1. An iron prong or bar pointed, on which meat is roasted. NWAD SPIT.2
2. Such depth of earth as is pierced by the spade at once. [D. spit, a spade.] NWAD SPIT.3
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. NWAD SPIT.4
1. To thrust a spit through; to put upon a spit; as, to spit a loin of veal. NWAD SPIT.6
2. To thrust through; to pierce. NWAD SPIT.7
1. To eject from the mouth; to thrust out, as saliva or other matter from the mouth. NWAD SPIT.9
2. To eject or throw out with violence. NWAD SPIT.10
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. NWAD SPITE.2
Be gone, ye critics, and restrain your spite; Codrus writes on, and will for ever write. NWAD SPITE.3
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. NWAD SPITE.4
Whom God made use of to speak a word in season, and saved me in spite of the world, the devil and myself. NWAD SPITE.5
In spite of all applications, the patient grew worse every day. NWAD SPITE.6
To owe one a spite, to entertain a temporary hatred for something. NWAD SPITE.7
1. To be angry or vexed at. NWAD SPITE.9
2. To mischief; to vex; to treat maliciously; to thwart. NWAD SPITE.10
3. To fill with spite or vexation; to offend; to vex. NWAD SPITE.11
Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavored to abolish not only their learning but their language. [Not used.] NWAD SPITE.12
--A wayward son, spiteful and wrathful. NWAD SPITEFUL.2
It looks more like spitefulness and ill nature, than a diligent search after truth. NWAD SPITEFULNESS.2
1. Put upon a spit. NWAD SPITTED.2
2. Shot out into length. NWAD SPITTED.3
1. One that puts meat on a spit. NWAD SPITTER.2
2. One who ejects saliva from his mouth. NWAD SPITTER.3
3. A young deer whose horns begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket or pricket. NWAD SPITTER.4
1. Putting on a spit. NWAD SPITTING.2
2. Ejecting saliva from the mouth. NWAD SPITTING.3
1. Saliva; the thick moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands and ejected from the mouth. NWAD SPITTLE.2
2. A small sort of spade. [spaddle.] NWAD SPITTLE.3
1. The doctrine of the viscera; or a treatise or description of the viscera. NWAD SPLANCHNOLOGY.2
2. The doctrine of diseases of the internal parts of the body. NWAD SPLANCHNOLOGY.3
1. To dislocate or break a horses shoulder bone. NWAD SPLAY.2
2. To spread. [Little used.] NWAD SPLAY.3
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, NWAD SPLEEN.2
2. Anger; latent spite; ill humor. Thus we say, to vent ones spleen. NWAD SPLEEN.3
In noble minds some dregs remain, Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain. NWAD SPLEEN.4
3. A fit of anger. NWAD SPLEEN.5
4. A fit; a sudden motion. [Not used.] NWAD SPLEEN.6
5. Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections. NWAD SPLEEN.7
--Bodies changd to recent forms by spleen. NWAD SPLEEN.8
6. Immoderate merriment. [Not in use.] NWAD SPLEEN.9
1. Angry; peevish; fretful. NWAD SPLEENFUL.2
Myself have calmd their spleenful mutiny. NWAD SPLEENFUL.3
2. Melancholy; hypochondriacal. NWAD SPLEENFUL.4
1. Angry; peevish; fretful. NWAD SPLEENY.2
A spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to our cause. NWAD SPLEENY.3
2. Melancholy; affected with nervous complaints. NWAD SPLEENY.4
1. Shining; glossy; beaming with light; as splendent planets; splendent metals. NWAD SPLENDENT.2
2. Very conspicuous; illustrious. NWAD SPLENDENT.3
1. Properly, shining; very bright; as a splendid sun. Hence, NWAD SPLENDID.2
2. Showy; magnificent; sumptuous; pompous; as a splendid palace; a splendid procession; a splendid equipage; a splendid feast or entertainment. NWAD SPLENDID.3
3. Illustrious; heroic; brilliant; as a splendid victory. NWAD SPLENDID.4
4. Illustrious; famous; celebrated; as a splendid reputation. NWAD SPLENDID.5
1. With great brightness or brilliant light. NWAD SPLENDIDLY.2
2. Magnificently; sumptuously; richly; as a house splendidly furnished. NWAD SPLENDIDLY.3
3. With great pomp or show. The king was splendidly attended. NWAD SPLENDIDLY.4
1. Great brightness; brilliant luster; as the splendor of the sun. NWAD SPLENDOR.2
2. Great show of richness and elegance; magnificence; as the splendor of equipage or of royal robes. NWAD SPLENDOR.3
3. Pomp; parade; as the splendor of a procession or of ceremonies. NWAD SPLENDOR.4
4. Brilliance; eminence; as the splendor of a victory. NWAD SPLENDOR.5
You humor me when I am sick; Why not when I am splenetic. NWAD SPLENETIC.2
I am not splenitive and rash. NWAD SPLENITIVE.2
1. A callous substance or insensible swelling on the shank-bone of a horse. NWAD SPLENT.2
2. A splint. [See Splint.] NWAD SPLENT.3
