off spalls, or wedge
-shaped chips;
-- said of stone, as when badly set, with the weight thrown too much on the outer surface.

spalpeen
-a scamp; an irish term for a good
-for
-nothing fellow;
-- often used in good
-humored contempt or ridicule.

spalt
-spelter.
-liable to break or split; brittle; as, spalt timber.
-heedless; clumsy; pert; saucy.
-to split off; to cleave off, as chips from a piece of timber, with an ax.

spalting knife
-a knife used in splitting codfish.

span
-imp. & p. p. of spin.
-the space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.
-hence, a small space or a brief portion of time.
-the spread or extent of an arch between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between its supports.
-a rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
-a pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
-to measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object; as, to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder.
-to reach from one side of to the order; to stretch over as an arch.
-to fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
-to be matched, as horses.
-of spin

span
-new
-quite new; brand
-new; fire
-new.

spanaemia
-a condition of impoverishment of the blood; a morbid state in which the red corpuscles, or other important elements of the blood, are deficient.

spanaemic
-of or pertaining to spanaemia; having impoverished blood.

spancel
-a rope used for tying or hobbling the legs of a horse or cow.
-to tie or hobble with a spancel.

spanceled
-of spancel

spanceling
-of spancel

spancelled
-of spancel

spancelling
-of spancel

spandogs
-a pair of grappling dogs for hoisting logs and timber.

spandrel
-the irregular triangular space between the curve of an arch and the inclosing right angle; or the space between the outer moldings of two contiguous arches and a horizontal line above them, or another arch above and inclosing them.
-a narrow mat or passe partout for a picture.

spane
-to wean.

spang
-to spangle.
-to spring; to bound; to leap.
-a bound or spring.
-a spangle or shining ornament.

spangle
-a small plate or boss of shining metal; something brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on the dress.
-figuratively, any little thing that sparkless.
-to set or sprinkle with, or as with, spangles; to adorn with small, distinct, brilliant bodies; as, a spangled breastplate.
-to show brilliant spots or points; to glisten; to glitter.

spangled
-of spangle

spangler
-one who, or that which, spangles.

spangling
-of spangle

spangly
-resembling, or consisting of, spangles; glittering; as, spangly light.

spaniard
-a native or inhabitant of spain.

spaniel
-one of a breed of small dogs having long and thick hair and large drooping ears. the legs are usually strongly feathered, and the tail bushy. see illust. under clumber, and cocker.
-a cringing, fawning person.
-cringing; fawning.
-to fawn; to cringe; to be obsequious.
-to follow like a spaniel.

spanish
-of or pertaining to spain or the spaniards.
-the language of spain.

spank
-to strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap.
-a blow with the open hand; a slap.
-to move with a quick, lively step between a trot and gallop; to move quickly.

spanked
-of spank

spanker
-one who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for spanking.
-the after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore
-and
-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff;
-- sometimes called driver. see illust. under sail.
-one who takes long, quick strides in walking; also, a fast horse.
-something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as a stout or tall person.
-a small coin.

spanking
-of spank
-moving with a quick, lively pace, or capable of so doing; dashing.
-large; considerable.

spanking breeze
-a strong breeze.

spanless
-incapable of being spanned.

spanned
-of span

spanner
-one who, or that which, spans.
-the lock of a fusee or carbine; also, the fusee or carbine itself.
-an iron instrument having a jaw to fit a nut or the head of a bolt, and used as a lever to turn it with; a wrench; specifically, a wrench for unscrewing or tightening the couplings of hose.
-a contrivance in some of the ealier steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam.

spanning
-of span

spannishing
-the full blooming of a flower.

spanpiece
-the collar of a roof; sparpiece.

spanworm
-the larva of any geometrid moth, as the cankeworm; a geometer; a measuring worm.

spar
-an old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. it was especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous vein.
-a general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.
-formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense;
-- still applied locally to rafters.
-the bar of a gate or door.
-to bolt; to bar.
-to to supply or equip with spars, as a vessel.
-to strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
-to use the fists and arms scientifically in attack or defense; to contend or combat with the fists, as for exercise or amusement; to box.
-to contest in words; to wrangle.
-a contest at sparring or boxing.
-a movement of offense or defense in boxing.

spar
-hung
-hung with spar, as a cave.

sparable
-a kind of small nail used by shoemakers.

sparada
-a small california surf fish (micrometrus aggregatus);
-- called also shiner.

sparadrap
-a cerecloth.
-any adhesive plaster.

sparage
-alt. of sparagrass

sparagrass
-obs. or corrupt forms of asparagus.

sparagus
-alt. of sparagrass

sparble
-to scatter; to disperse; to rout.

spare
-to use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save.
-to keep to one's self; to forbear to impart or give.
-to preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to.
-to save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
-to deprive one's self of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
-to be frugal; not to be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
-to refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
-to desist; to stop; to refrain.
-scanty; not abundant or plentiful; as, a spare diet.
-sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary.
-being over and above what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous; as, i have no spare time.
-held in reserve, to be used in an emergency; as, a spare anchor; a spare bed or room.
-lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
-slow.
-the act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
-parsimony; frugal use.
-an opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
-that which has not been used or expended.
-the right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. if all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.

spared
-of spare

spareful
-sparing; chary.

spareless
-unsparing.

sparely
-in a spare manner; sparingly.

spareness
-the quality or state of being lean or thin; leanness.

sparer
-one who spares.

sparerib
-a piece of pork, consisting or ribs with little flesh on them.

sparge
-to sprinkle; to moisten by sprinkling; as, to sparge paper.

spargefaction
-the act of sprinkling.

sparger
-a vessel with a perforated cover, for sprinkling with a liquid; a sprinkler.

sparhawk
-the sparrow hawk.

sparing
-of spare
-spare; saving; frugal; merciful.

spark
-a small particle of fire or ignited substance which is emitted by a body in combustion.
-a small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle.
-that which, like a spark, may be kindled into a flame, or into action; a feeble germ; an elementary principle.
-a brisk, showy, gay man.
-a lover; a gallant; a beau.
-to sparkle.
-to play the spark, beau, or lover.

sparker
-a spark arrester.

sparkful
-lively; brisk; gay.

sparkish
-like a spark; airy; gay.
-showy; well
-dresed; fine.

sparkle
-a little spark; a scintillation.
-brilliancy; luster; as, the sparkle of a diamond.
-to emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles; to shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle; as, the blazing wood sparkles; the stars sparkle.
-to manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.
-to emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce; as, sparkling wine.
-to emit in the form or likeness of sparks.
-to disperse.
-to scatter on or over.

sparkled
-of sparkle

sparkler
-one who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person.
-one who, or that which, sparkles.
-a tiger beetle.

sparklet
-a small spark.

sparkliness
-vivacity.

sparkling
-of sparkle
-emitting sparks; glittering; flashing; brilliant; lively; as, sparkling wine; sparkling eyes.

sparling
-the european smelt (osmerus eperlanus).
-a young salmon.
-a tern.

sparlyre
-the calf of the leg.

sparoid
-of or pertaining to the sparidae, a family of spinous
-finned fishes which includes the scup, sheepshead, and sea bream.
-one of the sparidae.

sparpiece
-the collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece.

sparpoil
-to scatter; to spread; to disperse.

sparred
-of spar

sparring
-of spar

sparrow
-one of many species of small singing birds of the family fringilligae, having conical bills, and feeding chiefly on seeds. many sparrows are called also finches, and buntings. the common sparrow, or house sparrow, of europe (passer domesticus) is noted for its familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its fecundity. see house sparrow, under house.
-any one of several small singing birds somewhat resembling the true sparrows in form or habits, as the european hedge sparrow. see under hedge.

sparrowgrass
-asparagus.

sparrowwort
-an evergreen shrub of the genus erica (e. passerina).

sparry
-resembling spar, or consisting of spar; abounding with spar; having a confused crystalline structure; spathose.

sparse
-thinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together; as, a sparse population.
-placed irregularly and distantly; scattered;
-- applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like.
-to scatter; to disperse.

sparsedly
-sparsely.

sparsely
-in a scattered or sparse manner.

sparseness
-the quality or state of being sparse; as, sparseness of population.

sparsim
-sparsely; scatteredly; here and there.

spartan
-of or pertaining to sparta, especially to ancient sparta; hence, hardy; undaunted; as, spartan souls; spartan bravey.
-a native or inhabitant of sparta; figuratively, a person of great courage and fortitude.

sparteine
-a narcotic alkaloid extracted from the tops of the common broom (cytisus scoparius, formerly spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of aniline
-like odor and very bitter taste.

sparth
-an anglo
-saxon battle
-ax, or halberd.

sparve
-the hedge sparrow.

spary
-sparing; parsimonious.

spasm
-an involuntary and unnatural contraction of one or more muscles or muscular fibers.
-a sudden, violent, and temporary effort or emotion; as, a spasm of repentance.

spasmatical
-spasmodic.

spasmodic
-of or pertaining to spasm; consisting in spasm; occuring in, or characterized by, spasms; as, a spasmodic asthma.
-soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as, spasmodic zeal or industry.
-a medicine for spasm.

spasmodical
-same as spasmodic, a.

spastic
-of or pertaining to spasm; spasmodic; especially, pertaining to tonic spasm; tetanic.

spastically
-spasmodically.

spasticity
-a state of spasm.
-the tendency to, or capability of suffering, spasm.

spat
-imp. of spit.
-a young oyster or other bivalve mollusk, both before and after it first becomes adherent, or such young, collectively.
-to emit spawn; to emit, as spawn.
-a light blow with something flat.
-hence, a petty combat, esp. a verbal one; a little quarrel, dispute, or dissension.
-to dispute.
-to slap, as with the open hand; to clap together; as the hands.
-of spit

spatangoid
-of or pertaining to the spatangoidea.
-one of the spatangoidea.

spatangoidea
-an order of irregular sea urchins, usually having a more or less heart
-shaped shell with four or five petal
-like ambulacra above. the mouth is edentulous and situated anteriorly, on the under side.

spatangus
-a genus of heart
-shaped sea urchins belonging to the spatangoidea.

spatchcock
-see spitchcock.

spate
-a river flood; an overflow or inundation.

spatha
-a spathe.

spathaceous
-having a spathe; resembling a spathe; spathal.

spathae
-of spatha

spathal
-furnished with a spathe; as, spathal flowers.

spathe
-a special involucre formed of one leaf and inclosing a spadix, as in aroid plants and palms. see the note under bract, and illust. of spadix.

spathed
-having a spathe or calyx like a sheath.

spathic
-like spar; foliated or lamellar; spathose.

spathiform
-resembling spar in form.

spathose
-see spathic.
-having a spathe; resembling a spathe; spatheceous; spathal.

spathous
-spathose.

spathulate
-see spatulate.

spatial
-of or pertaining to space.

spatially
-as regards space.

spatiate
-to rove; to ramble.

spatted
-of spat

spatter
-to sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud.
-to distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.
-fig.: to injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.
-to throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter.

spatter
-dock
-the common yellow water lily (nuphar advena).

spatterdashed
-wearing spatterdashes.

spatterdashes
-coverings for the legs, to protect them from water and mud; long gaiters.

spattered
-of spatter

spattering
-of spatter

spatting
-of spat

spattle
-spawl; spittle.
-a spatula.
-a tool or implement for mottling a molded article with coloring matter

spattling
-poppy
-a kind of catchfly (silene inflata) which is sometimes frothy from the action of captured insects.

spatula
-an implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc. cf. palette knife, under palette.

spatulate
-shaped like spatula, or like a battledoor, being roundish, with a long, narrow, linear base.

spauld
-the shoulder.

spavin
-a disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones; also, the swelling itself. the resulting lameness is due to the inflammation, and not the bony tumor as popularly supposed.

spavined
-affected with spavin.

spaw
-see spa.

spawl
-a splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. see spall.
-scattered or ejected spittle.
-to scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit, as saliva.

spawled
-of spawl

spawling
-of spawl
-that which is spawled, or spit out.

