Spiegel iron () A fusible white cast iron containing a large amount of carbon (from three and a half to six per cent) and some manganese. When the manganese reaches twenty-five per cent and upwards it has a granular structure, and constitutes the alloy ferro manganese, largely used in the manufacture of Bessemer steel. Called also specular pig iron, spiegel, and spiegeleisen.
Spight (n. & v.) Spite.
Spight (n.) A woodpecker. See Speight.
Spignel (n.) Same as Spickenel.
Spignet (n.) An aromatic plant of America. See Spikenard.
Spigot (n.) A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock.
Spigurnel (n.) Formerly the title of the sealer of writs in chancery.
Spike (n.) A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
Spike (n.) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
Spike (n.) An ear of corn or grain.
Spike (n.) A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
Spiked (imp. & p. p.) of Spike
Spiking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spike
Spike (v. t.) To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.
Spike (v. t.) To set or furnish with spikes.
Spike (v. t.) To fix on a spike.
Spike (v. t.) To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it.
Spike (n.) Spike lavender. See Lavender.
Spikebill (n.) The hooded merganser.
Spikebill (n.) The marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa).
Spiked (a.) Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes.
Spikefish (n.) See Sailfish (a)
Spikelet (n.) A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of Quaking grass.
Spikenard (n.) An aromatic plant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for the hair is still prepared in India.
Spikenard (n.) A fragrant essential oil, as that from the Nardostachys Jatamansi.
Spiketail (n.) The pintail duck.
Spiky (a.) Like a spike; spikelike.
Spiky (a.) Having a sharp point, or sharp points; furnished or armed with spikes.
Spile (n.) A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask.
Spile (n.) A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple.
Spile (n.) A large stake driven into the ground as a support for some superstructure; a pile.
Spile (v. t.) To supply with a spile or a spigot; to make a small vent in, as a cask.
Spilikin (n.) One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins
spilikins (pl. ) of Spilikin
), a game played with such pieces; pushpin.Spill (n.) A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
Spill (n.) A slender piece of anything.
Spill (n.) A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
Spill (n.) A metallic rod or pin.
Spill (n.) A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
Spill (n.) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
Spill (n.) A little sum of money.
Spilt (imp. & p. p.) of Spill
Spilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spill
Spill (v. t.) To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
Spilled (imp. & p. p.) of Spill
Spilt () of Spill
Spilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spill
Spill (v. t.) To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
Spill (v. t.) To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
Spill (v. t.) To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; -- applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour.
Spill (v. t.) To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood.
Spill (v. t.) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
Spill (v. i.) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
Spill (v. i.) To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.
Spiller (n.) One who, or that which, spills.
Spiller (n.) A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter.
Spillet fishing () Alt. of Spilliard fishing
Spilliard fishing () A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
Spillikin (n.) See Spilikin.
Spillway (n.) A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.
Spilt () imp. & p. p. of Spill. Spilled.
Spilter (n.) Any one of the small branches on a stag's head.
Spilth (n.) Anything spilt, or freely poured out; slop; effusion.
Spun (imp. & p. p.) of Spin
Span (imp.) of Spin
Spinning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spin
Spin (v. t.) To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material.
Spin (v. t.) To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process, or by degrees; to extend to a great length; -- with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject.
Spin (v. t.) To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness.
Spin (v. t.) To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to spin a top.
Spin (v. t.) To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
Spin (v. t.) To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
Spin (v. i.) To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness.
Spin (v. i.) To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis.
Spin (v. i.) To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein.
Spin (v. i.) To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.
Spin (n.) The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle.
Spin (n.) Velocity of rotation about some specified axis.
Spina bifida () A congenital malformation in which the spinal column is cleft at its lower portion, and the membranes of the spinal cord project as an elastic swelling from the gap thus formed.
Spinaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant spinach, or the family of plants to which it belongs.
Spinach (n.) Alt. of Spinage
Spinage (n.) A common pot herb (Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the Goosefoot family.
Spinal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the backbone, or vertebral column; rachidian; vertebral.
Spinal (a.) Of or pertaining to a spine or spines.
Spinate (a.) Bearing a spine; spiniform.
Spindle (n.) The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.
Spindle (n.) A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
Spindle (n.) The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc.
Spindle (n.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
Spindle (n.) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
Spindle (n.) The fusee of a watch.
Spindle (n.) A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
Spindle (n.) A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
Spindle (n.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
Spindle (n.) Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.
Spindle (n.) Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
Spindled (imp. & p. p.) of Spindle
Spindling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spindle
Spindle (v. i.) To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.
Spindle-legged (a.) Having long, slender legs.