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Spiritfully
SPIRITFULLY, adverb In a lively manner. [Not used.]
Spiritfulness
SPIRITFULNESS, noun Liveliness; sprightliness. [Not used.]
Spiritless
SPIRITLESS, adjective
1. Destitute of spirits; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.
2. Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage or fire; as a spiritless slave.
A man so faint, so spiritless so dull, so dead in look--
3. Having no breath; extinct; dead.
Spiritlessly
SPIRITLESSLY, adverb Without spirit; without exertion.
Spiritlessness
SPIRITLESSNESS, noun Dullness; want of life or vigor.
Spiritous
SPIRITOUS, adjective
1. Like spirit; refined; defecated; pure.
More refind, more spiritous and pure.
2. Fine ardent; active.
Spiritousness
SPIRITOUSNESS, noun A refined state; fineness and activity of parts; as the thinness and spiritousness of liquor.
Spiritual
SPIRITUAL, adjective
1. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as a spiritual substance or being. The soul of man is spiritual
2. Mental; intellectual; as spiritual armor.
3. Not gross; refined from external things; not sensual; relative to mind only; as a spiritual and refined religion.
4. Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as the spiritual functions of the clergy; the lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation.
5. Pertaining to spirit or to the affections; pure; holy.
Gods law is spiritual; it is a transcript of the divine nature, and extends its authority to the acts of the soul of man.
6. Pertaining to the renewed nature of man; as spiritual life.
7. Not fleshly; not material; as spiritual sacrifices. .
8. Pertaining to divine things; as spiritual songs. .
SPIRITUAL court, an ecclesiastical court; a court held by a bishop or other ecclesiastic.
Spirituality
SPIRITUALITY, noun
1. Essence distinct from matter; immateriality.
If this light be not spiritual, it approacheth nearest to spirituality
2. Intellectual nature; as the spirituality of the soul.
3. Spiritual nature; the quality which respects the spirit or affections of the heart only, and the essence of true religion; as the spirituality of Gods law.
4. Spiritual exercises and holy affections.
Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depend on the state of mind in which we come.
5. That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion; as distinct from temporalities.
During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof.
6. An ecclesiastical body. [Not in use.]
Spiritualization
SPIRITUALIZATION, noun The act of spiritualizing. In chemistry, the operation of extracting spirit from natural bodies.
Spiritualize
SPIRITUALIZE, verb intransitive
1. To refine the intellect; to purify from the feculences of the world; as, to spiritualize the soul.
2. In chemistry, to extract spirit from natural bodies.
3. To convert to a spiritual meaning.
Spiritually
SPIRITUALLY, adverb Without corporeal grossness or sensuality; in a manner conformed to the spirit of true religion; with purity of spirit or heart.
SPIRITUALLY minded, under the influence of the Holy Spirit or of holy principles; having the affections refined and elevated above sensual objects, and placed on God and his law. .
SPIRITUALLY discerned, known, not by carnal reason, but by the peculiar illumination of the Holy Spirit. .
Spirituous
SPIRITUOUS, adjective
1. Containing spirit; consisting of refined spirit; ardent; as spirituous liquors. [This might well be written spiritous.]
2. Having the quality of spirit; fine; pure; active; as the spirituous part of a plant.
3. Lively; gay; vivid; airy. [Not in use.]
Spirituousness
SPIRITUOUSNESS, noun
1. The quality of being spirituous; ardor; heat; stimulating quality; as the spirituousness of liquors.
2. Life; tenuity; activity.
Spirt
SPIRT. [See Spurt, the more correct orthography.]
Spiry
SPIRY, adjective
1. Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; as the spiry volumes of a serpent.
2. Having the form of a pyramid; pyramidical; as spiry turrets.
Spiss
SPISS, adjective [Latin] Thick; close; dense. [Not in use.]
Spissitude
SPISSITUDE, noun [supra.] Thickness of soft substances; the denseness or compactness which belongs to substances not perfectly liquid nor perfectly solid; as the spissitude of coagulated blood or of any coagulum.
Spit
SPIT, noun [G.]
1. An iron prong or bar pointed, on which meat is roasted.
2. Such depth of earth as is pierced by the spade at once. [D. spit a spade.]
3. A small point of land running into the sea, or a long narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as a spit of sand.
SPIT, verb transitive [from the noun.]
1. To thrust a spit through; to put upon a spit; as, to spit a loin of veal.
2. To thrust through; to pierce.
SPIT, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive spit Spat is obsolete. [G. The sense is to throw or drive.]