spawn
-to produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.
-to bring forth; to generate;
-- used in contempt.
-to deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.
-to issue, as offspring;
-- used contemptuously.
-the ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals.
-any product or offspring;
-- used contemptuously.
-the buds or branches produced from underground stems.
-the white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi.

spawned
-of spawn

spawner
-a mature female fish.
-whatever produces spawn of any kind.

spawning
-of spawn

spay
-to remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal).
-the male of the red deer in his third year; a spade.

spayad
-alt. of spayade

spayade
-a spay.

spayed
-of spay

spaying
-of spay

speak
-to utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.
-to express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.
-to utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally.
-to discourse; to make mention; to tell.
-to give sound; to sound.
-to convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self
-will.
-to utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings.
-to utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense.
-to declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way.
-to talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak latin.
-to address; to accost; to speak to.

speakable
-capable of being spoken; fit to be spoken.
-able to speak.

speaker
-one who speaks.
-one who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker.
-one who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates; as, the speaker of the house of commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the house to address the king; the speaker of a house of representatives.
-a book of selections for declamation.

speakership
-the office of speaker; as, the speakership of the house of representatives.

speaking
-of speak
-uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube.
-seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness.

spear
-a long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance.
-fig.: a spearman.
-a sharp
-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals.
-a shoot, as of grass; a spire.
-the feather of a horse. see feather, n., 4.
-the rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
-to pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish.
-to shoot into a long stem, as some plants. see spire.

speared
-of spear

spearer
-one who uses a spear; as, a spearer of fish.

spearfish
-a large and powerful fish (tetrapturus albidus) related to the swordfish, but having scales and ventral fins. it is found on the american coast and the mediterranean.
-the carp sucker.

spearhead
-the pointed head, or end, of a spear.

spearing
-of spear

spearman
-one who is armed with a spear.

spearmen
-of spearman

spearmint
-a species of mint (mentha viridis) growing in moist soil. it vields an aromatic oil. see mint, and mentha.

spearwood
-an australian tree (acacia doratoxylon), and its tough wood, used by the natives for spears.

spearwort
-a name given to several species of crowfoot (ranunculus) which have spear
-shaped leaves.

speary
-having the form of a spear.

spece
-species; kind.

specht
-a woodpecker.

special
-of or pertaining to a species; constituting a species or sort.
-particular; peculiar; different from others; extraordinary; uncommon.
-appropriate; designed for a particular purpose, occasion, or person; as, a special act of parliament or of congress; a special sermon.
-limited in range; confined to a definite field of action, investigation, or discussion; as, a special dictionary of commercial terms; a special branch of study.
-chief in excellence.
-a particular.
-one appointed for a special service or occasion.

specialism
-devotion to a particular and restricted part or branch of knowledge, art, or science; as, medical specialism.

specialist
-one who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.

specialities
-of speciality

speciality
-a particular or peculiar case; a particularity.
-see specialty, 3.
-the special or peculiar mark or characteristic of a person or thing; that for which a person is specially distinguished; an object of special attention; a special occupation or object of attention; a specialty.
-an attribute or quality peculiar to a species.

specialization
-the act of specializing, or the state of being spezialized.
-the setting apart of a particular organ for the performance of a particular function.

specialize
-to mention specially; to particularize.
-to apply to some specialty or limited object; to assign to a specific use; as, specialized knowledge.
-to supply with an organ or organs having a special function or functions.

specially
-in a special manner; particularly; especially.
-for a particular purpose; as, a meeting of the legislature is specially summoned.

specialties
-of specialty

specialty
-particularity.
-a particular or peculiar case.
-a contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified.
-that for which a person is distinguished, in which he is specially versed, or which he makes an object of special attention; a speciality.

specie
-abl. of l. species sort, kind. used in the phrase in specie, that is, in sort, in kind, in (its own) form.
-coin; hard money.

species
-visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.
-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.
-in science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.
-a sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth.
-coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
-a public spectacle or exhibition.
-a component part of compound medicine; a simple.
-an officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.
-the form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure.

specifiable
-admitting specification; capable of being specified.

specific
-of or pertaining to a species; characterizing or constituting a species; possessing the peculiar property or properties of a thing which constitute its species, and distinguish it from other things; as, the specific form of an animal or a plant; the specific qualities of a drug; the specific distinction between virtue and vice.
-specifying; definite, or making definite; limited; precise; discriminating; as, a specific statement.
-exerting a peculiar influence over any part of the body; preventing or curing disease by a peculiar adaption, and not on general principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.
-a specific remedy. see specific, a., 3.
-anything having peculiar adaption to the purpose to which it is applied.

specifical
-specific.

specifically
-in a specific manner.

specificalness
-the quality of being specific.

specificate
-to show, mark, or designate the species, or the distinguishing particulars of; to specify.

specification
-the act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits.
-the designation of particulars; particular mention; as, the specification of a charge against an officer.
-a written statement containing a minute description or enumeration of particulars, as of charges against a public officer, the terms of a contract, the description of an invention, as in a patent; also, a single article, item, or particular, an allegation of a specific act, as in a charge of official misconduct.

specified
-of specify

specify
-to mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased.

specifying
-of specify

specimen
-a part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number of things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of what is not exhibited; a sample; as, a specimen of a man's handwriting; a specimen of painting; aspecimen of one's art.

speciocities
-of speciosity

speciosity
-the quality or state of being specious; speciousness.
-that which is specious.

specious
-presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or look; showy.
-apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct, but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument.

speck
-the blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.
-a small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit.
-a very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.
-a small etheostomoid fish (ulocentra stigmaea) common in the eastern united states.
-to cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture.

specked
-of speck

specking
-of speck

speckle
-a little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself.
-to mark with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface; to variegate with spots of a different color from the ground or surface.

speckled
-of speckle
-marked or variegated with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface.

speckled
-belly
-the gadwall.

speckled
-bill
-the american white
-fronted goose (anser albifrons).

speckledness
-the quality of being speckled.

speckling
-of speckle

specksioneer
-the chief harpooner, who also directs in cutting up the speck, or blubber;
-- so called among whalers.

speckt
-a woodpecker. see speight.

specollum
-see stylet, 2.

spectacle
-something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant; a gazingstock.
-a spy
-glass; a looking
-glass.
-an optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light.
-fig.: an aid to the intellectual sight.

spectacled
-furnished with spectacles; wearing spectacles.
-having the eyes surrounded by color markings, or patches of naked skin, resembling spectacles.

spectacular
-of or pertaining to a shows; of the nature of a show.
-adapted to excite wonder and admiration by a display of pomp or of scenic effects; as, a spectacular celebration of some event; a spectacular play.
-pertaining to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.

spectant
-looking forward.

spectation
-regard; aspect; appearance.

spectator
-one who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show.

spectatorial
-of or pertaining to a spectator.

spectatorship
-the office or quality of a spectator.
-the act of beholding.

spectatress
-alt. of spectatrix

spectatrix
-a female beholder or looker
-on.

specter
-alt. of spectre

spectioneer
-same as specsioneer.

spectra
-of spectrum

spectral
-of or pertaining to a specter; ghosty.
-of or pertaining to the spectrum; made by the spectrum; as, spectral colors; spectral analysis.

spectrally
-in the form or manner of a specter.

spectre
-something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom.
-the tarsius.
-a stick insect.
-see specter.

spectrological
-of or pertaining to spectrology; as, spectrological studies or experiments.

spectrology
-the science of spectrum analysis in any or all of its relations and applications.

spectrometer
-a spectroscope fitted for measurements of the luminious spectra observed with it.

spectrophotometer
-an instrument for measuring or comparing the intensites of the colors of the spectrum.

spectroscope
-an optical instrument for forming and examining spectra (as that of solar light, or those produced by flames in which different substances are volatilized), so as to determine, from the position of the spectral lines, the composition of the substance.

spectroscopic
-alt. of spectroscopical

spectroscopical
-of or pertaining to a spectroscope, or spectroscopy.

spectroscopist
-one who investigates by means of a spectroscope; one skilled in the use of the spectroscope.

spectroscopy
-the use of the spectroscope; investigations made with the spectroscope.

spectrum
-an apparition; a specter.
-the several colored and other rays of which light is composed, separated by the refraction of a prism or other means, and observed or studied either as spread out on a screen, by direct vision, by photography, or otherwise. see illust. of light, and spectroscope.
-a luminous appearance, or an image seen after the eye has been exposed to an intense light or a strongly illuminated object. when the object is colored, the image appears of the complementary color, as a green image seen after viewing a red wafer lying on white paper. called also ocular spectrum.

specula
-of speculum

specular
-having the qualities of a speculum, or mirror; having a smooth, reflecting surface; as, a specular metal; a specular surface.
-of or pertaining to a speculum; conducted with the aid of a speculum; as, a specular examination.
-assisting sight, as a lens or the like.
-affording view.

speculate
-to consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events.
-to view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori.
-to purchase with the expectation of a contingent advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit;
-- often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock.
-to consider attentively; as, to speculate the nature of a thing.

speculated
-of speculate

speculating
-of speculate

speculation
-the act of speculating.
-examination by the eye; view.
-mental view of anything in its various aspects and relations; contemplation; intellectual examination.
-the act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
-the act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.
-any business venture in involving unusual risks, with a chance for large profits.
-a conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; view; notion; conjecture.
-power of sight.
-a game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.

speculatist
-one who speculates, or forms theories; a speculator; a theorist.

speculative
-given to speculation; contemplative.
-involving, or formed by, speculation; ideal; theoretical; not established by demonstration.
-of or pertaining to vision; also, prying; inquisitive; curious.
-of or pertaining to speculation in land, goods, shares, etc.; as, a speculative dealer or enterprise.

speculator
-one who speculates. specifically: (a) an observer; a contemplator; hence, a spy; a watcher.
-one who forms theories; a theorist.
-one who engages in speculation; one who buys and sells goods, land, etc., with the expectation of deriving profit from fluctuations in price.

speculatorial
-speculatory; speculative.

speculatory
-intended or adapted for viewing or espying; having oversight.
-exercising speculation; speculative.

speculist
-one who observes or considers; an observer.

speculum
-of speculum
-a mirror, or looking
-glass; especially, a metal mirror, as in greek and roman archaeology.
-a reflector of polished metal, especially one used in reflecting telescopes. see speculum metal, below.
-an instrument for dilating certain passages of the body, and throwing light within them, thus facilitating examination or surgical operations.
-a bright and lustrous patch of color found on the wings of ducks and some other birds. it is usually situated on the distal portions of the secondary quills, and is much more brilliant in the adult male than in the female.

sped
-imp. & p. p. of speed.
-of speed

speece
-species; sort.

speech
-the faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.
-he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation.
-a particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect.
-talk; mention; common saying.
-formal discourse in public; oration; harangue.
-ny declaration of thoughts.
-to make a speech; to harangue.

speechful
-full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.

speechification
-the act of speechifying.

speechified
-of speechify

speechifier
-one who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer.

speechify
-to make a speech; to harangue.

speechifying
-of speechify
-the act of making a speech or speeches.

speeching
-the act of making a speech.

speechless
-destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech.
-not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent.

speechmaker
-one who makes speeches; one accustomed to speak in a public assembly.

speed
-prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.
-the act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed a horse or a vessel.
-one who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success.
-to go; to fare.
-to experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare.
-to fare well; to have success; to prosper.
-to make haste; to move with celerity.
-to be expedient.
-to cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor.
-to cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
-to hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
-to hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to undo.
-to wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.

speeded
-of speed

speeder
-one who, or that which, speeds.
-a machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings.

speedful
-full of speed (in any sense).

speedfully
-in a speedful manner.

speedily
-in a speedy manner.

speediness
-the quality or state of being speedy.

speeding
-of speed

speedless
-being without speed.

speedwell
-any plant of the genus veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off.

speedy
-not dilatory or slow; quick; swift; nimble; hasty; rapid in motion or performance; as, a speedy flight; on speedy foot.

