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.

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

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.

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.

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

Hernia formed by the spleen.

A description of the spleen.

Resembling the spleen; spleenlike.

The branch of science which treats of the spleen.

Dissection or anatomy of the spleen. An incision into the spleen; removal of the spleen by incision.

See Splent.

A pouch, as for tobacco.

A junction or joining made by splicing.

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.

Of or pertaining to a spline.

To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver.

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.

Proof against the splinters, or fragments, of bursting shells.

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

Divided; cleft.

A California market fish (Pogonichthys macrolepidotus) belonging to the Carp family. The pintail duck.

Having a forked tongue, as that of snakes and some lizards.

The Fissipedia.

One who, or that which, splits.

A spot; a stain; a daub.

Covered or marked with splotches.

To make a great display in any way, especially in oratory.

A confused noise, as of hasty speaking.

One who splutters.

Divination by means of ashes.

Relating to spodomancy, or divination by means of ashes.

A mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emerald-green color, occurring in prismatic crystals, often of great size. It is a silicate of alumina and lithia. See Hiddenite.

Earnest and active in matters of no moment; bustling.

That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.

Capable of being spoiled.

One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.