1. To eject from the mouth; to thrust out, as saliva or other matter from the mouth.
2. To eject or throw out with violence.
SPIT, verb intransitive To throw out saliva from the mouth. It is a dirty trick to spit on the floor or carpet.
SPIT, noun What is ejected from the mouth; saliva.
Spital
SPITAL, SPITTEL, noun Corrupted from hospital. Rob not the spital or charitable foundation. [Vulgar and not in use.]
Spitchcock
SPITCHCOCK, verb transitive To split an eel lengthwise and broil it.
SPITCHCOCK, noun An eel split and broiled.
Spite
SPITE, noun [Latin] Hatred; rancor; malice; malignity; malevolence.
SPITE, however, is not always synonymous with these words. It often denotes a less deliberate and fixed hatred than malice and malignity, and is often a sudden fit of ill will excited by temporary vexation. It is the effect of extreme irritation, and is accompanied with a desire of revenge, or at least a desire to vex the object of ill will.
Be gone, ye critics, and restrain your spite; Codrus writes on, and will for ever write.
In spite of, in opposition to all efforts; in defiance or contempt of. Sometimes spite of is used without in, but not elegantly. It is often used without expressing any malignity of meaning.
Whom God made use of to speak a word in season, and saved me in spite of the world, the devil and myself.
In spite of all applications, the patient grew worse every day.
To owe one a spite to entertain a temporary hatred for something.
SPITE, verb transitive
1. To be angry or vexed at.
2. To mischief; to vex; to treat maliciously; to thwart.
3. To fill with spite or vexation; to offend; to vex.
Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavored to abolish not only their learning but their language. [Not used.]
Spited
SPITED, participle passive Hated; vexed.
Spiteful
SPITEFUL, adjective Filled with spite; having a desire to vex, annoy or injure; malignant; malicious.
--A wayward son, spiteful and wrathful.
Spitefully
SPITEFULLY, adverb With a desire to vex, annoy or injure; malignantly; maliciously.
Spitefulness
SPITEFULNESS, noun The desire to vex, annoy or mischief, proceeding from irritation; malice; malignity.
It looks more like spitefulness and ill nature, than a diligent search after truth.
Spitted
SPITTED, participle passive [from spit.]
1. Put upon a spit.
2. Shot out into length.
Spittel
SPITAL, SPITTEL noun Corrupted from hospital. Rob not the spital, or charitable foundation. [Vulgar and not in use.]
Spitter
SPITTER, noun
1. One that puts meat on a spit.
2. One who ejects saliva from his mouth.
3. A young deer whose horns begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket or pricket.
Spitting
SPITTING, participle present tense
1. Putting on a spit.
2. Ejecting saliva from the mouth.
Spittle
SPITTLE, noun [from spit.]
1. Saliva; the thick moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands and ejected from the mouth.
2. A small sort of spade. [spaddle.]
SPITTLE. [See Spital.]
SPITTLE, verb transitive To dig or stir with a small spade. [Local.]
Spitvenom
SPITVENOM, noun [spit and venom.] Poison ejected from the mouth.
Splanchnology
SPLANCHNOLOGY, noun [Gr., bowels, discourse.]
1. The doctrine of the viscera; or a treatise or description of the viscera.
2. The doctrine of diseases of the internal parts of the body.
Splash
SPLASH, verb transitive [formed on plash.] To spatter with water, or with water and mud.
SPLASH, verb intransitive To strike and dash about water.
SPLASH, noun Water or water and dirt thrown upon any thing, or thrown from a puddle and the like.
Splashy
SPLASHY, adjective Full of dirty water; wet; wet and muddy.
Splay
SPLAY, verb transitive [See Display.]
1. To dislocate or break a horses shoulder bone.
2. To spread. [Little used.]
SPLAY, for display. [Not in use.]
SPLAY, adjective Displayed; spread; turned outward.
Splayfoot
SPLAYFOOT, SPLAYFOOTED, adjective Having the foot turned outward; having a wide foot.
Splayfooted
SPLAYFOOT, SPLAYFOOTED adjective Having the foot turned outward; having a wide foot.
Splaymouth
SPLAYMOUTH, noun A wide mouth; a mouth stretched by design.
Spleen
SPLEEN, noun [Latin , Gr.]
1. The milt; a soft part of the viscera of animals, whose use is not well understood. The ancients supposed this to be the seat of melancholy, anger or vexation. Hence,
2. Anger; latent spite; ill humor. Thus we say, to vent ones spleen
In noble minds some dregs remain, Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain.
