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.
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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.
Proceeding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proposition.
A kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers.
A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin.
To wind on a spool or spools.
One who, or that which, spools.
To be driven steadily and swiftly, as before a strong wind; to be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a part of the sails spread; to scud under bare poles.
To fish with a spoon bait.
Having the bill expanded and spatulate at the end.
Food that is, or must be, taken with a spoon; liquid food.
Any one of several species of wading birds of the genera Ajaja and Platalea, and allied genera, in which the long bill is broadly expanded and flattened at the tip.
Spray blown from the tops of waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift.
A weak-minded or silly person; one who is foolishly fond.
The yautia.
The quantity which a spoon contains, or is able to contain; as, a teaspoonful; a tablespoonful.
In a spoony manner.
The mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia).
A gephyrean worm of the genus Thalassema, having a spoonlike proboscis.
Scurvy grass.
Same as Spooney.
To follow a spoor or trail.
Stars not included in any constellation; -- called also informed, or unformed, stars.
Sporadic.
Occurring singly, or apart from other things of the same kind, or in scattered instances; separate; single; as, a sporadic fireball; a sporadic case of disease; a sporadic example of a flower.
Sporadic.
In a sporadic manner.
The axis or receptacle in certain ferns (as Trichomanes), which bears the sporangia.
A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.
One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species.
A sporidium.
Bearing sporidia.
A secondary spore, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi. A spore.
Bearing or producing spores.
Spore formation. See Spore formation (b), under Spore.
A closed body or conceptacle containing one or more masses of spores or sporangia. A sporangium.
An asexual zooid, usually forming one of a series of larval forms in the agamic reproduction of various trematodes and other parasitic worms. The sporocyst generally develops from an egg, but in its turn produces other larvae by internal budding, or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of minute germs. See Redia.
Reproduction by spores.
The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.
A placenta. That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore.
Having the nature of a sporophore.
In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores; -- opposed to gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.
A hydrozoan reproductive zooid or gonophore which does not become medusoid in form or structure. See Illust. under Athecata. An early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable of reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia.
An extensive division of parasitic Protozoa, which increase by sporulation. It includes the Gregarinida.
Same as Zoospore.
In certain Sporozoa, a small active, usually elongate, sickle-shaped or somewhat amoeboid spore, esp. one of those produced by division of the passive spores into which the zygote divides. The sporozoites reproduce asexually.
A large purse or pouch made of skin with the hair or fur on, worn in front of the kilt by Highlanders when in full dress.
To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun.
Sportiveness.
Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports.
One who sports; a sportsman.
Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion.
Of, pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sports; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports.
In sport; sportively.
Tending to, engaged in, or provocative of, sport; gay; frolicsome; playful; merry.
Without sport or mirth; joyless.
A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play.
One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc.
The practice of sportsmen; skill in field sports.
A gift; a present; a prize; hence, an alms; a largess.
Subsisting on alms or charitable contributions.
A charitable gift or contribution; a gift; an alms; a dole; a largess; a sportula.
The act or process of forming spores; spore formation. See Illust. of Bacillus, (b).
A small spore; a spore.
Producing sporules.
Lit., being on the spot, or place; on hand for immediate delivery after sale; -- said of commodities; as, spot wheat.
Without a spot; especially, free from reproach or impurity; pure; untainted; innocent; as, a spotless mind; spotless behavior.
The projected spot or circle of light used to illuminate brilliantly a single person or object or group on the stage, leaving the rest of the stage more or less unilluminated.
Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character.
State or quality of being spotted.
One who spots.
The state or quality of being spotty.
Full of spots; marked with spots.
Espousal.
Marriage; nuptials; espousal; -- generally used in the plural; as, the spousals of Hippolita.
To wed; to espouse.
Adultery.
Destitute of a spouse; unmarried.
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