speer
-a sphere.
-to ask.

speet
-to stab.

speight
-a woodpecker;
-- called also specht, spekt, spight.

speir
-to ask. see spere.

speiskobalt
-smaltite.

speiss
-a regulus consisting essentially of nickel, obtained as a residue in fusing cobalt and nickel ores with silica and sodium carbonate to make smalt.

spekboom
-the purslane tree of south africa,
-- said to be the favorite food of elephants.

speke
-to speak.

spekehouse
-the parlor or reception room of a convent.

speking
-the act of uttering words.
-public declamation; oratory.

spelding
-a haddock or other small fish split open and dried in the sun;
-- called also speldron.

spelicans
-see spilikin.

spelk
-a small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter.

spell
-a spelk, or splinter.
-to supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.
-the relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spell at the pumps; a spell at the masthead.
-the time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days, or weeks.
-one of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells.
-a gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell.
-a story; a tale.
-a stanza, verse, or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm.
-to tell; to relate; to teach.
-to put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
-to constitute; to measure.
-to tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, esp. the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography.
-to discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty;
-- usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the bible.
-to form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing.
-to study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study.

spellable
-capable of being spelt.

spellbound
-bound by, or as by, a spell.

spelled
-of spell
-of spell

speller
-one who spells.
-a spelling book.

spellful
-abounding in spells, or charms.

spelling
-of spell
-of spell
-the act of one who spells; formation of words by letters; orthography.
-of or pertaining to spelling.

spellken
-a theater.

spellwork
-power or effect of magic; that which is wrought by magic; enchantment.

spelt
-of spell
-imp. & p. p. of spell. spelled.
-a species of grain (triticum spelta) much cultivated for food in germany and switzerland;
-- called also german wheat.
-spelter.
-to split; to break; to spalt.

spelter
-zinc;
-- especially so called in commerce and arts.

spelunc
-a cavern; a cave.

spence
-a place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry.
-the inner apartment of a country house; also, the place where the family sit and eat.

spencer
-one who has the care of the spence, or buttery.
-a short jacket worn by men and by women.
-a fore
-and
-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast;
-- named after its inventor, knight spencer, of england [1802].

spend
-to weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
-to bestow; to employ;
-- often with on or upon.
-to consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
-to pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.
-to exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.
-to expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.
-to waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.
-to be diffused; to spread.
-to break ground; to continue working.

spender
-one who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.

spending
-of spend
-the act of expending; expenditure.

spendthrift
-one who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. also used figuratively.
-prodigal; extravagant; wasteful.

spendthrifty
-spendthrift; prodigal.

spenserian
-of or pertaining to the english poet spenser;
-- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "the faerie queene."

spent
-of spend
-exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.
-exhausted of spawn or sperm;
-- said especially of fishes.

sper
-alt. of sperre

sperable
-within the range of hpe; proper to be hoped for.
-see sperable.

sperage
-asperagus.

sperate
-hoped for, or to be hoped for.

spere
-to search; to pry; to ask; to inquire.
-a sphere.

sperge
-a charge of wash for the still.

sperling
-a smelt; a sparling.
-a young herring.

sperm
-the male fecundating fluid; semen. see semen.
-spermaceti.

sperm whale
-a very large toothed whale (physeter macrocephalus), having a head of enormous size. the upper jaw is destitute of teeth. in the upper part of the head, above the skull, there is a large cavity, or case, filled with oil and spermaceti. this whale sometimes grows to the length of more than eighty feet. it is found in the warmer parts of all the oceans. called also cachalot, and spermaceti whale.

spermaceti
-a white waxy substance obtained from cavities in the head of the sperm whale, and used making candles, oilments, cosmetics, etc. it consists essentially of ethereal salts of palmitic acid with ethal and other hydrocarbon bases. the substance of spermaceti after the removal of certain impurities is sometimes called cetin.

spermalist
-see spermist.

spermaphore
-that part of the ovary from which the ovules arise; the placenta.

spermary
-an organ in which spermatozoa are developed; a sperm gland; a testicle.

spermatheca
-a small sac connected with the female reproductive organs of insects and many other invertebrates, serving to receive and retain the spermatozoa.

spermathecae
-of spermatheca

spermatia
-of spermatium

spermatic
-of or pertaining to semen; as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc.

spermatical
-spermatic.

spermatin
-a substance allied to alkali albumin and to mucin, present in semen, to which it is said to impart the mucilaginous character.

spermatism
-the emission of sperm, or semen.

spermatium
-one of the motionless spermatozoids in the conceptacles of certain fungi.

spermatize
-to yield seed; to emit seed, or sperm.

spermato
-
-alt. of spermo
-

spermatoa
-of spermatoon

spermatoblast
-same as spermoblast.

spermatocyte
-same as spermoblast.

spermatogemma
-same as spermosphere.

spermatogenesis
-the development of the spermatozoids.

spermatogenetic
-relating to, or connected with, spermatogenesis; as, spermatogenetic function.

spermatogenous
-sperm
-producing.

spermatogonium
-a primitive seminal cell, occuring in masses in the seminal tubules. it divides into a mass (spermosphere) of small cells (spermoblast), which in turn give rise to spermatozoids.

spermatoid
-spermlike; resembling sperm, or semen.

spermatoon
-a spermoblast.

spermatophore
-same as spermospore.
-a capsule or pocket inclosing a number of spermatozoa. they are present in many annelids, brachiopods, mollusks, and crustaceans. in cephalopods the structure of the capsule is very complex.

spermatophorous
-producing seed, or sperm; seminiferous; as, the so
-called spermatophorous cells.

spermatorrhea
-alt. of spermatorrhoea

spermatorrhoea
-abnormally frequent involuntary emission of the semen without copulation.

spermatospore
-same as spermospore.

spermatozoa
-of spermatozoon

spermatozoid
-the male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalcule
-like particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. in animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. called also spermatozoon. in plants the more usual term is antherozoid.

spermatozooid
-a spermatozoid.

spermatozoon
-same as spermatozoid.

spermic
-of or pertaining to sperm, or semen.

spermidia
-of spermidium

spermidium
-an achenium.

spermist
-a believer in the doctrine, formerly current, of encasement in the male (see encasement), in which the seminal thread, or spermatozoid, was considered as the real animal germ, the head being the true animal head and the tail the body.

spermo
-
-combining forms from gr. spe`rma,
-atos, seed, sperm, semen (of plants or animals); as, spermatoblast, spermoblast.

spermoblast
-one of the cells formed by the division of the spermospore, each of which is destined to become a spermatozoid; a spermatocyte; a spermatoblast.

spermococcus
-the nucleus of the sperm cell.

spermoderm
-the covering of a seed;
-- sometimes limited to the outer coat or testa.

spermogonium
-a conceptacle of certain lichens, which contains spermatia.

spermologist
-one who treats of, or collects, seeds.

spermophile
-any ground squirrel of the genus spermophilus; a gopher. see illust. under gopher.

spermophore
-a spermatophore.

spermophyta
-plants which produce seed; phaenogamia. these plants constitute the highest grand division of the vegetable kingdom.

spermophyte
-any plant which produces true seeds;
-- a term recently proposed to replace ph/nogam.

spermophytic
-capable of producing seeds; ph/nogamic.

spermoplasma
-the protoplasm of the sperm cell.

spermosphere
-a mass or ball of cells formed by the repeated division of a male germinal cell (spermospore), each constituent cell (spermoblast) of which is converted into a spermatozoid; a spermatogemma.

spermospore
-the male germinal or seminal cell, from the breaking up of which the spermoblasts are formed and ultimately the spermatozoids; a spermatospore.

spermule
-a sperm cell.

sperre
-to shut in; to support; to inclose; to fasten.

sperrylite
-an arsenide of platinum occuring in grains and minute isometric crystals of tin
-white color. it is found near sudbury, ontario canada, and is the only known compound of platinum occuring in nature.

sperse
-to disperse.

spessartite
-a manganesian variety of garnet.

spet
-to spit; to throw out.
-spittle.

spetches
-parings and refuse of hides, skins, etc., from which glue is made.

spew
-to eject from the stomach; to vomit.
-to cast forth with abhorrence or disgust; to eject.
-to vomit.
-to eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost.
-that which is vomited; vomit.

spewed
-of spew

spewer
-one who spews.

spewiness
-the state of being spewy.

spewing
-of spew

spewy
-wet; soggy; inclined to spew.

sphacel
-gangrene.

sphacelate
-to affect with gangrene.
-alt. of sphacelated

sphacelated
-of spacelate
-affected with gangrene; mortified.

sphacelating
-of spacelate

sphacelation
-the process of becoming or making gangrenous; mortification.

sphacelus
-gangrenous part; gangrene; slough.

sphaerenchyma
-vegetable tissue composed of thin
-walled rounded cells,
-- a modification of parenchyma.

sphaeridia
-of sphaeridium

sphaeridium
-a peculiar sense organ found upon the exterior of most kinds of sea urchins, and consisting of an oval or sherical head surmounting a short pedicel. it is generally supposed to be an olfactory organ.

sphaerospore
-one of the nonsexual spores found in red algae; a tetraspore.

sphaerulite
-same as spherulite.

sphagnicolous
-growing in moss of the genus sphagnum.

sphagnous
-pertaining to moss of the genus sphagnum, or bog moss; abounding in peat or bog moss.

sphagnum
-a genus of mosses having white leaves slightly tinged with red or green and found growing in marshy places; bog moss; peat moss.

sphalerite
-zinc sulphide;
-- called also blende, black
-jack, false galena, etc. see blende (a).

sphene
-a mineral found usually in thin, wedge
-shaped crystals of a yellow or green to black color. it is a silicate of titanium and calcium; titanite.

sphenethmoid
-of or pertaining to both the sphenoidal and the ethmoidal regions of the skull, or the sphenethmoid bone; sphenethmoidal.
-the sphenethmoid bone.

sphenethmoidal
-relating to the sphenoethmoid bone; sphenoethmoid.

spheniscan
-any species of penguin.

spheno
-
-a combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the sphenoid bone; as in sphenomaxillary, sphenopalatine.

sphenodon
-same as hatteria.

sphenoethmoidal
-sphenethmoid.

sphenogram
-a cuneiform, or arrow
-headed, character.

sphenographer
-one skilled in sphenography; a sphenographist.

sphenographic
-of or pertaining to sphenography.

sphenographist
-a sphenographer.

sphenography
-the art of writing in cuneiform characters, or of deciphering inscriptions made in such characters.

sphenoid
-wedge
-shaped; as, a sphenoid crystal.
-of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone.
-a wedge
-shaped crystal bounded by four equal isosceles triangles. it is the hemihedral form of a square pyramid.
-the sphenoid bone.

sphenoidal
-sphenoid.
-pertaining to, or resembling, a sphenoid.

sphenotic
-of, pertaining to, or designating, the sphenotic bone.
-the sphenotic bone.

spheral
-of or pertaining to a sphere or the spheres.
-rounded like a sphere; sphere
-shaped; hence, symmetrical; complete; perfect.

sphere
-a body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center.
-hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth.
-the apparent surface of the heavens, which is assumed to be spherical and everywhere equally distant, in which the heavenly bodies appear to have their places, and on which the various astronomical circles, as of right ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it.
-in ancient astronomy, one of the concentric and eccentric revolving spherical transparent shells in which the stars, sun, planets, and moon were supposed to be set, and by which they were carried, in such a manner as to produce their apparent motions.
-the extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied.
-circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence; compass; province; employment; place of existence.
-rank; order of society; social positions.
-an orbit, as of a star; a socket.
-to place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to insphere.
-to form into roundness; to make spherical, or spheral; to perfect.

sphered
-of sphere

spheric
-having the form of a sphere; like a sphere; globular; orbicular; as, a spherical body.
-of or pertaining to a sphere.
-of or pertaining to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set.

spherical
-alt. of spheric

sphericity
-the quality or state of being spherial; roundness; as, the sphericity of the planets, or of a drop of water.

sphericle
-a small sphere.