3. A fit of anger.
4. A fit; a sudden motion. [Not used.]
5. Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
--Bodies changd to recent forms by spleen
6. Immoderate merriment. [Not in use.]
Spleened
SPLEENED, adjective Deprived of the spleen.
Spleenful
SPLEENFUL, adjective
1. Angry; peevish; fretful.
Myself have calmd their spleenful mutiny.
2. Melancholy; hypochondriacal.
Spleenless
SPLEENLESS, adjective Kind; gentle; mild.
Spleenwort
SPLEENWORT, noun [Latin] A plant of the genus Asplenium; miltwaste.
Spleeny
SPLEENY, adjective
1. Angry; peevish; fretful.
A spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to our cause.
2. Melancholy; affected with nervous complaints.
Splendent
SPLENDENT, adjective [Latin , to shine.]
1. Shining; glossy; beaming with light; as splendent planets; splendent metals.
2. Very conspicuous; illustrious.
Splendid
SPLENDID, adjective [Latin , to shine. See Plain.]
1. Properly, shining; very bright; as a splendid sun. Hence,
2. Showy; magnificent; sumptuous; pompous; as a splendid palace; a splendid procession; a splendid equipage; a splendid feast or entertainment.
3. Illustrious; heroic; brilliant; as a splendid victory.
4. Illustrious; famous; celebrated; as a splendid reputation.
Splendidly
SPLENDIDLY, adverb
1. With great brightness or brilliant light.
2. Magnificently; sumptuously; richly; as a house splendidly furnished.
3. With great pomp or show. The king was splendidly attended.
Splendor
SPLENDOR, noun [Latin See Plant and Planet.]
1. Great brightness; brilliant luster; as the splendor of the sun.
2. Great show of richness and elegance; magnificence; as the splendor of equipage or of royal robes.
3. Pomp; parade; as the splendor of a procession or of ceremonies.
4. Brilliance; eminence; as the splendor of a victory.
Splendrous
SPLENDROUS, adjective Having splendor. [Not in use.]
Splenetic
SPLENETIC, adjective [Latin] Affected with spleen; peevish; fretful.
You humor me when I am sick; Why not when I am splenetic
SPLENETIC, noun A person affected with spleen.
Splenic
SPLENIC, adjective Belonging to the spleen; as the splenic vein.
Splenish
SPLENISH, adjective Affected with spleen; peevish; fretful.
Splenitive
SPLENITIVE, adjective Hot; fiery; passionate; irritable. [Not in use.]
I am not splenitive and rash.
Splent
SPLENT, noun
1. A callous substance or insensible swelling on the shank-bone of a horse.
2. A splint. [See Splint.]
Splice
SPLICE, SPLISE, verb transitive [G.] To separate the strands of the two ends of a rope, and unite them by a particular manner of interweaving them; or to unite the end of a rope to any part of another by a like interweaving of the strands. There are different modes of splicing, as the short splice long splice eye splice etc.
Splint
SPLINT, SPLINTER, noun [G.]
1. A piece of wood split off; a thin piece (in proportion to its thickness, ) of wood or other solid substance, rent from the main body; as splinters of a ships side or mast, rent off by a shot.
2. In surgery, a thin piece of wood or other substance, used to hold or confine a broken bone when set.
3. A piece of bone rent off in a fracture.
SPLINT, SPLINTER, verb transitive
1. To split or rend into long thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
2. To confine with splinters, as a broken limb.
Splinter
SPLINTER, verb intransitive To be split or rent into long pieces.
Splintered
SPLINTERED, participle passive Split into splinters; secured by splints.
Splintery
SPLINTERY, adjective Consisting of splinters, or resembling splinters; as the splintery fracture of a mineral, which discovers scales arising from splits or fissures, parallel to the line of fracture.
Splise
SPLICE, SPLISE verb transitive [G.] To separate the strands of the two ends of a rope, and unite them by a particular manner of interweaving them; or to unite the end of a rope to any part of another by a like interweaving of the strands. There are different modes of splicing, as the short splice, long splice, eye splice, etc.
SPLICE, noun The union of ropes by interweaving the strands.
Split
SPLIT, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive split [G. See Spalt.]
1. To divide longitudinally or lengthwise; to separate a thing from end to end by force; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber; to split a board. It differs from crack. To crack is to open or partially separate; to split is to separate entirely.
2. To rend; to tear asunder by violence; to burst; as, to split a rock or a sail.
Cold winter splits the rocks in twain.
