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.

Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; counterfeit; false; adulterate.

Having no spurs.

A tern.

The line which forms the communication between the steering wheel and the telltale.

A kick; a blow with the foot.

A channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.

One who spurns.

Wearing spurs; furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs.

One who spurs.

See Spurry.

One whose occupation is to make spurs.

An annual herb (Spergula arvensis) with whorled filiform leaves, sometimes grown in Europe for fodder.

To make a sudden and violent exertion, as in an emergency.

To spurt or shoot in a scattering manner.

A bridle path.

An annular reenforce, to strengthen a place where a hole is made.

The act of spitting; expectoration.

Inclined to spit; spitting much.

To dispute; to discuss.

Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

That which is expectorated; a salival discharge; spittle; saliva.

One who keeps a constant watch of the conduct of others.

A boat sent to make discoveries and bring intelligence.

A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.

Act or business of spying.

See Pinnace, n., 1 (a).

To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.

A young chicken before it is fully fledged.

To crush; to quash; to squash.

Thick; fat; heavy.

A scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl.

One who squabbles; a contentious person; a brawler.

Short and thick; sqabbish.

A heron (Ardea comata) found in Asia, Northern Africa, and Southern Europe.

Sloppy mud.

Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of troops drawn up in a square.

Formed into squadrons, or squares.

To throw sticks at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly.

Squeamish.

The suborder of elasmobranch fishes which comprises the sharks.

Dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty.

The quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.

In a squalid manner.

Quality or state of being squalid.

A loud scream; a harsh cry.

One who squalls; a screamer.

Abounding with squalls; disturbed often with sudden and violent gusts of wind; gusty; as, squally weather.

A genus of fossil whales belonging to the Phocodontia; -- so called because their teeth are serrated, like a shark's.

Pertaining to Squalodon.

Like or pertaining to a shark or sharks.

Squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity.

An oilskin hat or southwester; -- a fisherman's name.

A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred consisting of epithelium.

Squamose.

A division of edentates having the body covered with large, imbricated horny scales. It includes the pangolins.

Same as Squamose.

A scale.

A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea.

Furnished or covered with little scales; squamulose.

Having the shape of a scale.

Bearing scales.

Any one of a group of fishes having the dorsal and anal fins partially covered with scales.

Resembling a scale; also, covered with scales; scaly.

Scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone. Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone. The squamous part of the temporal bone, or a bone corresponding to it, in many of the lower vertebrates. See Temporal bone, under Temporal.

Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale.

Of or pertaining to both the squamosal and zygomatic bones; -- applied to a bone, or a center of ossification, in some fetal skulls. A squamozygomatic bone.

One of the little hypogynous scales found in the flowers of grasses; a lodicule.

Same as Squamulose.

Same as Squamula.

Having little scales; squamellate; squamulate.

The act of squandering; waste.

One who squanders.

In a squandering manner.

To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit.

Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.

Having the toe square.

A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly.

In a square form or manner.

The quality of being square; as, an instrument to try the squareness of work.

One who, or that which, squares.