spherics
-the doctrine of the sphere; the science of the properties and relations of the circles, figures, and other magnitudes of a sphere, produced by planes intersecting it; spherical geometry and trigonometry.

sphering
-of sphere

spherobacteria
-see the note under microbacteria.

spheroconic
-a nonplane curve formed by the intersection of the surface of an oblique cone with the surface of a sphere whose center is at the vertex of the cone.

spherograph
-an instrument for facilitating the practical use of spherics in navigation and astronomy, being constructed of two cardboards containing various circles, and turning upon each other in such a manner that any possible spherical triangle may be readily found, and the measures of the parts read off by inspection.

spheroid
-a body or figure approaching to a sphere, but not perfectly spherical; esp., a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes.

spheroidal
-having the form of a spheroid.

spheroidic
-alt. of spheroidical

spheroidical
-see spheroidal.

spheroidicity
-alt. of spheroidity

spheroidity
-the quality or state of being spheroidal.

spheromere
-any one of the several symmetrical segments arranged around the central axis and composing the body of a radiate anmal.

spherometer
-an instrument for measuring the curvature of spherical surface, as of lenses for telescope, etc.

spherosiderite
-siderite occuring in spheroidal masses.

spherosome
-the body wall of any radiate animal.

spherulate
-covered or set with spherules; having one or more rows of spherules, or minute tubercles.

spherule
-a little sphere or spherical body; as, quicksilver, when poured upon a plane, divides itself into a great number of minute spherules.

spherulite
-a minute spherical crystalline body having a radiated structure, observed in some vitreous volcanic rocks, as obsidian and pearlstone.

spherulitic
-of or pertaining to a spherulite; characterized by the presence of spherulites.

sphery
-round; spherical; starlike.
-of or pertaining to the spheres.

sphex
-any one of numerous species of sand wasps of the genus sphex and allied genera. these wasps have the abdomen attached to the thorax by a slender pedicel. see illust. of sand wasp, under sand.

sphigmometer
-see sphygmometer.

sphincter
-a muscle which surrounds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder.
-of, pertaining to, or designating, a sphincter; as, a sphincter muscle.

sphingid
-a sphinx.
-of or pertaining to a sphinx, or the family sphingidae.

sphinx
-in egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion.
-on greek art and mythology, a she
-monster, usually represented as having the winged body of a lion, and the face and breast of a young woman.
-hence: a person of enigmatical character and purposes, especially in politics and diplomacy.
-any one of numerous species of large moths of the family sphingidae;
-- called also hawk moth.
-the guinea, or sphinx, baboon (cynocephalus sphinx).

sphragide
-lemnian earth.

sphragistics
-the science of seals, their history, age, distinctions, etc., esp. as verifying the age and genuiness of documents.

sphrigosis
-a condition of vegetation in which there is too abundant growth of the stem and leaves, accompanied by deficiency of flowers and fruit.

sphygmic
-of or pertaining to the pulse.

sphygmogram
-a tracing, called a pulse tracing, consisting of a series of curves corresponding with the beats of the heart, obtained by the application of the sphygmograph.

sphygmograph
-an instrument which, when applied over an artery, indicates graphically the movements or character of the pulse. see sphygmogram.

sphygmographic
-relating to, or produced by, a sphygmograph; as, a sphygmographic tracing.

sphygmometer
-an instrument for measuring the strength of the pulse beat; a sphygmograph.

sphygmophone
-an electrical instrument for determining by the ear the rhythm of the pulse of a person at a distance.

sphygmoscope
-same as sphygmograph.

sphyraenoid
-of or pertaining to the sphyraenidae, a family of marine fishes including the barracudas.

spial
-a spy; a scout.

spica
-a kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk;
-- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley.
-a star of the first magnitude situated in the constellation virgo.

spicae
-of spica

spicate
-alt. of spicated

spicated
-having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes.

spiccato
-detached; separated;
-- a term indicating that every note is to be performed in a distinct and pointed manner.

spice
-species; kind.
-a vegetable production of many kinds, fragrant or aromatic and pungent to the taste, as pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, allspice, ginger, cloves, etc., which are used in cookery and to flavor sauces, pickles, etc.
-figuratively, that which enriches or alters the quality of a thing in a small degree, as spice alters the taste of food; that which gives zest or pungency; a slight flavoring; a relish; hence, a small quantity or admixture; a sprinkling; as, a spice of mischief.
-to season with spice, or as with spice; to mix aromatic or pungent substances with; to flavor; to season; as, to spice wine; to spice one's words with wit.
-to fill or impregnate with the odor of spices.
-to render nice or dainty; hence, to render scrupulous.

spicebush
-spicewood.

spiced
-of spice

spicenut
-a small crisp cake, highly spiced.

spicer
-one who seasons with spice.
-one who deals in spice.

spicery
-spices, in general.
-a repository of spices.

spicewood
-an american shrub (lindera benzoin), the bark of which has a spicy taste and odor;
-- called also benjamin, wild allspice, and fever bush.

spiciferous
-bearing ears, or spikes; spicate.

spiciform
-spike
-shaped.

spicily
-in a spicy manner.

spiciness
-the quality or state of being spicy.

spicing
-of spice

spick
-a spike or nail.

spicknel
-an umbelliferous herb (meum athamanticum) having finely divided leaves, common in europe;
-- called also baldmoney, mew, and bearwort.

spicose
-having spikes, or ears, like corn spikes.

spicosity
-the state of having, or being full of, ears like corn.

spicous
-see spicose.

spicula
-a little spike; a spikelet.
-a pointed fleshy appendage.
-of spiculum

spiculae
-of spicula

spicular
-resembling a dart; having sharp points.

spiculate
-covered with, or having, spicules.
-covered with minute spiculae, or pointed fleshy appendages; divided into small spikelets.
-to sharpen to a point.

spicule
-a minute, slender granule, or point.
-same as spicula.
-any small calcareous or siliceous body found in the tissues of various invertebrate animals, especially in sponges and in most alcyonaria.

spiculiform
-having the shape of a spicule.

spiculigenous
-producing or containing spicules.

spiculispongiae
-a division of sponges including those which have independent siliceous spicules.

spiculum
-same as spicule.

spicy
-flavored with, or containing, spice or spices; fragrant; aromatic; as, spicy breezes.
-producing, or abounding with, spices.
-fig.: piquant; racy; as, a spicy debate.

spider
-any one of numerous species of arachnids comprising the order araneina. spiders have the mandibles converted into poison fangs, or falcers. the abdomen is large and not segmented, with two or three pairs of spinnerets near the end, by means of which they spin threads of silk to form cocoons, or nests, to protect their eggs and young. many species spin also complex webs to entrap the insects upon which they prey. the eyes are usually eight in number (rarely six), and are situated on the back of the cephalothorax. see illust. under araneina.
-any one of various other arachnids resembling the true spiders, especially certain mites, as the red spider (see under red).
-an iron pan with a long handle, used as a kitchen utensil in frying food. originally, it had long legs, and was used over coals on the hearth.
-a trevet to support pans or pots over a fire.
-a skeleton, or frame, having radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces; as, a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; a frame for strengthening a core or mold for a casting, etc.

spider web
-alt. of spider's web

spider's web
-the silken web which is formed by most kinds of spiders, particularly the web spun to entrap their prey. see geometric spider, triangle spider, under geometric, and triangle.

spidered
-infested by spiders; cobwebbed.

spiderlike
-like a spider.

spiderwort
-an american endogenous plant (tradescantia virginica), with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. the name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus.

spied
-imp. & p. p. of spy.
-of spy

spiegel iron
-a fusible white cast iron containing a large amount of carbon (from three and a half to six per cent) and some manganese. when the manganese reaches twenty
-five per cent and upwards it has a granular structure, and constitutes the alloy ferro manganese, largely used in the manufacture of bessemer steel. called also specular pig iron, spiegel, and spiegeleisen.

spiegeleisen
-see spiegel iron.

spies
-of spy

spight
-spite.
-a woodpecker. see speight.

spignel
-same as spickenel.

spignet
-an aromatic plant of america. see spikenard.

spigot
-a pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock.

spigurnel
-formerly the title of the sealer of writs in chancery.

spike
-a sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
-anything resembling such a nail in shape.
-an ear of corn or grain.
-a kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
-to fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.
-to set or furnish with spikes.
-to fix on a spike.
-to stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it.
-spike lavender. see lavender.

spikebill
-the hooded merganser.
-the marbled godwit (limosa fedoa).

spiked
-of spike
-furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes.

spikefish
-see sailfish (a)

spikelet
-a small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. see illust. of quaking grass.

spikenard
-an aromatic plant. in the united states it is the aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. the spikenard of the ancients is the nardostachys jatamansi, a native of the himalayan region. from its blackish roots a perfume for the hair is still prepared in india.
-a fragrant essential oil, as that from the nardostachys jatamansi.

spiketail
-the pintail duck.

spiking
-of spike

spiky
-like a spike; spikelike.
-having a sharp point, or sharp points; furnished or armed with spikes.

spile
-a small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask.
-a small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple.
-a large stake driven into the ground as a support for some superstructure; a pile.
-to supply with a spile or a spigot; to make a small vent in, as a cask.

spilikin
-one of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. in the plural (spilikinsspilikins (pl. ) of spilikin ), a game played with such pieces; pushpin.

spill
-a bit of wood split off; a splinter.
-a slender piece of anything.
-a peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
-a metallic rod or pin.
-a small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
-one of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
-a little sum of money.
-to cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
-to destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
-to mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
-to suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered;
-- applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour.
-to cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood.
-to relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
-to be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
-to be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.

spilled
-of spill

spiller
-one who, or that which, spills.
-a kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter.

spillet fishing
-alt. of spilliard fishing

spilliard fishing
-a system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line;
-- in north america, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long
-line fishing.

spillikin
-see spilikin.

spilling
-of spill
-of spill

spillway
-a sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.

spilt
-of spill
-of spill
-imp. & p. p. of spill. spilled.

spilter
-any one of the small branches on a stag's head.

spilth
-anything spilt, or freely poured out; slop; effusion.

spin
-to draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material.
-to draw out tediously; to form by a slow process, or by degrees; to extend to a great length;
-- with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject.
-to protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness.
-to cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to spin a top.
-to form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air;
-- said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
-to shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
-to practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness.
-to move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis.
-to stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein.
-to move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.
-the act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle.
-velocity of rotation about some specified axis.

spina bifida
-a congenital malformation in which the spinal column is cleft at its lower portion, and the membranes of the spinal cord project as an elastic swelling from the gap thus formed.

spinaceous
-of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant spinach, or the family of plants to which it belongs.

spinach
-alt. of spinage

spinage
-a common pot herb (spinacia oleracea) belonging to the goosefoot family.

spinal
-of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the backbone, or vertebral column; rachidian; vertebral.
-of or pertaining to a spine or spines.

spinate
-bearing a spine; spiniform.

spindle
-the long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.
-a slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
-the shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc.
-the vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
-a shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
-the fusee of a watch.
-a long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
-a yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
-a solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
-any marine univalve shell of the genus rostellaria;
-- called also spindle stromb.
-any marine gastropod of the genus fusus.
-to shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.

spindle
-legged
-having long, slender legs.

spindle
-shanked
-having long, slender legs.

spindle
-shaped
-having the shape of a spindle.
-thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform;
-- applied chiefly to roots.

spindled
-of spindle

spindlelegs
-a spindleshanks.

spindleshanks
-a person with slender shanks, or legs;
-- used humorously or in contempt.

spindletail
-the pintail duck.

spindleworm
-the larva of a noctuid mmoth (achatodes zeae) which feeds inside the stalks of corn (maize), sometimes causing much damage. it is smooth, with a black head and tail and a row of black dots across each segment.

spindling
-of spindle
-long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, a spindling tree; a spindling boy.

spine
-a sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.
-a rigid and sharp projection upon any part of an animal.
-one of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish.
-the backbone, or spinal column, of an animal;
-- so called from the projecting processes upon the vertebrae.
-anything resembling the spine or backbone; a ridge.