3. To divide; to part; as, to split a hair. The phrases to split the heart, to split a ray of light, are now inelegant and obsolete, especially the former. The phrase, to split the earth, is not strictly correct.
4. To dash and break on a rock; as, a ship stranded and split
5. To divide; to break into discord; as a people split into parties.
6. To strain and pain with laughter; as, to split the sides.
SPLIT, verb intransitive
1. To burst; to part asunder; to suffer disruption; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them. Glass vessels often split when heated too suddenly.
2. To burst with laughter.
Each had a gravity would make you split
3. To be broken; to be dashed to pieces. We were driven upon a rock, and the ship immediately split
To split on a rock, to fail; to err fatally; to have the hopes and designs frustrated.
Splitter
SPLITTER, noun One who splits.
Splitting
SPLITTING, participle present tense Bursting; riving; rending.
Splutter
SPLUTTER, noun A bustle; a stir. [A low word and little used.]
SPLUTTER, verb intransitive To speak hastily and confusedly. [Low.]
Spodumene
SPODUMENE, noun [Gr., to reduce to ashes.] A mineral, called by Hauy triphane. It occurs in laminated masses, easily divisible into prisms with rhomboidal bases; the lateral faces smooth, shining and pearly; the cross fracture uneven and splintery. Before the blowpipe it exfoliates into little yellowish or grayish scales; whence its name.
Spoil
SPOIL, verb transitive [Latin , to pull asunder, to tear, to strip, to peel.]
1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to rob; with of; as, to spoil one of his goods or possessions.
My sons their old unhappy sire despise, Spoild of his kingdom, and deprivd of eyes.
2. To seize by violence; to take by force; as, to spoil ones goods.
This mount with all his verdure spoild--
3. To corrupt; to cause to decay and perish. Heat and moisture will soon spoil vegetable and animal substances.
4. To corrupt; to vitiate; to mar.
Spiritual pride spoils many graces.
5. To ruin; to destroy. Our crops are sometimes spoiled by insects.
6. To render useless by injury; as, to spoil paper by wetting it.
7. To injure fatally; as, to spoil the eyes by reading.
SPOIL, verb intransitive
1. To practice plunder or robbery.
--Outlaws which, lurking in woods, used to break forth to rob and spoil
2. To decay; to lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather. Grain will spoil if gathered when wet or moist.
SPOIL, noun [Latin]
1. That which is taken from others by violence; particularly in war, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
2. That which is gained by strength or effort.
Each science and each art his spoil
3. That which is taken from another without license.
Gentle gales fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole their balmy spoils.
4. The act or practice of plundering; robbery; waste.
The man that hath not music in himself, nor is not movd with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treason, stratagems and spoils.
5. Corruption; cause of corruption.
Villainous company hath been the spoil of me.
6. The slough or cast skin of a serpent or other animal.
Spoiled
SPOILED, participle passive Plundered; pillaged; corrupted; rendered useless.
Spoiler
SPOILER, noun
1. A plunderer; a pillager; a robber.
2. One that corrupts, mars or renders useless.
Spoilful
SPOILFUL, adjective Wasteful; rapacious. [Little used.]
Spoiling
SPOILING, participle present tense
1. Plundering; pillaging; corrupting; rendering useless.
2. Wasting; decaying.
SPOILING, noun Plunder; waste.
Spoke
SPOKE, preterit tense of speak.
SPOKE, noun [G., this word, whose radical sense is to shoot or thrust, coincides with spike, spigot, pike, contracted from to spew.]
1. The radius or ray of a wheel; one of the small bars which are inserted in the hub or nave, and which serve to support the rim or felly.
2. The spar or round of a ladder. [Not in use in the United States.]
Spoke-Shave
SPOKE-SHAVE, noun A kind of plane to smooth the shells of blocks.
Spoken
SPOKEN, participle passive of speak. pronoun spokn.
Spokesman
SPOKESMAN, noun [speak, spoke, and man.[ One who speaks for another.
He shall be thy spokesman to the people. .
Spoliate
SPOLIATE, verb transitive [Latin] To plunder; to pillage.
SPOLIATE, verb intransitive To practice plunder; to commit robbery. In time of war, rapacious men are let loose to spoliate on commerce.
Spoliation
SPOLIATION, noun
1. The act of plundering, particularly of plundering an enemy in time of war.
2. The act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea under authority.
3. In ecclesiastical affairs, the act of an incumbent in taking the fruits of his benefice without right, but under a pretended title.
Spondaic
SPONDAIC, SPONDAICAL, adjective [See Spondee.] Pertaining to a spondee; denoting two long feet in poetry.
