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.

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.

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.

Of or pertaining to a spondee; consisting of spondees.

A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word l/g/s.

Money.

A joint of the backbone; a vertebra.

An irregular, narrow, projecting part of a field.

To suck in, or imbibe, as a sponge.

See Spongiole.

Resembling sponge; having the nature or qualities of sponge.

One who sponges, or uses a sponge.

The grand division of the animal kingdom which includes the sponges; -- called also Spongida, Spongiaria, Spongiozoa, and Porifera.

Spongiae.

Resembling a sponge; soft and porous; porous.

A genus of siliceous sponges found in fresh water.

The chemical basis of sponge tissue, a nitrogenous, hornlike substance which on decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and glycocoll.

The quality or state of being spongy.

a. n. from Sponge, v.

A supposed spongelike expansion of the tip of a rootlet for absorbing water; -- called also spongelet.

One of the microscopic siliceous spicules which occur abundantly in the texture of sponges, and are sometimes found fossil, as in flints.

A kind of cloth interwoven with small pieces of sponge and rendered waterproof on one side by a covering of rubber. When moistened with hot water it is used as a poultice.

Somewhat spongy; spongelike; full of small cavities like sponge; as, spongious bones.

See Spongiae.

One of the cells which, in sponges, secrete the spongin, or the material of the horny fibers.

Resembling sponge; like sponge.

Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones.

See Spunk.

Relating to marriage, or to a spouse; spousal.

Responsible; worthy of credit.

The act of becoming surety for another.

Of or pertaining to a pledge or agreement; responsible.

One of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat. One of the slanting supports under the guards of a steamboat. One of the armored projections fitted with gun ports, used on modern war vessels.

One who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety.

Pertaining to a sponsor.

State of being a sponsor.

The quality or state of being spontaneous, or acting from native feeling, proneness, or temperament, without constraint or external force.