spine
-finned
-having fine supported by spinous fin rays;
-- said of certain fishes.

spine
-tailed
-having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips.

spineback
-a fish having spines in, or in front of, the dorsal fins.

spinebill
-any species of australian birds of the genus acanthorhynchus. they are related to the honey eaters.

spined
-furnished with spines; spiny.

spinel
-alt. of spinelle
-bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle.

spineless
-having no spine.

spinelle
-a mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety being the gem spinel ruby. it consist essentially of alumina and magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also chromium.

spinescent
-becoming hard and thorny; tapering gradually to a rigid, leafless point; armed with spines.

spinet
-a keyed instrument of music resembling a harpsichord, but smaller, with one string of brass or steel wire to each note, sounded by means of leather or quill plectrums or jacks. it was formerly much used.
-a spinny.

spinetail
-any one or several species of swifts of the genus acanthylis, or chaetura, and allied genera, in which the shafts of the tail feathers terminate in rigid spines.
-any one of several species of south american and central american clamatorial birds belonging to synallaxis and allied genera of the family dendrocolaptidae. they are allied to the ovenbirds.
-the ruddy duck.

spineted
-slit; cleft.

spiniferous
-producing spines; bearing thorns or spines; thorny; spiny.

spiniform
-shaped like a spine.

spinigerous
-bearing a spine or spines; thorn
-bearing.

spinii
-spirulate
-having spines arranged spirally. see spicule.

spininess
-quality of being spiny.

spink
-the chaffinch.

spinnaker
-a large triangular sail set upon a boom,
-- used when running before the wind.

spinner
-one who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.
-a spider.
-a goatsucker;
-- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.
-a spinneret.

spinneret
-one of the special jointed organs situated on the under side, and near the end, of the abdomen of spiders, by means of which they spin their webs. most spiders have three pairs of spinnerets, but some have only two pairs. the ordinary silk line of the spider is composed of numerous smaller lines jointed after issuing from the spinnerets.

spinnerule
-one of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders.

spinney
-same as spinny.

spinneys
-of spinney

spinnies
-of spinny

spinning
-of spin
-a. & n. from spin.

spinny
-a small thicket or grove with undergrowth; a clump of trees.
-thin and long; slim; slender.

spinose
-full of spines; armed with thorns; thorny.

spinosity
-the quality or state of being spiny or thorny; spininess.

spinous
-spinose; thorny.
-having the form of a spine or thorn; spinelike.

spinozism
-the form of pantheism taught by benedict spinoza, that there is but one substance, or infinite essence, in the universe, of which the so
-called material and spiritual beings and phenomena are only modes, and that one this one substance is god.

spinozist
-a believer in spinozism.

spinster
-a woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin.
-a man who spins.
-an unmarried or single woman;
-- used in legal proceedings as a title, or addition to the surname.
-a woman of evil life and character;
-- so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction.

spinstress
-a woman who spins.

spinstry
-the business of one who spins; spinning.

spinule
-a minute spine.

spinulescent
-having small spines; somewhat thorny.

spinulose
-alt. of spinulous

spinulous
-covered with small spines.

spiny
-full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree.
-like a spine in shape; slender.
-fig.: abounding with difficulties or annoyances.
-see spinny.

spiodea
-an extensive division of marine annelida, including those that are without oral tentacles or cirri, and have the gills, when present, mostly arranged along the sides of the body. they generally live in burrows or tubes.

spirable
-capable of being breathed; respirable.

spiracle
-the nostril, or one of the nostrils, of whales, porpoises, and allied animals.
-one of the external openings communicating with the air tubes or tracheae of insects, myriapods, and arachnids. they are variable in number, and are usually situated on the sides of the thorax and abdomen, a pair to a segment. these openings are usually elliptical, and capable of being closed. see illust. under coleoptera.
-a tubular orifice communicating with the gill cavity of certain ganoid and all elasmobranch fishes. it is the modified first gill cleft.
-any small aperture or vent for air or other fluid.

spiracular
-of or pertaining to a spiracle.

spiraea
-a genus of shrubs or perennial herbs including the meadowsweet and the hardhack.

spiraeic
-of, pertaining to, or derived from, the meadowsweet (spiraea); formerly, designating an acid which is now called salicylic acid.

spiral
-winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.
-winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical.
-of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral.
-a plane curve, not reentrant, described by a point, called the generatrix, moving along a straight line according to a mathematical law, while the line is revolving about a fixed point called the pole. cf. helix.
-anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell.

spirality
-the quality or states of being spiral.

spirally
-in a spiral form, manner, or direction.

spiralozooid
-one of the special defensive zooids of certain hydroids. they have the form of long, slender tentacles, and bear lasso cells.

spirant
-a term used differently by different authorities;
-- by some as equivalent to fricative,
-- that is, as including all the continuous consonants, except the nasals m, n, ng; with the further exception, by others, of the liquids r, l, and the semivowels w, y; by others limited to f, v, th surd and sonant, and the sound of german ch,
-- thus excluding the sibilants, as well as the nasals, liquids, and semivowels. see guide to pronunciation, // 197
-208.

spiranthy
-the occasional twisted growth of the parts of a flower.

spiration
-the act of breathing.

spire
-to breathe.
-a slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat.
-a tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. specifically (arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width; also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of strasburg cathedral; the tapering part of a steeple, or the steeple itself.
-a tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.
-the top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
-to shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire.
-a spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.
-the part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. see spiral, n.

spired
-of spire
-having a spire; being in the form of a spire; as, a spired steeple.

spiricle
-one of certain minute coiled threads in the coating of some seeds. when moistened these threads protrude in great numbers.

spirifer
-any one of numerous species of fossil brachipods of the genus spirifer, or delthyris, and allied genera, in which the long calcareous supports of the arms form a large spiral, or helix, on each side.

spirillum
-a genus of common motile microorganisms (spirobacteria) having the form of spiral
-shaped filaments. one species is said to be the cause of relapsing fever.

spiring
-of spire
-shooting up in a spire or spires.

spirit
-air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
-a rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a mark to denote aspiration; a breathing.
-life, or living substance, considered independently of corporeal existence; an intelligence conceived of apart from any physical organization or embodiment; vital essence, force, or energy, as distinct from matter.
-the intelligent, immaterial and immortal part of man; the soul, in distinction from the body in which it resides; the agent or subject of vital and spiritual functions, whether spiritual or material.
-specifically, a disembodied soul; the human soul after it has left the body.
-any supernatural being, good or bad; an apparition; a specter; a ghost; also, sometimes, a sprite,; a fairy; an elf.
-energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc.
-one who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper; as, a ruling spirit; a schismatic spirit.
-temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state;
-- often in the plural; as, to be cheerful, or in good spirits; to be downhearted, or in bad spirits.
-intent; real meaning;
-- opposed to the letter, or to formal statement; also, characteristic quality, especially such as is derived from the individual genius or the personal character; as, the spirit of an enterprise, of a document, or the like.
-tenuous, volatile, airy, or vapory substance, possessed of active qualities.
-any liquid produced by distillation; especially, alcohol, the spirits, or spirit, of wine (it having been first distilled from wine):
-- often in the plural.
-rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors.
-a solution in alcohol of a volatile principle. cf. tincture.
-any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
-stannic chloride. see under stannic.
-to animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men;
-- sometimes followed by up.
-to convey rapidly and secretly, or mysteriously, as if by the agency of a spirit; to kidnap;
-- often with away, or off.

spiritally
-by means of the breath.

spirited
-of spirit
-animated or possessed by a spirit.
-animated; full of life or vigor; lively; full of spirit or fire; as, a spirited oration; a spirited answer.

spiritful
-full of spirit; spirited.

spiritielle
-of the nature, or having the appearance, of a spirit; pure; refined; ethereal.

spiriting
-of spirit

spiritism
-spiritualsm.

spiritist
-a spiritualist.

spiritless
-destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.
-destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire.
-having no breath; extinct; dead.

spiritoso
-spirited; spiritedly;
-- a direction to perform a passage in an animated, lively manner.

spiritous
-like spirit; refined; defecated; pure.
-ardent; active.

spiritousness
-quality of being spiritous.

spiritual
-consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being.
-of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
-of or pertaining to the moral feelings or states of the soul, as distinguished from the external actions; reaching and affecting the spirits.
-of or pertaining to the soul or its affections as influenced by the spirit; controlled and inspired by the divine spirit; proceeding from the holy spirit; pure; holy; divine; heavenly
-minded;
-- opposed to carnal.
-not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as, the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation.
-a spiritual function, office, or affair. see spirituality, 2.

spiritual
-minded
-having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections.

spiritualism
-the quality or state of being spiritual.
-the doctrine, in opposition to the materialists, that all which exists is spirit, or soul
-- that what is called the external world is either a succession of notions impressed on the mind by the deity, as maintained by berkeley, or else the mere educt of the mind itself, as taught by fichte.
-a belief that departed spirits hold intercourse with mortals by means of physical phenomena, as by rappng, or during abnormal mental states, as in trances, or the like, commonly manifested through a person of special susceptibility, called a medium; spiritism; the doctrines and practices of spiritualists.

spiritualist
-one who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.
-one who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism.
-one who believes in direct intercourse with departed spirits, through the agency of persons commonly called mediums, by means of physical phenomena; one who attempts to maintain such intercourse; a spiritist.
-spiritualistic.

spiritualistic
-relating to, or connected with, spiritualism.

spiritualities
-of spirituality

spirituality
-the quality or state of being spiritual; incorporeality; heavenly
-mindedness.
-that which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.
-an ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.

spiritualization
-the act of spiritualizing, or the state of being spiritualized.

spiritualize
-to refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul.
-to give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense;
-- opposed to literalize.
-to extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

spiritualized
-of spiritualize

spiritualizer
-one who spiritualizes.

spiritualizing
-of spiritualize

spiritually
-in a spiritual manner; with purity of spirit; like a spirit.

spiritualness
-the quality or state of being spiritual or spiritual
-minded; spirituality.

spiritualty
-an ecclesiastical body; a spirituality.

spirituosity
-the quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.

spirituous
-having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure.
-containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic (esp. distilled) spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent; as, spirituous liquors.
-lively; gay; vivid; airy.

spirituousness
-the quality or state of being spirituous.

spirketing
-the planking from the waterways up to the port sills.

spirling
-sparling.

spirobacteria
-see the note under microbacteria.

spirochaeta
-alt. of spirochaete

spirochaete
-a genus of spirobacteria similar to spirillum, but distinguished by its motility. one species, the spirochaete obermeyeri, is supposed to be the cause of relapsing fever.

spirograph
-an instrument for recording the respiratory movements, as the sphygmograph does those of the pulse.

spirometer
-an instrument for measuring the vital capacity of the lungs, or the volume of air which can be expelled from the chest after the deepest possible inspiration. cf. pneumatometer.

spirometry
-the act or process of measuring the chest capacity by means of a spirometer.

spiroscope
-a wet meter used to determine the breathing capacity of the lungs.

spiroylic
-alt. of spiroylous

spiroylous
-pertaining to, or designating, a substance now called salicylal.

spirt
-same as spurt.

spirtle
-to spirt in a scattering manner.

spirula
-a genus of cephalopods having a multilocular, internal, siphunculated shell in the form of a flat spiral, the coils of which are not in contact.

spirulate
-having the color spots, or structural parts, arranged spirally.

spiry
-of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; serpentine.
-of or pertaining to a spire; like a spire, tall, slender, and tapering; abounding in spires; as, spiry turrets.

spiss
-thick; crowded; compact; dense.

spissated
-rendered dense or compact, as by evaporation; inspissated; thickened.

spissitude
-the quality or state of being spissated; as, the spissitude of coagulated blood, or of any coagulum.

spit
-a long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting.
-a small point of land running into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand.
-the depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.
-to thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal.
-to spade; to dig.
-to attend to a spit; to use a spit.
-of spit
-to eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth.
-to eject; to throw out; to belch.
-the secretion formed by the glands of the mouth; spitle; saliva; sputum.
-to throw out saliva from the mouth.
-to rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles.