Spondaical
SPONDAIC, SPONDAICAL adjective [See Spondee.] Pertaining to a spondee; denoting two long feet in poetry.
Spondee
SPONDEE, noun [Latin] A poetic foot of two long syllables.
Spondyl
SPONDYL, SPONDYLE, noun [Latin , Gr.] A joint of the back bone; a verteber or vertebra.
Spondyle
SPONDYL, SPONDYLE noun [Latin , Gr.] A joint of the back bone; a verteber or vertebra.
Sponge
SPONGE. [See Spunge.]
Sponk
SPONK, noun [a word probably formed on punk.] Touchwood. In Scotland, a match; something dipped in sulphur for readily taking fire. [See Spunk.]
Sponsal
SPONSAL, adjective [Latin , to betroth.] Relating to marriage or to a spouse.
Sponsion
SPONSION, noun [Latin , to engage.] The act of becoming surety for another.
Sponsor
SPONSOR, noun [Latin] A surety; one who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default. In the church, the sponsors in baptism are sureties for the education of the child baptized.
Spontaneity
SPONTANEITY, noun [Latin , of free will.] Voluntariness; the quality of being of free will or accord.
Spontaneous
SPONTANEOUS, adjective [Latin , of free will.]
1. Voluntary; acting by its own impulse or will without the incitement of any thing external; acting of its own accord; as spontaneous motion.
2. Produced without being planted, or without human labor; as a spontaneous growth of wood.
SPONTANEOUS combustion, a taking fire of itself. Thus oiled canvas, oiled wool, and many other combustible substances, when suffered to remain for some time in a confined state, suddenly take fire, or undergo spontaneous combustion.
Spontaneously
SPONTANEOUSLY, adverb
1. Voluntarily; of his own will or accord; used of animals; as, he acts spontaneously
2. By its own force or energy; without the impulse of a foreign cause; used of things.
Whey turns spontaneously acid.
Spontaneousness
SPONTANEOUSNESS, noun
1. Voluntariness; freedom of will; accord unconstrained; applied to animals.
2. Freedom of acting without a foreign cause; applied to things.
Spontoon
SPONTOON, noun A kind of half pike; a military weapon borne by officers of infantry.
Spool
SPOOL, noun [G.] A piece of cane or reed, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end; used by weavers to wind their yarn upon in order to slaie it and wind in on the beam. The spool is larger than the quill, on which yarn is wound for the shuttle. But in manufactories, the word may be differently applied.
SPOOL, verb transitive To wind on spools.
Spoom
SPOOM, verb intransitive To be driven swiftly; probably a mistake for spoon. [See Spoon, the verb.]
Spoon
SPOON, noun
1. A small domestic utensil, with a bowl or concave part and a handle, for dipping liquids; as a tea spoon; a table spoon
2. An instrument consisting of a bowl or hollow iron and a long handle, used for taking earth out of holes dug for setting posts.
SPOON, verb intransitive To put before the wind in a gale. [I believe not now used.]
Spoon-Bill
SPOON-BILL, noun [spoon and bill.] A fowl of the grallic order, and genus Platatea, so named from the shape of its bill, which is somewhat like a spoon or spatula. Its plumage is white beautiful.
Spoon-Drift
SPOON-DRIFT, noun In seamens language, a showery sprinkling of sea water, swept from the surface in a tempest.
Spoon-Meat
SPOON-MEAT, noun [spoon and meat.] Food that is or must be taken with a spoon; liquid food.
Diet most upon spoon-meats.
Spoon-Wort
SPOON-WORT, noun A plant of the genus Cochlearia; scurvy grass.
Spoonful
SPOONFUL, noun [spoon and full.]
1. As much as a spoon contains or is able to contain; as a tea spoonful; a table spoonful
2. A small quantity of a liquid.
Sporadic
SPORADIC, SPORADICAL, adjective [Gr., separate, scattered; whence certain isles of Greece were called Sporades.] Separate; single; scattered; used only in reference to diseases. A sporadic disease, is one which occurs in particular persons and places, in distinction from an epidemic, which affects persons generally or in great numbers.
Sporadical
SPORADIC, SPORADICAL adjective [Gr., separate, scattered; whence certain isles of Greece were called Sporades.] Separate; single; scattered; used only in reference to diseases. A sporadic disease, is one which occurs in particular persons and places, in distinction from an epidemic, which affects persons generally or in great numbers.
Sporadic diseases are opposed to epidemics, as accidental, scattered complaints, neither general nor contagious.
