Spat () of Spit
Spitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spit
Spit (n.) To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth.
Spit (n.) To eject; to throw out; to belch.
Spit (n.) The secretion formed by the glands of the mouth; spitle; saliva; sputum.
Spit (v. i.) To throw out saliva from the mouth.
Spit (v. i.) To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles.
Spital (n.) A hospital.
Spitalhouse (n.) A hospital.
Spitball (n.) Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile.
Spitbox (n.) A vessel to receive spittle.
Spitchcock (v. t.) To split (as an eel) lengthwise, and broil it, or fry it in hot fat.
Spitchcock (n.) An eel split and broiled.
Spitchcocked (a.) Broiled or fried after being split lengthwise; -- said of eels.
Spit curl () A little lock of hair, plastered in a spiral form on the temple or forehead with spittle, or other adhesive substance.
Spite (n.) Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.
Spite (n.) Vexation; chargrin; mortification.
Spited (imp. & p. p.) of Spite
Spiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spite
Spite (v. t.) To be angry at; to hate.
Spite (v. t.) To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
Spite (v. t.) To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
Spiteful (a.) Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious; as, a spiteful person or act.
Spitfire (n.) A violent, irascible, or passionate person.
Spitfuls (pl. ) of Spitful
Spitful (n.) A spadeful.
Spitous (a.) Having spite; spiteful.
Spitously (adv.) Spitefully.
Spitscocked (a.) Spitchcocked.
Spitted (a.) Put upon a spit; pierced as if by a spit.
Spitted (a.) Shot out long; -- said of antlers.
Spitted () p. p. of Spit, v. i., to eject, to spit.
Spitter (n.) One who ejects saliva from the mouth.
Spitter (n.) One who puts meat on a spit.
Spitter (n.) A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.
Spittle (n.) See Spital.
Spittle (v. t.) To dig or stir with a small spade.
Spittle (n.) A small sort of spade.
Spittle (n.) The thick, moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; spit.
Spittly (a.) Like spittle; slimy.
Spittoon (n.) A spitbox; a cuspidor.
Spit-venom (n.) Poison spittle; poison ejected from the mouth.
Spitz dog () A breed of dogs having erect ears and long silky hair, usually white; -- called also Pomeranian dog, and louploup.
Spitzenburgh (n.) A kind of red and yellow apple, of medium size and spicy flavor. It originated at Newtown, on Long Island.
Splanchnapophyses (pl. ) of Splanchnapophysis
Splanchnapophysis (n.) Any element of the skeleton in relation with the alimentary canal, as the jaws and hyoidean apparatus.
Splanchnic (a.) Of or pertaining to the viscera; visceral.
Splanchnography (n.) Splanchnology.
Splanchnology (n.) That part of anatomy which treats of the viscera; also, a treatise on the viscera.
Splanchnopleure (n.) The inner, or visceral, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See Somatopleure.
Splanchno-skeleton (n.) That part of the skeleton connected with the sense organs and the viscera.
Splanchnotomy (n.) The dissection, or anatomy, of the viscera.
Splandrel (n.) See Spandrel.
Splashed (imp. & p. p.) of Splash
Splashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splash
Splash (v. t.) To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.
Splash (v. t.) To spatter water, mud, etc., upon; to wet.
Splash (v. i.) To strike and dash about water, mud, etc.; to dash in such a way as to spatter.
Splash (n.) 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.
Splash (n.) A noise made by striking upon or in a liquid.
Splashboard (n.) 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.
Splasher (n.) One who, or that which, splashes.
Splasher (n.) One of the guarde over the wheels, as of a carriage, locomotive, etc.
Splasher (n.) A guard to keep off splashes from anything.
Splashy (a.) Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.
Splatter (v. i. & t.) To spatter; to splash.
Splatterdash (n .) Uproar.
Splay (v. t.) To display; to spread.
Splay (v. t.) To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
Splay (v. t.) To spay; to castrate.
Splay (v. t.) To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
Splay (a.) Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
Splay (a.) 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.
Splayfeet (pl. ) of Splayfoot
Splayfoot (n.) A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.
Splayfoot (a.) Alt. of Splayfooted
Splayfooted (a.) Having a splayfoot or splayfeet.
Splaymouths (pl. ) of Splaymouth
Splaymouth (n.) A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision.
Splaymouthed (a.) Having a splaymouth.
Spleen (n.) A peculiar glandlike but ductless organ found near the stomach or intestine of most vertebrates and connected with the vascular system; the milt. Its exact function in not known.
Spleen (n.) Anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen.
Spleen (n.) A fit of anger; choler.
Spleen (n.) A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
Spleen (n.) Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
Spleen (n.) A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
Spleen (v. t.) To dislke.
Spleened (a.) Deprived of the spleen.
Spleened (a.) Angered; annoyed.
Spleenful (a.) Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy.
Spleenish (a.) Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful.
Spleenless (a.) Having no spleen; hence, kind; gentle; mild.
Spleenwort (n.) Any fern of the genus Asplenium, some species of which were anciently used as remedies for disorders of the spleen.
Spleeny (a.) Irritable; peevish; fretful.
Spleeny (a.) Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy.
Spleget (n.) A cloth dipped in a liquid for washing a sore.
Splenalgia (n.) Pain over the region of the spleen.
Splenculi (pl. ) of Splenculus
Splenculus (n.) A lienculus.
Splendent (a.) Shining; glossy; beaming with light; lustrous; as, splendent planets; splendent metals. See the Note under 3d Luster, 4.