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.

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.

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.

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.

Wasteful; rapacious.

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.

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

To furnish with spokes, as a wheel.

Uttered in speech; delivered by word of mouth; oral; as, a spoken narrative; the spoken word.

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

One who speaks for another.

To plunder; to pillage; to despoil; to rob.

The act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation.

Serving to take away, diminish, or rob; esp. (Med.), serving to diminish sensibly the amount of blood in the body; as, spoliative bloodletting.

One who spoliates; a spoiler.

Tending to spoil; destructive; spoliative.