Sport
SPORT, noun
1. That which diverts and makes merry; play; game; diversion; also, mirth. The word signifies both the cause and the effect; that which produces mirth, and the mirth or merriment produced.
Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight.
Here the word denotes the cause of amusement.
They called Samson out of the prison-house; and he made them sport .
Here sport is the effect.
2. Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth.
Then make sport at me, then let me be your jest.
They made a sport of his prophets.
3. That with which one plays, or which is driven about.
To flitting leaves, the sport of every wind.
Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.
4. Play; idle jingle.
An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage, would meet with small applause.
5. Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing.
In sport To do a thing in sport is to do it in jest, for play or diversion.
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, am not I in sport? .
SPORT, verb transitive
1. To divert; to make merry; used with the reciprocal pronoun.
Against whom do ye sport yourselves? .
2. To represent by any kind of play.
Now sporting on thy lyre the love of youth.
SPORT, verb intransitive
1. To play; to frolick; to wanton.
See the brisk lambs that sport along the mead.
2. To trifle. The man that laughs at religion sports with his own salvation.
Sporter
SPORTER, noun One who sports.
Sportful
SPORTFUL, adjective
1. Merry; frolicksome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; as a sportful companion.
Down he alights among the sportful herd.
2. Ludicrous; done in jest or for mere play.
These are no sportful productions of the soil.
Sportfully
SPORTFULLY, adverb In mirth; in jest; for the sake of diversion; playfully.
Sportfulness
SPORTFULNESS, noun Play; merriment; frolick; a playful disposition; playfulness; as the sportfulness of kids and lambs.
Sportive
SPORTIVE, adjective
1. Gay; merry; wanton; frolicksome.
Is it I that drive thee from the sportive court?
2. Inclined to mirth; playful; as a sportive humor.
Sportiveness
SPORTIVENESS, noun
1. Playfulness; mirth; merriment.
2. Disposition to mirth.
Sportless
SPORTLESS, adjective Without sport or mirth; joyless.
Sportsman
SPORTSMAN, noun [sport and man.]
1. One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes and fowls.
2. One skilled in the sports of the field.
Sportulary
SPORTULARY, adjective [Latin , a basket, an alms-basket.] Subsisting on alms or charitable contributions. [Little used.]
Sportule
SPORTULE, noun [Latin , a little basket.] An alms; a dole; a charitable gift or contribution. [Not in use.]
Spot
SPOT, noun [We see this word is of the family of spatter, and that the radical sense is to throw or thrust. A spot is made by spattering or sprinkling.
1. A mark on a substance made by foreign matter; a speck; a blot; a place discolored. The least spot is visible on white paper.
2. A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
Yet Chloe sure was formd without a spot
See , .
3. A small extent of space; a place; any particular place.
The spot to which I point is paradise.
Fixd to one spot
So we say, a spot of ground, a spot of grass or flowers; meaning a place of small extent.
4. A place of a different color from the ground; as the spots of a leopard.
5. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.
6. A dark place on the disk or face of the sun or of a planet.
7. A lucid place in the heavens.
Upon the spot immediately; before moving; without changing place. [So the French say, sur le champ.]
It was determined upon the spot
SPOT, verb transitive
1. To make a visible mark with some foreign matter; to discolor; to stain; as, to spot a garment; to spot paper.
2. To patch by way of ornament.
3. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish; as reputation.
My virgin life no spotted thoughts shall stain.
To stop timber, is to cut or chip it, in preparation for hewing.
Spotless
SPOTLESS, adjective
1. Free from spots, foul matter or discoloration.
2. Free from reproach or impurity; pure; untainted; innocent; as a spotless mind; spotless behavior.
A spotless virgin and a faultless wife.
Spotlessness
SPOTLESSNESS, noun Freedom from spot or stain; freedom from reproach.
Spotted
SPOTTED, participle passive Marked with spots or places of a different color from the ground; as a spotted beast or garment.
Spottedness
SPOTTEDNESS, noun The state or quality of being spotted.
Spotter
SPOTTER, noun One that makes spots.
Spottiness
SPOTTINESS, noun The state or quality of being spotty.
Spotting
SPOTTING, participle present tense Marking with spots; staining.
Spotty
SPOTTY, adjective Full of spots; marked with discolored places.
Spousage
SPOUSAGE, noun [See Spouse.[ The act of espousing. [Not used.]
Spousal
SPOUSAL, adjective [from spouse.] Pertaining to marriage; nuptial; matrimonial; conjugal; connubial; bridal; as spousal rites; spousal ornaments.
