Having the shape of a spicule.

Producing or containing spicules.

A division of sponges including those which have independent siliceous spicules.

Same as Spicule.

Flavored with, or containing, spice or spices; fragrant; aromatic; as, spicy breezes.

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.

Infested by spiders; cobwebbed.

Like a spider.

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.

imp. p. p. of Spy.

See Spiegel iron.

A woodpecker. See Speight.

Same as Spickenel.

An aromatic plant of America. See Spikenard.

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

Formerly the title of the sealer of writs in chancery.

Spike lavender. See Lavender.

The hooded merganser. The marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa).

Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes.

See Sailfish (a)

A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of Quaking grass.

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.

The pintail duck.

Like a spike; spikelike.

To supply with a spile or a spigot; to make a small vent in, as a cask.

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 (spilikins), a game played with such pieces; pushpin.

To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.

One who, or that which, spills.

See Spilikin.

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

imp. p. p. of Spill. Spilled.

Any one of the small branches on a stag's head.

Anything spilt, or freely poured out; slop; effusion.

The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle.

a spokesperson for a political party or candidate who tries to forestall negative publicity.

a machine that uses centrifugal motion to dry the clothes that are put into it.

a party game in which a player spins a bottle and kisses the person that it points to when it stops spinning; -- usually played by children.

a game in which something round (as a plate) is spun on edge and the name of a player is called; the named player must catch the spinning object before it falls or pay a forfeit.

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

a beet lacking a swollen root; it is grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks.

a disease of spinach plants.

A common pot herb (Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the Goosefoot family.

Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the backbone, or vertebral column; rachidian; vertebral.

Bearing a spine; spiniform.

To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.

Having long, slender legs.

Having long, slender legs.

Having the shape of a spindle.

A spindleshanks.

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

The pintail duck.

The larva of a noctuid moth (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.

Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, a spindling tree; a spindling boy.

Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, spindly legs.. Used in some cases to suggest weakness.

Same as Spoondrift.

A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.

Having fine supported by spinous fin rays; -- said of certain fishes.

Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips.

A fish having spines in, or in front of, the dorsal fins.

Any species of Australian birds of the genus Acanthorhynchus. They are related to the honey eaters.

Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle.

Having no spine, or vertebral column.

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.

The state or quality of being spinescent or spiny; also, a spiny growth or covering, as of certain animals.

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

A spinny.

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.

Slit; cleft.

Having spines arranged spirally. See Spicule.

Producing spines; bearing thorns or spines; thorny; spiny.

A genus of chiefly Australian grasses, the seeds of which bear an elastic spine. Spinifex hirsutus (black grass) and Spinifex longifolius are useful as sand binders. Spinifex paradoxusis a valuable perennial fodder plant. Also, a plant of this genus.

Shaped like a spine.

Bearing a spine or spines; thorn-bearing.

Quality of being spiny.

The chaffinch.

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

One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.

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.

One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders.

Same as Spinny.

a. n. from Spin.

Thin and long; slim; slender.

Full of spines; armed with thorns; thorny.

The quality or state of being spiny or thorny; spininess.

Spinose; thorny.

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.

A believer in Spinozism.

A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin.

A woman who spins.

The business of one who spins; spinning.

A small instrument containing a minute particle of a radium compound mounted in front of a fluorescent screen and viewed with magnifying lenses. The tiny flashes produced by the continual bombardment of the screen by the / rays are thus rendered visible.

A minute spine.

Having small spines; somewhat thorny.

Covered with small spines.

See Spinny.

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.

Capable of being breathed; respirable.

The nostril, or one of the nostrils, of whales, porpoises, and allied animals.

Of or pertaining to a spiracle.

A genus of shrubs or perennial herbs including the meadowsweet and the hardhack.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the meadowsweet (Spiraea); formerly, designating an acid which is now called salicylic acid.

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.

The quality or states of being spiral.

In a spiral form, manner, or direction.

One of the special defensive zooids of certain hydroids. They have the form of long, slender tentacles, and bear lasso cells.

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.

The occasional twisted growth of the parts of a flower.

The act of breathing.

A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.

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

One of certain minute coiled threads in the coating of some seeds. When moistened these threads protrude in great numbers.

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.

A genus of common gram-negative motile microorganisms (family Spirillaceae) having the form of spiral-shaped filaments. They are obligately microaerophilic, and do not ferment carbohydrates.

Shooting up in a spire or spires.

To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men; -- sometimes followed by up.

By means of the breath.

Animated or possessed by a spirit.

Full of spirit; spirited.

Spiritualsm.

A spiritualist.