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. NWAD SPLINT.2
2. In surgery, a thin piece of wood or other substance, used to hold or confine a broken bone when set. NWAD SPLINT.3
3. A piece of bone rent off in a fracture. NWAD SPLINT.4
1. To split or rend into long thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree. NWAD SPLINT.6
2. To confine with splinters, as a broken limb. NWAD SPLINT.7
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. NWAD SPLIT.2
2. To rend; to tear asunder by violence; to burst; as, to split a rock or a sail. NWAD SPLIT.3
Cold winter splits the rocks in twain. NWAD SPLIT.4
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. NWAD SPLIT.5
4. To dash and break on a rock; as, a ship stranded and split. NWAD SPLIT.6
5. To divide; to break into discord; as a people split into parties. NWAD SPLIT.7
6. To strain and pain with laughter; as, to split the sides. NWAD SPLIT.8
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. NWAD SPLIT.10
2. To burst with laughter. NWAD SPLIT.11
Each had a gravity would make you split. NWAD SPLIT.12
3. To be broken; to be dashed to pieces. We were driven upon a rock, and the ship immediately split. NWAD SPLIT.13
To split on a rock, to fail; to err fatally; to have the hopes and designs frustrated. NWAD SPLIT.14
1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to rob; with of; as, to spoil one of his goods or possessions. NWAD SPOIL.2
My sons their old unhappy sire despise, Spoild of his kingdom, and deprivd of eyes. NWAD SPOIL.3
2. To seize by violence; to take by force; as, to spoil ones goods. NWAD SPOIL.4
This mount with all his verdure spoild-- NWAD SPOIL.5
3. To corrupt; to cause to decay and perish. Heat and moisture will soon spoil vegetable and animal substances. NWAD SPOIL.6
4. To corrupt; to vitiate; to mar. NWAD SPOIL.7
Spiritual pride spoils many graces. NWAD SPOIL.8
5. To ruin; to destroy. Our crops are sometimes spoiled by insects. NWAD SPOIL.9
6. To render useless by injury; as, to spoil paper by wetting it. NWAD SPOIL.10
7. To injure fatally; as, to spoil the eyes by reading. NWAD SPOIL.11
1. To practice plunder or robbery. NWAD SPOIL.13
--Outlaws which, lurking in woods, used to break forth to rob and spoil. NWAD SPOIL.14
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. NWAD SPOIL.15
1. That which is taken from others by violence; particularly in war, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty. NWAD SPOIL.17
2. That which is gained by strength or effort. NWAD SPOIL.18
Each science and each art his spoil. NWAD SPOIL.19
3. That which is taken from another without license. NWAD SPOIL.20
Gentle gales fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole their balmy spoils. NWAD SPOIL.21
4. The act or practice of plundering; robbery; waste. NWAD SPOIL.22
The man that hath not music in himself, nor is not movd with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treason, stratagems and spoils. NWAD SPOIL.23
5. Corruption; cause of corruption. NWAD SPOIL.24
Villainous company hath been the spoil of me. NWAD SPOIL.25
6. The slough or cast skin of a serpent or other animal. NWAD SPOIL.26
1. A plunderer; a pillager; a robber. NWAD SPOILER.2
2. One that corrupts, mars or renders useless. NWAD SPOILER.3
1. Plundering; pillaging; corrupting; rendering useless. NWAD SPOILING.2
2. Wasting; decaying. NWAD SPOILING.3
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. NWAD SPOKE.3
2. The spar or round of a ladder. [Not in use in the United States.] NWAD SPOKE.4
He shall be thy spokesman to the people. Exodus 4:16. NWAD SPOKESMAN.2
1. The act of plundering, particularly of plundering an enemy in time of war. NWAD SPOLIATION.2
2. The act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea under authority. NWAD SPOLIATION.3
3. In ecclesiastical affairs, the act of an incumbent in taking the fruits of his benefice without right, but under a pretended title. NWAD SPOLIATION.4
1. Voluntary; acting by its own impulse or will without the incitement of any thing external; acting of its own accord; as spontaneous motion. NWAD SPONTANEOUS.2
2. Produced without being planted, or without human labor; as a spontaneous growth of wood. NWAD SPONTANEOUS.3
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. NWAD SPONTANEOUS.4
1. Voluntarily; of his own will or accord; used of animals; as, he acts spontaneously. NWAD SPONTANEOUSLY.2
2. By its own force or energy; without the impulse of a foreign cause; used of things. NWAD SPONTANEOUSLY.3
Whey turns spontaneously acid. NWAD SPONTANEOUSLY.4