SPOUSAL, noun [Latin See Spouse.] Marriage; nuptials. It is now generally used in the plural; as the spousals of Hippolita.
Spouse
SPOUSE, noun [Latin , to engage.] One engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife. We say of a man, that he is the spouse of such a woman; or of a woman, she is the spouse of such a man.
SPOUSE, verb transitive To wed; to espouse. [Little used. See Espouse.]
Spoused
SPOUSED, participle passive Wedded; joined in marriage; married; but seldom used. The word used in lieu of it is espoused.
Spouseless
SPOUSELESS, adjective Destitute of a husband or of a wife; as a spouseless king or queen.
Spout
SPOUT, noun [G., to spit, and spotten is to mock, banter, sport. These are of one family; spout retaining nearly the primary and literal meaning. See Bud and Pout.]
1. A pipe, or a projecting mouth of a vessel, useful in directing the stream of a liquid poured out; as the spout of a pitcher, of a tea pot or water pot.
2. A pipe conducting water from another pipe, or from a trough on a house.
3. A violent discharge of water raised in a column at sea, like a whirlwind, or by a whirlwind. [See Water-spout.]
SPOUT, verb transitive
1. To throw out, as liquids through a narrow orifice or pipe; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.
Next on his belly floats the mighty whale--He spouts the tide.
2. To throw out words with affected gravity; to mouth.
SPOUT, verb intransitive To issue with violence, as a liquid through a narrow orifice or from a spout; as, water spouts from a cask or a spring; blood spouts from a vein.
All the glittering hill is bright with spouting rills.
Spouted
SPOUTED, participle passive Thrown in a stream from a pipe or narrow orifice.
Spouting
SPOUTING, participle present tense Throwing in a stream from a pipe or narrow opening; pouring out words violently or affectedly.
SPOUTING, noun The act of throwing out, as a liquid from a narrow opening; a violent or affected speech; a harangue.
Sprag
SPRAG, adjective Vigorous; sprightly. [Local.] [Note. In America, this word is, in popular language, pronounced spry, which is a contraction of spright, in sprightly.]
SPRAG, noun A young salmon. [Local.]
Sprain
SPRAIN, verb transitive To overstrain the ligaments of a joint; to stretch the ligaments so as to injure them, but without luxation or dislocation.
SPRAIN, noun An excessive strain of the ligaments of a joint without dislocation.
Sprained
SPRAINED, participle passive Injured by excessive straining.
Spraining
SPRAINING, participle present tense Injuring by excessive extension.
Spraints
SPRAINTS, noun The dung of an otter.
Sprang
SPRANG, preterit tense of spring; but sprung is more generally used.
Sprat
SPRAT, noun A small fish of the species Clupea.
Sprawl
SPRAWL, verb intransitive [The origin and affinities of this word are uncertain. It may be a contracted word.]
1. To spread and stretch the body carelessly in a horizontal position; to lie with the limbs stretched out or struggling. We say, a person lies sprawling; or he sprawls on the be or on the ground.
2. To move, when lying down, with awkward extension and motions of the limbs; to scrabble or scramble in creeping.
The birds were not fledged; but in sprawling and struggling to get clear of the flame, down they tumbled.
3. To widen or open irregularly, as a body of horse.
Sprawling
SPRAWLING, participle present tense
1. Lying with the limbs awkwardly stretched; creeping with awkward motions; struggling with contorsion of the limbs.
2. Widening or opening irregularly, as cavalry.
Spray
SPRAY, noun [probably allied to sprig. The radical sense is a shoot.]
1. A small shoot or branch; or the extremity of a branch. Hence in England, spray faggots are bundles of small branches, used as fuel.
2. Among seamen, the water that is driven from the top of a wave in a storm, which spreads and flies in small particles. It differs from spoon-drift; as spray is only occasional, whereas spoon-drift flies continually along the surface of the sea.
Spread
SPREAD, SPRED, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive spread or spred. [G., to spread The more correct orthography is spred.
Spreader
SPREADER, SPREDDER, n. 1. One that spreads, extends, expands or propagates; as a spreader of disease.2. One that divulges one that causes to be more generally know; a publisher; as a spreader of news or reports.
Spreading
SPREADING, SPREDDING, participle present tense
Spred
SPREAD, SPRED verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive spread or SPRED [G., to spread. The more correct orthography is SPRED
1. To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broader surface; as, to spread a carpet or a table cloth; to spread a sheet on the ground.
2. To extend; to form into a plate; as, to spread silver. .
3. To set; to place; to pitch; as, to spread a tent. .
4. To cover by extending something; to reach every part.
And an unusual paleness spreads her face.
