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.

A wife or bride.

That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building.

One who, or that which, spouts.

A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (Mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes.

Having no spout.

Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.

Quick; lively; alert.

p. p. of Spread.

imp. of Spread.

See Sprack, a.

The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining; as, a bad sprain of the wrist.

The dung of an otter.

imp. of Spring.

A small European herring (Clupea sprattus) closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard; -- called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds. A California surf-fish (Rhacochilus toxotes); -- called also alfione, and perch.

To spread and stretch the body or limbs carelessly in a horizontal position; to lie with the limbs stretched out ungracefully.

The position or state resulting from sprawling; as, he sat on the couch in a sprawl; uncontrolled urban sprawl.

Small branches of a tree; twigs; sprays.

To let fall in the form of spray.

a small can containing a liquid under pressure of a gas that forces the liquid out in an aerosol form when the valve is opened.

a container for liquid, fitted with a conduit that can be supplied with compressed air, desiged to allowing the contents to be sprayed as an aerosol. Such devices are used to spray paints and various other liquids.

paint packaged in a spray can.

To paint (a surface) by means of a spray, using a spray can or spray gun.

See Dashboard, n., 2 (b).

One that sprays; any instrument for vaporizing and spraying liquids.

imp. p. p. of Spread, v.

To assume a spread-eagled position; -- it may be done reclining, for relaxation, or momentarily, as an exhibitionary maneuver in a sport.

Being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.

One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propagates.

Increasingly.

Movables of an inferior description; especially, such as have been collected by depredation.

A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic; a carousal.

To sprinkle; to scatter.

p. p. of Sprenge. Sprinkled.

Thrush.

p. p. of Sprenge. Sprinkled.

To mark or adorn with the representation of small branches; to work with sprigs; as, to sprig muslin.

Having sprigs.

Full of sprigs or small branches.

To haunt, as a spright.

Full of spirit or of life; spirited; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay.

Destitute of life; dull; sluggish.

The quality or state of being sprightly; liveliness; life; briskness; vigor; activity; gayety; vivacity.

Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance.

The pintail duck; -- called also sprig, and spreet-tail. The sharp-tailed grouse.

A leap; a bound; a jump.

An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.

An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.

A South African gazelle (Gazella euchore) noted for its graceful form and swiftness, and for its peculiar habit of springing lightly and suddenly into the air. It has a white dorsal stripe, expanding into a broad patch of white on the rump and tail. Called also springer.

To sprinkle; to scatter.

One who, or that which, springs; specifically, one who rouses game.

A kind of lameness in a horse. See Stringhalt.

A fountain or source.

The state or quality of being springy.

The act or process of one who, or that which, springs.

A springe.

A little spring.

Any one of numerous species of small apterous insects belonging to the order Thysanura. They have two elastic caudal stylets which can be bent under the abdomen and then suddenly extended like a spring, thus enabling them to leap to a considerable distance. See Collembola, and Podura.

The time of spring; springtime.

The season of spring; springtide.

Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step.

A small quantity scattered, or sparsely distributed; a sprinkling.

One who sprinkles.

The act of one who, or that which, sprinkles.

The act of sprinting; a run of a short distance at full speed.

One who sprints; one who runs in sprint races; as, a champion sprinter.

A small boom, pole, or spar, which crosses the sail of a boat diagonally from the mast to the upper aftmost corner, which it is used to extend and elevate.

A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See Spright.

See Sprightful, Sprightfully, Sprightliness, Sprightly, etc.

A sail extended by a sprit. A sail formerly hung under the bowsprit, from the spritsail yard.

A tooth or projection, as on the periphery of a wheel, shaped so as to engage with a chain. A sprocket wheel.

A salmon in its second year.

Sprung.

The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch.

To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up.

Strictly, the hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold. The waste piece of metal cast in this hole; hence, dross.

To make smart.

Said of a spar that has been cracked or strained.

Active; lively; vigorous.

In a sprunt manner; smartly; vigorously; youthfully.

Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.

A sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes.

See Spew.

See Spulzie.

See Spook.

One employed to inspect yarn, to see that it is well spun, and fit for the loom.

Plunder, or booty.

To froth; to foam.

Spumous.

The state of being foamy; frothiness.

Resembling froth or foam; foaming.

Spumous; frothy.

Producing foam.

The quality or condition of being spumy; spumescence.

Consisting of, containing, or covered with, froth, scum, or foam; frothy; foamy.

imp. p. p. of Spin.

A sponge.

Wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of tinder made from a species of fungus; punk; amadou.

Full of spunk; quick; spirited.

To spur on one's horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit.

A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. In the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings.

Any one of several species of handsome marine gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur.

Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings.

To gall or wound with a spur.

Any plant of the genus Euphorbia. See Euphorbia.

Any euphorbiaceous plant.

A purging.