1. Voluntariness; freedom of will; accord unconstrained; applied to animals. NWAD SPONTANEOUSNESS.2
2. Freedom of acting without a foreign cause; applied to things. NWAD SPONTANEOUSNESS.3
1. A small domestic utensil, with a bowl or concave part and a handle, for dipping liquids; as a tea spoon; a table spoon. NWAD SPOON.2
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. NWAD SPOON.3
1. As much as a spoon contains or is able to contain; as a tea spoonful; a table spoonful. NWAD SPOONFUL.2
2. A small quantity of a liquid. NWAD SPOONFUL.3
Diet most upon spoon-meats. NWAD SPOON-MEAT.2
Sporadic diseases are opposed to epidemics, as accidental, scattered complaints, neither general nor contagious. NWAD SPORADIC.2
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. NWAD SPORT.2
Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight. NWAD SPORT.3
[Here the word denotes the cause of amusement.] NWAD SPORT.4
They called Samson out of the prison-house; and he made them sport. Judges 16:25. NWAD SPORT.5
[Here sport is the effect.] NWAD SPORT.6
2. Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth. NWAD SPORT.7
Then make sport at me, then let me be your jest. NWAD SPORT.8
They made a sport of his prophets. NWAD SPORT.9
3. That with which one plays, or which is driven about. NWAD SPORT.10
To flitting leaves, the sport of every wind. NWAD SPORT.11
Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions. NWAD SPORT.12
4. Play; idle jingle. NWAD SPORT.13
An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage, would meet with small applause. NWAD SPORT.14
5. Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing. NWAD SPORT.15
In sport. To do a thing in sport, is to do it in jest, for play or diversion. NWAD SPORT.16
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, am not I in sport? Proverbs 26:19. NWAD SPORT.17
1. To divert; to make merry; used with the reciprocal pronoun. NWAD SPORT.19
Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Isaiah 57:4. NWAD SPORT.20
2. To represent by any kind of play. NWAD SPORT.21
Now sporting on thy lyre the love of youth. NWAD SPORT.22
1. To play; to frolick; to wanton. NWAD SPORT.24
See the brisk lambs that sport along the mead. NWAD SPORT.25
2. To trifle. The man that laughs at religion sports with his own salvation. NWAD SPORT.26
1. Merry; frolicksome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; as a sportful companion. NWAD SPORTFUL.2
Down he alights among the sportful herd. NWAD SPORTFUL.3
2. Ludicrous; done in jest or for mere play. NWAD SPORTFUL.4
These are no sportful productions of the soil. NWAD SPORTFUL.5
1. Gay; merry; wanton; frolicksome. NWAD SPORTIVE.2
Is it I that drive thee from the sportive court? NWAD SPORTIVE.3
2. Inclined to mirth; playful; as a sportive humor. NWAD SPORTIVE.4
1. Playfulness; mirth; merriment. NWAD SPORTIVENESS.2
2. Disposition to mirth. NWAD SPORTIVENESS.3
1. One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes and fowls. NWAD SPORTSMAN.2
2. One skilled in the sports of the field. NWAD SPORTSMAN.3
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. NWAD SPOT.2
2. A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish. NWAD SPOT.3
Yet Chloe sure was formd without a spot. NWAD SPOT.4
See 1 Peter 1:17; Ephesians 5:27. NWAD SPOT.5
3. A small extent of space; a place; any particular place. NWAD SPOT.6
The spot to which I point is paradise. NWAD SPOT.7
Fixd to one spot. NWAD SPOT.8
So we say, a spot of ground, a spot of grass or flowers; meaning a place of small extent. NWAD SPOT.9
4. A place of a different color from the ground; as the spots of a leopard. NWAD SPOT.10
5. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak. NWAD SPOT.11
6. A dark place on the disk or face of the sun or of a planet. NWAD SPOT.12
7. A lucid place in the heavens. NWAD SPOT.13
Upon the spot, immediately; before moving; without changing place. [So the French say, sur le champ.] NWAD SPOT.14
It was determined upon the spot. NWAD SPOT.15
1. To make a visible mark with some foreign matter; to discolor; to stain; as, to spot a garment; to spot paper. NWAD SPOT.17
2. To patch by way of ornament. NWAD SPOT.18
3. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish; as reputation. NWAD SPOT.19
My virgin life no spotted thoughts shall stain. NWAD SPOT.20
To stop timber, is to cut or chip it, in preparation for hewing. NWAD SPOT.21
1. Free from spots, foul matter or discoloration. NWAD SPOTLESS.2
2. Free from reproach or impurity; pure; untainted; innocent; as a spotless mind; spotless behavior. NWAD SPOTLESS.3
A spotless virgin and a faultless wife. NWAD SPOTLESS.4