5. To extend; to shoot to a greater length in every direction, so as to fill or cover a wider space.
The stately trees fast spread their branches.
6. To divulge; to propagate; to publish; as news or fame; to cause to be more extensively know; as, to spread a report.
In this use the word is sometimes accompanied with abroad.
They, when they had departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country. .
7. To propagate; to cause to affect greater numbers; as, to spread a disease.
8. To emit; to diffuse; as emanations or effluvia; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance.
9. To disperse; to scatter over a larger surface; as, to spread manure; to spread plaster or lime on the ground.
10. To prepare; to set and furnish with provision; as, to spread a table. God spread a table for the Israelites in the wilderness.
11. To open; to unfold; to unfurl; to stretch; as, to spread the sails of a ship.
SPREAD, SPRED, verb intransitive
1. To extend itself in length and breadth, in all directions, or in breadth only; to be extended or stretched. The larger elms spread over a space of forty or fifty yards in diameter; or the shade of the larger elms spreads over that space. The larger lakes in America spread over more than fifteen hundred square miles.
Plants, if they spread much, are seldom tall.
2. To be extended by drawing or beating; as, a metal spreads with difficulty.
3. To be propagated or made known more extensively. Ill reports sometimes spread with wonderful rapidity.
4. To be propagated from one to another; as, a disease spreads into all parts of a city. The yellow fever of American cities has not been found to spread in the country.
SPREAD, SPRED, noun
1. Extent; compass.
I have a fine spread of improvable land.
2. Expansion of parts.
No flower has that spread of the woodbind.
Spredder
SPREADER, SPREDDER noun
1. One that spreads, extends, expands or propagates; as a spreader of disease.
2. One that divulges one that causes to be more generally know; a publisher; as a spreader of news or reports.
Spredding
SPREADING, SPREDDING participle present tense
1. Extending; expanding; propagating; divulging; dispersing; diffusing.
2. adjective Extending or extended over a large space; wide; as the spreading oak.
Gov. Winthrop and his associates at Charleston had for a church a large spreading tree.
SPREADING, SPREDDING, noun The act of extending, dispersing or propagating.
Sprent
SPRENT, participle passive Sprinkled. [See Sprinkle.]
Sprig
SPRIG, noun
1. A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as a sprig of laurel or of parsely.
2. A brad, or nail without a head. [Local.]
3. The representation of a small branch in embroidery.
4. A small eye-bolt ragged at the point.
SPRIG, verb transitive To mark or adorn with the representation of small branches; to work with sprigs; as, to sprig muslin.
Sprig-Crystal
SPRIG-CRYSTAL, noun Crystal found in the form of a hexangular column, adhering to the stone, and terminating at the other end in a point.
Sprigged
SPRIGGED, participle passive Wrought with representations of small twigs.
Sprigging
SPRIGGING, participle present tense Working with sprigs.
Spriggy
SPRIGGY, adjective Full of sprigs or small branches.
Spright
SPRIGHT, SPRITE, noun [G., spirit. It should be written sprite.]
1. A spirit; a shade; a soul; an incorporeal agent.
Forth he calld, out of deep darkness dread, legions of sprights.
And gaping graves receivd the guilty spright
2. A walking spirit; an apparition.
3. Power which gives cheerfulness or courage.
Hold thou my heart, establish thou mu sprights. [Not in use.]
4. An arrow. [Not in use.]
SPRIGHT, verb transitive To haunt, as a spright [ Not used.]
Sprightful
SPRIGHTFUL, adjective [This word seems to be formed from the root of sprag, a local word, pronounced in America spry. It belongs to the family of spring and sprig.] Lively; brisk; nimble; vigorous; gay.
Spoke like a sprightful noble gentleman.
Steeds sprightful as the light.
[This word is little used in America. We use sprightly in the same sense.]
Sprightfullly
SPRIGHTFULLLY, adv. Briskly; vigorously.
Sprightfulness
SPRIGHTFULNESS, noun Briskness; liveliness; vivacity.
Sprightless
SPRIGHTLESS, adjective Destitute of life; dull; sluggish; as virtues sprightless cold.
Sprightliness
SPRIGHTLINESS, noun [from sprightly.] Liveliness; life; briskness; vigor; activity; gayety; vivacity.
In dreams, with what sprightliness and alacrity does the soul exert herself.
Sprightly
SPRIGHTLY, adjective Lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance.
The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green.
And sprightly wit and love inspires.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.