spit curl
-a little lock of hair, plastered in a spiral form on the temple or forehead with spittle, or other adhesive substance.

spit
-venom
-poison spittle; poison ejected from the mouth.

spital
-a hospital.

spitalhouse
-a hospital.

spitball
-paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile.

spitbox
-a vessel to receive spittle.

spitchcock
-to split (as an eel) lengthwise, and broil it, or fry it in hot fat.
-an eel split and broiled.

spitchcocked
-broiled or fried after being split lengthwise;
-- said of eels.

spite
-ill
-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.
-vexation; chargrin; mortification.
-to be angry at; to hate.
-to treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
-to fill with spite; to offend; to vex.

spited
-of spite

spiteful
-filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious; as, a spiteful person or act.

spitfire
-a violent, irascible, or passionate person.

spitful
-a spadeful.

spitfuls
-of spitful

spiting
-of spite

spitous
-having spite; spiteful.

spitously
-spitefully.

spitscocked
-spitchcocked.

spitted
-of spit
-put upon a spit; pierced as if by a spit.
-shot out long;
-- said of antlers.
-p. p. of spit, v. i., to eject, to spit.

spitter
-one who ejects saliva from the mouth.
-one who puts meat on a spit.
-a young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.

spitting
-of spit
-of spit

spittle
-see spital.
-to dig or stir with a small spade.
-a small sort of spade.
-the thick, moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; spit.

spittly
-like spittle; slimy.

spittoon
-a spitbox; a cuspidor.

spitz dog
-a breed of dogs having erect ears and long silky hair, usually white;
-- called also pomeranian dog, and louploup.

spitzenburgh
-a kind of red and yellow apple, of medium size and spicy flavor. it originated at newtown, on long island.

splanchnapophyses
-of splanchnapophysis

splanchnapophysis
-any element of the skeleton in relation with the alimentary canal, as the jaws and hyoidean apparatus.

splanchnic
-of or pertaining to the viscera; visceral.

splanchno
-skeleton
-that part of the skeleton connected with the sense organs and the viscera.

splanchnography
-splanchnology.

splanchnology
-that part of anatomy which treats of the viscera; also, a treatise on the viscera.

splanchnopleure
-the inner, or visceral, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. see somatopleure.

splanchnotomy
-the dissection, or anatomy, of the viscera.

splandrel
-see spandrel.

splash
-to strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.
-to spatter water, mud, etc., upon; to wet.
-to strike and dash about water, mud, etc.; to dash in such a way as to spatter.
-water, or water and dirt, thrown upon anything, or thrown from a puddle or the like; also, a spot or daub, as of matter which wets or disfigures.
-a noise made by striking upon or in a liquid.

splashboard
-a guard in the front part of vehicle, to prevent splashing by a mud or water from the horse's heels;
-- in the united states commonly called dashboard.

splashed
-of splash

splasher
-one who, or that which, splashes.
-one of the guarde over the wheels, as of a carriage, locomotive, etc.
-a guard to keep off splashes from anything.

splashing
-of splash

splashy
-full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.

splatter
-to spatter; to splash.

splatterdash
-uproar.

splay
-to display; to spread.
-to dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
-to spay; to castrate.
-to turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
-displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
-a slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.

splayfeet
-of splayfoot

splayfoot
-a foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.
-alt. of splayfooted

splayfooted
-having a splayfoot or splayfeet.

splaymouth
-a wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision.

splaymouthed
-having a splaymouth.

splaymouths
-of splaymouth

spleen
-a peculiar glandlike but ductless organ found near the stomach or intestine of most vertebrates and connected with the vascular system; the milt. its exact function in not known.
-anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen.
-a fit of anger; choler.
-a sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
-melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
-a fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
-to dislke.

spleened
-deprived of the spleen.
-angered; annoyed.

spleenful
-displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy.

spleenish
-spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful.

spleenless
-having no spleen; hence, kind; gentle; mild.

spleenwort
-any fern of the genus asplenium, some species of which were anciently used as remedies for disorders of the spleen.

spleeny
-irritable; peevish; fretful.
-affected with nervous complaints; melancholy.

spleget
-a cloth dipped in a liquid for washing a sore.

splenalgia
-pain over the region of the spleen.

splenculi
-of splenculus

splenculus
-a lienculus.

splendent
-shining; glossy; beaming with light; lustrous; as, splendent planets; splendent metals. see the note under 3d luster, 4.
-very conspicuous; illustrious.

splendid
-possessing or displaying splendor; shining; very bright; as, a splendid sun.
-showy; magnificent; sumptuous; pompous; as, a splendid palace; a splendid procession or pageant.
-illustrious; heroic; brilliant; celebrated; famous; as, a splendid victory or reputation.

splendidious
-splendid.

splendidly
-in a splendid manner; magnificently.

splendidness
-the quality of being splendid.

splendidous
-splendid.

splendiferous
-splendor
-bearing; splendid.

splendor
-great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun.
-magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like.
-brilliancy; glory; as, the splendor of a victory.

splendorous
-splendid.

splendrous
-alt. of splendorous

splenetic
-affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful.
-a person affected with spleen.

splenetical
-splenetic.

splenetically
-in a splenetical manner.

splenial
-designating the splenial bone.
-of or pertaining to the splenial bone or splenius muscle.
-the splenial bone.

splenic
-of or pertaining to the spleen; lienal; as, the splenic vein.

splenical
-splenic.

splenish
-spleenish.

splenitis
-inflammation of the spleen.

splenitive
-splenetic.

splenium
-the thickened posterior border of the corpus callosum;
-- so called in allusion to its shape.

splenius
-a flat muscle of the back of the neck.

splenization
-a morbid state of the lung produced by inflammation, in which its tissue resembles that of the spleen.

splenocele
-hernia formed by the spleen.

splenography
-a description of the spleen.

splenoid
-resembling the spleen; spleenlike.

splenology
-the branch of science which treats of the spleen.

splenotomy
-dissection or anatomy of the spleen.
-an incision into the spleen; removal of the spleen by incision.

splent
-see splent.
-see splent coal, below.

spleuchan
-a pouch, as for tobacco.

splice
-to unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands,
-- the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.
-to unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.
-to unite in marrige.
-a junction or joining made by splicing.

spliced
-of splice

splicing
-of splice

spline
-a rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to receive such a rectangular piece.
-a long, flexble piece of wood sometimes used as a ruler.

splining
-of or pertaining to a spline.

splint
-a piece split off; a splinter.
-a thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set.
-a splint bone.
-a disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
-one of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. see splint armor, below.
-splint, or splent, coal. see splent coal, under splent.
-to split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver.
-to fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. see splint, n., 2.

splinted
-of splint

splinter
-to split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
-to fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
-to become split into long pieces.
-a thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot.

splintered
-of splinter

splintering
-of splinter

splinterproof
-proof against the splinters, or fragments, of bursting shells.

splintery
-consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral.

splinting
-of splint

split
-of split
-to divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin.
-to burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder.
-to divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite.
-to divide or separate into components;
-- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid.
-to part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them.
-to be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
-to separate into parties or factions.
-to burst with laughter.
-to divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
-to divide one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value.
-a crack, or longitudinal fissure.
-a breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
-a piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
-specif (leather manuf.), one of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
-a division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
-the substitution of more than one share of a corporation's stock for one share. the market price of the stock usually drops in proportion to the increase in outstanding shares of stock. the split may be in any ratio, as a two
-for
-one split; a three
-for
-two split.
-the division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player is usually obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created.
-divided; cleft.
-divided deeply; cleft.

split
-tail
-a california market fish (pogonichthys macrolepidotus) belonging to the carp family.
-the pintail duck.

split
-tongued
-having a forked tongue, as that of snakes and some lizards.

splitfeet
-the fissipedia.

splitted
-of split

splitter
-one who, or that which, splits.

splitting
-of split

splotch
-a spot; a stain; a daub.

splotchy
-covered or marked with splotches.

splurge
-a blustering demonstration, or great effort; a great display.
-to make a great display in any way, especially in oratory.

splutter
-to speak hastily and confusedly; to sputter.
-a confused noise, as of hasty speaking.

spluttered
-of splutter

splutterer
-one who splutters.

spluttering
-of splutter

spnsorial
-pertaining to a sponsor.

spodomancy
-divination by means of ashes.

spodomantic
-relating to spodomancy, or divination by means of ashes.

spodumene
-a mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emerald
-green color, occuring in prismatic crystals, often of great size. it is a silicate of aluminia and lithia. see hiddenite.

spoffish
-earnest and active in matters of no moment; bustling.

spoil
-to plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob;
-- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.
-to seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.
-to cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar.
-to render useless by injury; to injure fatally; to ruin; to destroy; as, to spoil paper; to have the crops spoiled by insects; to spoil the eyes by reading.
-to practice plunder or robbery.
-to lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.
-that which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
-public offices and their emoluments regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage;
-- commonly in the plural; as to the victor belong the spoils.
-that which is gained by strength or effort.
-the act or practice of plundering; robbery; aste.
-corruption; cause of corruption.
-the slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal.

spoilable
-capable of being spoiled.

spoiled
-of spoil

spoiler
-one who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.
-one who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.

spoilfive
-a certain game at cards in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be spoiled.

spoilful
-wasteful; rapacious.

spoiling
-of spoil

spoilsman
-one who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in united states politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service.

spoilsmen
-of spoilsman

spoilsmonger
-one who promises or distributes public offices and their emoluments as the price of services to a party or its leaders.

spoilt
-of spoil

spoke
-of speak
-of speak
-imp. of speak.
-the radius or ray of a wheel; one of the small bars which are inserted in the hub, or nave, and which serve to support the rim or felly.
-a projecting handle of a steering wheel.
-a rung, or round, of a ladder.
-a contrivance for fastening the wheel of a vehicle, to prevent it from turning in going down a hill.
-to furnish with spokes, as a wheel.

spoked
-of spoke

spoken
-of speak
-uttered in speech; delivered by word of mouth; oral; as, a spoken narrative; the spoken word.
-characterized by a certain manner or style in speaking;
-- often in composition; as, a pleasant
-spoken man.

spokeshave
-a kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work.

spokesman
-one who speaks for another.

spokesmen
-of spokesman

spoking
-of spoke

spoliate
-to plunder; to pillage; to despoil; to rob.

spoliated
-of spoliate

spoliating
-of spoliate

spoliation
-the act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation.
-robbery or plunder in war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea.
-the act of an incumbent in taking the fruits of his benefice without right, but under a pretended title.
-a process for possession of a church in a spiritual court.
-injury done to a document.

spoliative
-serving to take away, diminish, or rob; esp. (med.), serving to diminish sensibily the amount of blood in the body; as, spoliative bloodletting.

spoliator
-one who spoliates; a spoiler.

spoliatory
-tending to spoil; destructive; spoliative.

spondaic
-alt. of spondaical

spondaical
-or of pertaining to a spondee; consisting of spondees.
-containing spondees in excess; marked by spondees; as, a spondaic hexameter, i. e., one which has a spondee instead of a dactyl in the fifth foot.

spondee
-a poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the latin word leges.

spondulics
-money.

spondyl
-alt. of spondyle

spondyle
-a joint of the backbone; a vertebra.

spong
-an irregular, narrow, projecting part of a field.

sponge
-any one of numerous species of spongiae, or porifera. see illust. and note under spongiae.
-the elastic fibrous skeleton of many species of horny spongiae (keratosa), used for many purposes, especially the varieties of the genus spongia. the most valuable sponges are found in the mediterranean and the red sea, and on the coasts of florida and the west indies.
-one who lives upon others; a pertinaceous and indolent dependent; a parasite; a sponger.
-any spongelike substance.
-dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven.
-iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
-iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
-a mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. it consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.
-the extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel.
-to cleanse or wipe with a sponge; as, to sponge a slate or a cannon; to wet with a sponge; as, to sponge cloth.
-to wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
-fig.: to deprive of something by imposition.
-fig.: to get by imposition or mean arts without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast.
-to suck in, or imbile, as a sponge.
-fig.: to gain by mean arts, by intrusion, or hanging on; as, an idler sponges on his neighbor.
-to be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast, or leaven.

