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.

Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.

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

Like spirit; refined; defecated; pure.

Quality of being spiritous.

A spiritual function, office, or affair. See Spirituality, 2.

Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections.

The quality or state of being spiritual.

Spiritualistic.

Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism.

The quality or state of being spiritual; incorporeality; heavenly-mindedness.

The act of spiritualizing, or the state of being spiritualized.

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.

One who spiritualizes.

In a spiritual manner; with purity of spirit; like a spirit.

The quality or state of being spiritual or spiritual-minded; spirituality.

An ecclesiastical body; a spirituality.

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

The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.

Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure.

The quality or state of being spirituous.

The planking from the waterways up to the port sills.

Sparling.

See the Note under Microbacteria.

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.

An instrument for recording the respiratory movements, as the sphygmograph does those of the pulse.

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.

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

A wet meter used to determine the breathing capacity of the lungs.

Pertaining to, or designating, a substance now called salicylal.

Same as Spurt.

To spirt in a scattering manner.

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.

Having the color spots, or structural parts, arranged spirally.

Of or pertaining to a spire; like a spire, tall, slender, and tapering; abounding in spires; as, spiry turrets.

Thick; crowded; compact; dense.

Rendered dense or compact, as by evaporation; inspissated; thickened.

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

To throw out saliva from the mouth.

Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile; -- a childish prank.

Poison spittle; poison ejected from the mouth.

A hospital.

A hospital.

A vessel to receive spittle.

An eel split and broiled.

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

To be angry at; to hate.

A violent, irascible, or passionate person.

A spadeful.

Having spite; spiteful.

Spitefully.

Spitchcocked.

p. p. of Spit, v. i., to eject, to spit.

One who puts meat on a spit.

The thick, moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; spit.

Like spittle; slimy.

A spitbox; a cuspidor.

A kind of red and yellow apple, of medium size and spicy flavor. It originated at Newtown, on Long Island.

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

Of or pertaining to the viscera; visceral.

That part of the skeleton connected with the sense organs and the viscera.

Splanchnology.

That part of anatomy which treats of the viscera; also, a treatise on the viscera.

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.

The dissection, or anatomy, of the viscera.

See Spandrel.

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 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.

One who, or that which, splashes.

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

To spatter; to splash.

Uproar.

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.

A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.

Having a splayfoot or splayfeet.

A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision.

Having a splaymouth.

To dislke.

Deprived of the spleen.

Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy.

Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful.

Having no spleen; hence, kind; gentle; mild.

Any fern of the genus Asplenium, some species of which were anciently used as remedies for disorders of the spleen.

Irritable; peevish; fretful.

A cloth dipped in a liquid for washing a sore.

Pain over the region of the spleen.

A lienculus.

Shining; glossy; beaming with light; lustrous; as, splendent planets; splendent metals. See the Note under 3d Luster, 4.

Possessing or displaying splendor; shining; very bright; as, a splendid sun.

Splendid.

In a splendid manner; magnificently.

The quality of being splendid.

Splendid.

Splendor-bearing; splendid.

Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun.

Splendid.

A person affected with spleen.

Splenetic.

In a splenetical manner.

The splenial bone.

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

Splenic.

Spleenish.

Inflammation of the spleen.

Splenetic.

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

A flat muscle of the back of the neck.