A bravo; a bully; a duelist.

A little spade.

To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.

Shoulder blade.

An American market fish (Chaetodipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.

Any species of burrowing toads of the genus Scaphiopus, esp. Scaphiopus Holbrookii, of the Eastern United States; -- called also spade toad.

As much as a spade will hold or lift.

One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine.

Of a bright clear brown or chestnut color.

Spadiceous.

The ace of spades in omber and quadrille.

A fleshy spike of flowers, usually inclosed in a leaf called a spathe.

Same as Spade, 2.

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

To foretell; to divine.

A prophet; a diviner.

A female fortune teller.

A variety or macaroni made in tubes of small diameter.

A spagyrist.

Chemical; alchemical.

A chemist, esp. one devoted to alchemistic pursuits.

Formerly, one of the Turkish cavalry.

See 1st Spade.

imp. of Speak.

A net for catching crabs.

Specky.

A lath; a shaving or chip, as of wood or stone.

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.

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

To split off; to cleave off, as chips from a piece of timber, with an ax.

To be matched, as horses.

Quite new; brand-new; fire-new.

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

Of or pertaining to spanaemia; having impoverished blood.

To tie or hobble with a spancel.

An elastic textile material, used for clothing

A pair of grappling dogs for hoisting logs and timber.

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.

To wean.

A spangle or shining ornament.

To show brilliant spots or points; to glisten; to glitter.

One who, or that which, spangles.

Resembling, or consisting of, spangles; glittering; as, spangly light.

A native or inhabitant of Spain.

To follow like a spaniel.

The language of Spain.

To move with a quick, lively step between a trot and gallop; to move quickly.

A small coin.

Moving with a quick, lively pace, or capable of so doing; dashing.

Incapable of being spanned.

One who, or that which, spans.

The full blooming of a flower.

The collar of a roof; sparpiece.

The larva of any geometrid moth, as the cankerworm; a geometer; a measuring worm.

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 contest at sparring or boxing.

Hung with spar, as a cave.

A kind of small nail used by shoemakers.

A small California surf fish (Micrometrus aggregatus); -- called also shiner.

A cerecloth.

To scatter; to disperse; to rout.

The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.

Sparing; chary.

Unsparing.

In a spare manner; sparingly.

The quality or state of being lean or thin; leanness.

One who spares.

A piece of pork, consisting or ribs with little flesh on them.

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

The act of sprinkling.

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

The sparrow hawk.

Spare; saving; frugal; merciful.

To play the spark, beau, or lover.

A spark arrester.

Lively; brisk; gay.

Like a spark; airy; gay.

To disperse.

A tiger beetle.

A small spark.

Vivacity.

Emitting sparks; glittering; flashing; brilliant; lively; as, sparkling wine; sparkling eyes.

The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus). A young salmon. A tern.

The calf of the leg.

Of or pertaining to the Sparidae, a family of spinous-finned fishes which includes the scup, sheepshead, and sea bream. One of the Sparidae.

The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece.

To scatter; to spread; to disperse.

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.

Asparagus.

An evergreen shrub of the genus Erica (Erica passerina).

Resembling spar, or consisting of spar; abounding with spar; having a confused crystalline structure; spathose.

To scatter; to disperse.

Sparsely.

In a scattered or sparse manner.

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

Sparsely; scatteredly; here and there.

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.

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.

Articles made of the blades or fiber of the Lygeum Spartum and Stipa tenacissima (syn. Macrochloa tenacissima), kinds of grass used in Spain and other countries for making ropes, mats, baskets, nets, and mattresses.

An Anglo-Saxon battle-ax, or halberd.

The hedge sparrow.

Sparing; parsimonious.

An involuntary and unnatural contraction of one or more muscles or muscular fibers.

Spasmodic.

A medicine for spasm.

Same as Spasmodic, a.

Of or pertaining to spasm; spasmodic; especially, pertaining to tonic spasm; tetanic.

Spasmodically.

A state of spasm.

A legging; a gaiter.

Of or pertaining to the Spatangoidea. One of the 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.

A genus of heart-shaped sea urchins belonging to the Spatangoidea.

See Spitchcock.

A river flood; an overflow or inundation.

A spathe.

Having a spathe; resembling a spathe; spathal.

Furnished with a spathe; as, spathal flowers.

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.

Having a spathe or calyx like a sheath.