sponged
-of sponge

spongelet
-see spongiole.

spongeous
-resembling sponge; having the nature or qualities of sponge.

sponger
-one who sponges, or uses a sponge.
-one employed in gathering sponges.
-fig.: a parasitical dependent; a hanger
-on.

spongiae
-the grand division of the animal kingdom which includes the sponges;
-- called also spongida, spongiaria, spongiozoa, and porifera.

spongida
-spongiae.

spongiform
-resembling a sponge; soft and porous; porous.

spongilla
-a genus of siliceous spongea found in fresh water.

spongin
-the chemical basis of sponge tissue, a nitrogenous, hornlike substance which on decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and glycocoll.

sponginess
-the quality or state of being spongy.

sponging
-of sponge
-a. & n. from sponge, v.

spongiole
-a supposed spongelike expansion of the tip of a rootlet for absorbing water;
-- called also spongelet.

spongiolite
-one of the microsporic siliceous spicules which occur abundantly in the texture of sponges, and are sometimes found fossil, as in flints.

spongiopilin
-a kind of cloth interwoven with small pieces of sponge and rendered waterproof on one side by a covering of rubber. when moistend with hot water it is used as a poultice.

spongiose
-alt. of spongious

spongious
-somewhat spongy; spongelike; full of small cavities like sponge; as, spongious bones.

spongiozoa
-see sponglae.

spongoblast
-one of the cells which, in sponges, secrete the spongin, or the material of the horny fibers.

spongoid
-resembling sponge; like sponge.

spongy
-soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones.
-wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.
-having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge.

sponk
-see spunk.

sponsal
-relating to marriage, or to a spouse; spousal.

sponsible
-responsible; worthy of credit.

sponsion
-the act of becoming surety for another.
-an act or engagement on behalf of a state, by an agent not specially authorized for the purpose, or by one who exceeds the limits of authority.

sponsional
-of or pertaining to a pledge or agreement; responsible.

sponson
-one of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat.
-one of the slanting supports under the guards of a steamboat.
-one of the armored projections fitted with gun ports, used on modern war vessels.

sponsor
-one who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety.
-one who at the baptism of an infant professore the christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education; a godfather or godmother.

sponsorship
-state of being a sponsor.

spontaneities
-of spontaneity

spontaneity
-the quality or state of being spontaneous, or acting from native feeling, proneness, or temperament, without constraint or external force.
-the tendency to undergo change, characteristic of both animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or cheked by the environment.
-the tendency to activity of muscular tissue, including the voluntary muscles, when in a state of healthful vigor and refreshment.

spontaneous
-proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion.
-proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or natural law, without external force; as, spontaneous motion; spontaneous growth.
-produced without being planted, or without human labor; as, a spontaneous growth of wood.

spontoon
-a kind of half
-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the british infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers.

spook
-a spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin.
-the chimaera.

spool
-a piece of cane or red with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon.
-to wind on a spool or spools.

spooled
-of spool

spooler
-one who, or that which, spools.

spooling
-of spool

spoom
-to be driven steadily and swiftly, as before a strong wind; to be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a part of the sails spread; to scud under bare poles.

spoon
-see spoom.
-an implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.
-anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (fishing), a spoon bait.
-fig.: a simpleton; a spooney.
-to take up in, or as in, a spoon.
-to act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love.

spoon
-billed
-having the bill expanded and spatulate at the end.

spoon
-meat
-food that is, or must be, taken with a spoon; liquid food.

spoonbill
-any one of several species of wading birds of the genera ajaja and platalea, and allied genera, in which the long bill is broadly expanded and flattened at the tip.
-the shoveler. see shoveler, 2.
-the ruddy duck. see under ruddy.
-the paddlefish.

spoondrift
-spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea;
-- written also spindrift.

spooney
-weak
-minded; demonstratively fond; as, spooney lovers.
-a weak
-minded or silly person; one who is foolishly fond.

spooneye
-of spooney

spoonful
-the quantity which a spoon contains, or is able to contain; as, a teaspoonful; a tablespoonful.
-hence, a small quantity.

spoonfuls
-of spoonful

spoonily
-in a spoony manner.

spoonwood
-the mountain laurel (kalmia latifolia).

spoonworm
-a gephyrean worm of the genus thalassema, having a spoonlike probiscis.

spoonwort
-scurvy grass.

spoony
-same as spooney.

spoor
-the track or trail of any wild animal; as, the spoor of an elephant;
-- used originally by travelers in south africa.
-to follow a spoor or trail.

sporades
-stars not included in any constellation;
-- called also informed, or unformed, stars.

sporadial
-sporadic.

sporadic
-occuring singly, or apart from other things of the same kind, or in scattered instances; separate; single; as, a sporadic fireball; a sporadic case of disease; a sporadic example of a flower.

sporadical
-sporadic.

sporadically
-in a sporadic manner.

sporangia
-of sporangium

sporangiophore
-the axis or receptacle in certain ferns (as trichomanes), which bears the sporangia.

sporangium
-a spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.

spore
-one of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species.
-an embryo sac or embryonal vesicle in the ovules of flowering plants.
-a minute grain or germ; a small, round or ovoid body, formed in certain organisms, and by germination giving rise to a new organism; as, the reproductive spores of bacteria, etc.
-one of the parts formed by fission in certain protozoa. see spore formation, belw.

sporid
-a sporidium.

sporidia
-of sporidium

sporidiferous
-bearing sporidia.

sporidium
-a secondary spore, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi.
-a spore.

sporiferous
-bearing or producing spores.

sporification
-spore formation. see spore formation (b), under spore.

sporocarp
-a closed body or conceptacle containing one or more masses of spores or sporangia.
-a sporangium.

sporocyst
-an asexual zooid, usually forming one of a series of larval forms in the agamic reproduction of various trematodes and other parasitic worms. the sporocyst generally develops from an egg, but in its turn produces other larvae by internal budding, or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of minute germs. see redia.
-any protozoan when it becomes encysted produces germs by sporulation.

sporogenesis
-reproduction by spores.

sporogony
-the growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.

sporophore
-a placenta.
-that alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. in ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. cf. oophore.

sporophoric
-having the nature of a sporophore.

sporosac
-a hydrozoan reproductive zooid or gonophore which does not become medusoid in form or structure. see illust. under athecata.
-an early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia.

sporozoa
-an extensive division of parasitic protozoa, which increase by sporulation. it includes the gregarinida.

sporozoid
-same as zoospore.

sporran
-a large purse or pouch made of skin with the hair or fur on, worn in front of the kilt by highlanders when in full dress.

sport
-that which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
-mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
-that with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
-play; idle jingle.
-diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
-a plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. see sporting plant, under sporting.
-a sportsman; a gambler.
-to play; to frolic; to wanton.
-to practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
-to trifle.
-to assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species;
-- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. see sport, n., 6.
-to divert; to amuse; to make merry;
-- used with the reciprocal pronoun.
-to represent by any knd of play.
-to exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage.
-to give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner;
-- with off; as, to sport off epigrams.

sportability
-sportiveness.

sportal
-of or pertaining to sports; used in sports.

sported
-of sport

sporter
-one who sports; a sportsman.

sportful
-full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion.
-done in jest, or for mere play; sportive.

sporting
-of sport
-of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports.

sportingly
-in sport; sportively.

sportive
-tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry.

sportless
-without sport or mirth; joyless.

sportling
-a little person or creature engaged in sports or in play.

sportsman
-one who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc.

sportsmanship
-the practice of sportsmen; skill in field sports.

sportsmen
-of sportsman

sportula
-a gift; a present; a prize; hence, an alms; a largess.

sportulae
-of sportula

sportulary
-subsisting on alms or charitable contributions.

sportule
-a charitable gift or contribution; a gift; an alms; a dole; a largess; a sportula.

sporulation
-the act or process of forming spores; spore formation. see illust. of bacillus, b.

sporule
-a small spore; a spore.

sporuliferous
-producing sporules.

spot
-a mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
-a stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
-a small part of a different color from the main part, or from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card.
-a small extent of space; a place; any particular place.
-a variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.
-a sciaenoid food fish (liostomus xanthurus) of the atlantic coast of the united states. it has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. called also goody, lafayette, masooka, and old wife.
-the southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. see redfish.
-commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
-to make visible marks upon with some foreign matter; to discolor in or with spots; to stain; to cover with spots or figures; as, to spot a garnment; to spot paper.
-to mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal.
-to stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse.
-to become stained with spots.

spotless
-without a spot; especially, free from reproach or impurity; pure; untainted; innocent; as, a spotless mind; spotless behavior.

spotted
-of spot
-marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character.

spottedness
-state or quality of being spotted.

spotter
-one who spots.

spottiness
-the state or quality of being spotty.

spotting
-of spot

spotty
-full of spots; marked with spots.

spousage
-espousal.

spousal
-of or pertaining to a spouse or marriage; nuptial; matrimonial; conjugal; bridal; as, spousal rites; spousal ornaments.
-marriage; nuptials; espousal;
-- generally used in the plural; as, the spousals of hippolita.

spouse
-a man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife.
-a married man, in distinct from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband.
-to wed; to espouse.

spouse
-breach
-adultery.

spouseless
-destitute of a spouse; unmarried.

spousess
-a wife or bride.

spout
-to throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.
-to utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
-to pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch.
-to issue with with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery.
-to eject water or liquid in a jet.
-to utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
-that through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building.
-a trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.
-a discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.

spouted
-of spout

spouter
-one who, or that which, spouts.

spoutfish
-a marine animal that spouts water;
-- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes.

spouting
-of spout

spoutless
-having no spout.

spoutshell
-any marine gastropod shell of the genus apporhais having an elongated siphon. see illust. under rostrifera.

sprack
-quick; lively; alert.

sprad
-p. p. of spread.

spradde
-imp. of spread.

sprag
-a young salmon.
-a billet of wood; a piece of timber used as a prop.
-to check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep grade, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel.
-to prop or sustain with a sprag.
-see sprack, a.

spragged
-of sprag

spragging
-of sprag

sprain
-to weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation; as, to sprain one's ankle.
-the act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining; as, a bad sprain of the wrist.

sprained
-of sprain

spraining
-of sprain

spraints
-the dung of an otter.

sprang
-imp. of spring.
-of spring

sprat
-a small european herring (clupea sprattus) closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard;
-- called also garvie. the name is also applied to small herring of different kinds.
-a california surf
-fish (rhacochilus toxotes);
-- called also alfione, and perch.

sprawl
-to spread and stretch the body or limbs carelessly in a horizontal position; to lie with the limbs stretched out ungracefully.
-to spread irregularly, as vines, plants, or tress; to spread ungracefully, as chirography.
-to move, when lying down, with awkward extension and motions of the limbs; to scramble in creeping.

sprawled
-of sprawl

sprawling
-of sprawl

spray
-a small shoot or branch; a twig.
-a collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a beautiful spray.
-a side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold.
-a group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
-water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like.
-a jet of fine medicated vapor, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer.
-an instrument for applying such a spray; an atomizer.
-to let fall in the form of spray.
-to throw spray upon; to treat with a liquid in the form of spray; as, to spray a wound, or a surgical instrument, with carbolic acid.

sprayboard
-see dashboard, n., 2 (b).

spread
-of spread
-to extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail.
-to extend so as to cover something; to extend to a great or grater extent in every direction; to cause to fill or cover a wide or wider space.
-to divulge; to publish, as news or fame; to cause to be more extensively known; to disseminate; to make known fully; as, to spread a report;
-- often acompanied by abroad.
-to propagate; to cause to affect great numbers; as, to spread a disease.
-to diffuse, as emanations or effluvia; to emit; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance.
-to strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground.
-to prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table.
-to extend in length and breadth in all directions, or in breadth only; to be extended or stretched; to expand.
-to be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty.
-to be made known more extensively, as news.
-to be propagated from one to another; as, the disease spread into all parts of the city.
-extent; compass.
-expansion of parts.
-a cloth used as a cover for a table or a bed.
-a table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast.
-a privilege which one person buys of another, of demanding certain shares of stock at a certain price, or of delivering the same shares of stock at another price, within a time agreed upon.
-an unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
-imp. & p. p. of spread, v.

spread
-eagle
-characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread
-eagle orator; a spread
-eagle speech.

spreader
-one who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates.
-a machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.

spreading
-of spread

spreadingly
-increasingly.

sprechery
-movables of an inferior description; especially, such as have been collected by depredation.

spree
-a merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic; a carousal.

sprenge
-to sprinkle; to scatter.

sprengel pump
-a form of air pump in which exhaustion is produced by a stream of mercury running down a narrow tube, in the manner of an aspirator;
-- named from the inventor.

sprent
-p. p. of sprenge. sprinkled.

sprew
-thrush.

spreynd
-p. p. of sprenge. sprinkled.

sprig
-a small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley.
-a youth; a lad;
-- used humorously or in slight disparagement.
-a brad, or nail without a head.
-a small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.
-to mark or adorn with the representation of small branches; to work with sprigs; as, to sprig muslin.

sprigged
-of sprig
-having sprigs.

sprigging
-of sprig

spriggy
-full of sprigs or small branches.

spright
-spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood.
-a supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost.
-a kind of short arrow.
-to haunt, as a spright.

sprightful
-full of spirit or of life; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay.

sprightless
-destitute of life; dull; sluggish.

sprightliness
-the quality or state of being sprightly; liveliness; life; briskness; vigor; activity; gayety; vivacity.

sprightly
-sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance.

sprigtail
-the pintail duck;
-- called also sprig, and spreet
-tail.
-the sharp
-tailed grouse.

spring
-to leap; to bound; to jump.
-to issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
-to start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
-to fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
-to bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.
-to shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge; as a plant from its seed, as streams from their source, and the like;
-often followed by up, forth, or out.
-to issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
-to grow; to prosper.
-to cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant.
-to produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly.
-to cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.
-to crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard.
-to cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.
-to bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place;
-- often with in, out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar.
-to pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence.
-a leap; a bound; a jump.
-a flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a bow.
-elastic power or force.
-an elastic body of any kind, as steel, india rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force.
-any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; as issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain.
-any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
-that which springs, or is originated, from a source;
-a race; lineage.
-a youth; a springal.
-a shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland.
-that which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
-the season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow; the vernal season, usually comprehending the months of march, april, and may, in the middle latitudes north of the equator.
-the time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.
-a crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.
-a line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.

springal
-alt. of springall
-an ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.

springald
-alt. of springall

springall
-an active, springly young man.

springboard
-an elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.

springbok
-alt. of springbuck

springbuck
-a south african gazelle (gazella euchore) noted for its graceful form and swiftness, and for its peculiar habit of springing lighty and suddenly into the air. it has a white dorsal stripe, expanding into a broad patch of white on the rump and tail. called also springer.

springe
-a noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare.
-to catch in a springe; to insnare.
-to sprinkle; to scatter.

springer
-one who, or that which, springs; specifically, one who rouses game.
-a young plant.
-the impost, or point at which an arch rests upon its support, and from which it seems to spring.
-the bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. the skew back is one form of springer.
-the rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting.
-the grampus.
-a variety of the field spaniel. see spaniel.
-a species of antelope; the sprinkbok.

springhalt
-a kind of lameness in horse. see stringhalt.

springhead
-a fountain or source.

springiness
-the state or quality of being springly.

springing
-of spring
-the act or process of one who, or that which, springs.
-growth; increase; also, that which springs up; a shoot; a plant.

springle
-a springe.

springlet
-a little spring.

springtail
-any one of numerous species of small apterous insects belonging to the order thysanura. they have two elastic caudal stylets which can be bent under the abdomen and then suddenly extended like a spring, thus enabling them to leap to a considerable distance. see collembola, and podura.

springtide
-the time of spring; springtime.

springtime
-the season of spring; springtide.

springy
-resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step.
-abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as, springy land.

sprinkle
-to scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc.
-to scatter on; to disperse something over in small drops or particles; to besprinkle; as, to sprinkle the earth with water; to sprinkle a floor with sand.
-to baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
-to scatter a liquid, or any fine substance, so that it may fall in particles.
-to rain moderately, or with scattered drops falling now and then; as, it sprinkles.
-to fly or be scattered in small drops or particles.
-a small quantity scattered, or sparsely distributed; a sprinkling.
-a utensil for sprinkling; a sprinkler.

sprinkled
-of sprinkle

sprinkler
-one who sprinkles.
-an instrument or vessel used in sprinkling; specifically, a watering pot.

sprinkling
-of sprinkle
-the act of one who, or that which, sprinkles.
-a small quantity falling in distinct drops or particles; as, a sprinkling of rain or snow.
-hence, a moderate number or quantity distributed like drops.

sprint
-to run very rapidly; to run at full speed.
-the act of sprinting; a run of a short distance at full speed.

sprinted
-of sprint

sprinter
-one who sprints; one who runs in sprint races; as, a champion sprinter.

sprinting
-of sprint

sprit
-to throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out.
-to sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt.
-a shoot; a sprout.
-a small boom, pole, or spar, which crosses the sail of a boat diagonally from the mast to the upper aftmost corner, which it is used to extend and elevate.

sprite
-a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. see spright.
-an elf; a fairy; a goblin.
-the green woodpecker, or yaffle.

spriteful
-alt. of spritely

spritefully
-alt. of spritely

spriteliness
-alt. of spritely

spritely
-see sprightful, sprightfully, sprightliness, sprightly, etc.

spritsail
-a sail extended by a sprit.
-a sail formerly hung under the bowsprit, from the spritsail yard.

sprocket wheel
-same as chain wheel.

sprod
-a salmon in its second year.

sprong
-imp. of spring. sprung.

sprout
-to shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.
-to shoot into ramifications.
-to cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed.
-to deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.
-the shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch.
-young coleworts; brussels sprouts.

sprouted
-of sprout

sprouting
-of sprout

spruce
-any coniferous tree of the genus picea, as the norway spruce (p. excelsa), and the white and black spruces of america (p. alba and p. nigra), besides several others in the far northwest. see picea.
-the wood or timber of the spruce tree.
-prussia leather; pruce.
-neat, without elegance or dignity;
-- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons.
-sprightly; dashing.
-to dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce.
-to dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up.

spruced
-of spruce

sprucing
-of spruce

sprue
-strictly, the hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold.
-the waste piece of metal cast in this hole; hence, dross.
-same as sprew.

sprug
-to make smart.

sprung
-of spring
-of spring
-imp. & p. p. of spring.
-said of a spar that has been cracked or strained.

sprunt
-to spring up; to germinate; to spring forward or outward.
-anything short and stiff.
-a leap; a spring.
-a steep ascent in a road.
-active; lively; vigorous.

spruntly
-in a sprunt manner; smartly; vigorously; youthfully.

spry
-having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.

spud
-a sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large
-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes.
-a dagger.
-anything short and thick; specifically, a piece of dough boiled in fat.

spue
-see spew.

spuilzie
-see spulzie.

spuke
-see spook.

spuller
-one employed to inspect yarn, to see that it is well spun, and fit for the loom.

spulzie
-plunder, or booty.

spume
-frothy matter raised on liquids by boiling, effervescence, or agitation; froth; foam; scum.
-to froth; to foam.

spumed
-of spume

spumeous
-spumous.

spumescence
-the state of being foamy; frothiness.

spumescent
-resembling froth or foam; foaming.

spumid
-spumous; frothy.

spumiferous
-producing foam.

spuminess
-the quality or condition of being spumy; spumescence.

spuming
-of spume

spumous
-alt. of spumy

spumy
-consisting of, containing, or covered with, froth, scum, or foam; frothy; foamy.

spun
-of spin
-imp. & p. p. of spin.

spunge
-a sponge.

spunk
-wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of tinder made from a species of fungus; punk; amadou.
-an inflammable temper; spirit; mettle; pluck; as, a man of spunk.

spunky
-full of spunk; quick; spirited.

spur
-a sparrow.
-a tern.
-an implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. spurs were the badge of knighthood.
-that which goads to action; an incitement.
-something that projects; a snag.
-one of the large or principal roots of a tree.
-any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain burds, on the legs of insects, etc.; especially, the spine on a cock's leg.
-a mountain that shoots from any other mountain, or range of mountains, and extends to some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
-a spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale, to strip off the blubber.
-a brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
-the short wooden buttress of a post.
-a projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. it is generally carved in leafage.
-any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur.
-ergotized rye or other grain.
-a wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
-a piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
-a curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed.
-to prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse.
-to urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object; to incite; to stimulate; to instigate; to impel; to drive.
-to put spurs on; as, a spurred boot.
-to spur on one' horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit.

spur
-royal
-a gold coin, first made in the reign of edward iv., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. in the reigns of elizabeth and of james i., its value was fifteen shillings.

spur
-shell
-any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the genus trochus, or imperator. the shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur.

spur
-winged
-having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings.

spurgall
-a place galled or excoriated by much using of the spur.
-to gall or wound with a spur.

spurge
-to emit foam; to froth;
-- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation.
-any plant of the genus euphorbia. see euphorbia.

spurgewort
-any euphorbiaceous plant.

spurging
-a purging.

spurious
-not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate.
-not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue.

spurless
-having no spurs.

spurling
-a tern.

spurling
-line
-the line which forms the communication between the steering wheel and the telltale.

spurn
-to drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.
-to reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.
-to kick or toss up the heels.
-to manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.
-a kick; a blow with the foot.
-disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment.
-a body of coal left to sustain an overhanding mass.

spurn
-water
-a channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.

spurned
-of spurn

spurner
-one who spurns.

spurning
-of spurn

spurred
-of spur
-wearing spurs; furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs.
-affected with spur, or ergot; as, spurred rye.

spurrer
-one who spurs.

spurrey
-see spurry.

spurrier
-one whose occupation is to make spurs.

spurring
-of spur

spurry
-an annual herb (spergula arvensis) with whorled filiform leaves, sometimes grown in europe for fodder.

spurt
-to gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt.
-to throw out, as a liquid, in a stream or jet; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth.
-a sudden and energetic effort, as in an emergency; an increased exertion for a brief space.
-to make a sudden and violent exertion, as in an emergency.

spurted
-of spurt

spurting
-of spurt

spurtle
-to spurt or shoot in a scattering manner.

spurway
-a bridle path.

sput
-an annular reenforce, to strengthen a place where a hole is made.

sputa
-of sputum

sputation
-the act of spitting; expectoration.

sputative
-inclined to spit; spitting much.

spute
-to dispute; to discuss.

sputter
-to spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
-to utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
-to throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
-to spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.
-moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

sputtered
-of sputter

sputterer
-one who sputters.

sputtering
-of sputter

sputum
-that which is expectorated; a salival discharge; spittle; saliva.

spy
-to gain sight of; to discover at a distance, or in a state of concealment; to espy; to see.
-to discover by close search or examination.
-to explore; to view; inspect; and examine secretly, as a country;
-- usually with out.
-to search narrowly; to scrutinize.
-one who keeps a constant watch of the conduct of others.
-a person sent secretly into an enemy's camp, territory, or fortifications, to inspect his works, ascertain his strength, movements, or designs, and to communicate such intelligence to the proper officer.

spyboat
-a boat sent to make discoveries and bring intelligence.

spyglass
-a small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.

spying
-of spy

spyism
-act or business of spying.

spynace
-alt. of spyne

spyne
-see pinnace, n., 1 (a).

spilikins
-of spilikin