and many Spr’AL. n. s. [espial, Fr.) A spy; a scout ; newly extended or dressed at the cloth. a watcher. Obsolete. iers, and spick and span is newly exHis ears be as spials, alarum to crie. Tusser. tended on the spikes or tenters; it is He privy spials plac'd in all his way, however a low word.] Quite new; To weet what course he takes, and how he fares. Spenser. now first used. For he by faithful spial was assur'd While the honour thou hast got Is spick and span new, piping hot, Butler. Their trust towards them hath rather been as They would have these reduced to nothing, to good spials and good whisperers, than good and then others created spick and span new out Bacon. of nothing. magistrates and officers. Burnet. SPICE. n. s. [espices, French.] I keep no antiquated stuff; But spick and span I have enough. Swift: 1. A vegetable production, fragrant to the SPICKNEL or Spignel. n. s. [meum, Lat.] smell and pungent to the palate ; an aromatick substance used in sauces. The herb maldmony or bearwort. Dict. Spico'sity. n. s. [spica,Lat.] The quaDang rous rocks, Which, touching but my gentle vessel's side, lity of being spiked like ears of corn; Would scatter all the spices on the stream. fulness of ears. Dict. Shakspeare. Spicy. adj. [from spice.] Is not manhood, learning, gentleness, and vir 1. Producing spice; abounding with arotue, the spice and salt that seasons a man? Shak. maticks. Garlick, the northern spice, is in mighty re Offat sea north-east winds blow quest among the Indians. Temple. Sabæan odour, from the spicy shore High sauces and rich spices are fetched from Of Araby the blest; with such delay the Indies. Baker. Well pleas'd they slack their course; 2. A small quantity, as of spice to the a league, thing seasoned. Cheer'd with the grateful smell, old ocean smiles. Think what they have done, Milton And then run stark mad; for all For them the Idumæan balm did sweat, Thy by-gone fooleries were but spices of it. And in hot Ceilon spicy forests grew. Dryden. Sbakspeare. 2. Aromatick; having the qualities of spice. It containeth singular relations, not without The regimen in this disease ought to be of spicy some spice or sprinkling of all learning. Brown. and cephalick vegetables, to dispel the viscosity. So in the wicked there's no vice, debutbror. Of which the saints have not a spice. Hudibras. Under southern skies exalt their sails, TO SPICE. v. a. (from the noun.] To sea- Led by new stars, and borne by spiry gales. Pope: son with spice; to mix with aromatick SPIDER. 1. s. [Skinner thinks this word bodies. softened from spinder, or spinner, from His mother was a vot'ress of my order, spin: Junius, with his usual felicity, And in the spiced Indian air by night dreams that it comes from ori***, to Full often she hath gossip'd by my side. Shaksp. extend; for the spider extends his web. With a festivall She 'll first receive thee; but will spice thv bread Perhaps it comes from spieden, Dutch, With flowrie poysons. Chapman. spesden, Danish, to spy, to lie upon the These hymns may work on future wits, and so catch. Dor, dora, Saxon, is a beetie, May great-grandchildren of thy praises grow; or properly a humble bee, or stingless bee. And so, though not revive, embalm and spice May not spider be spy dor, the insect The world, which else would putrify with vice. that watches the dor? The animal that Donne. spins a web for fies. Of cloves and nutmegs, and in cinnamon sail, More direful hap betide that hated wretch, If thou hast wherewithal to spice a draught, Than I can wish to adders, spiders, toads. Sbakan When griefs prevail? Herbert. The spider's web to watch we'll stand, And, when it takes the bee, SPICER. n.s. [from spice.] One who deals We'll help out of the tyrant's hand in spice. The innocent to free. Drayton. Names have been derived from occupations, as Insidious, restless, watchful, spider, Salter and Spicer. Camden, Fear yo officious damsel's broom; SPI'CERY. n. s. [espiceries, Fr. from spice.] Extend thy artful fabrick wider, 1. The commodity of spices. And spread thy banners round my room: Their camels were loaden with spicery, and While I thy curious fabrick stare at, balm, and myrrh. Kaleigh. And think on hapless poet's fate, Like thee contin'd to noisome garret, And rudely banish'd rooms of state. Dr. Littlet. Europe and Africk, and the unknown rest, The spider's touch how exquisitely fine! Were easily found. Donne. Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. Popes 2. A repository of spices. The spicery, the cellar and its furniture, are SPIDERCATCHER. n. s. [from spider and too well known to be here insisted upon. Addis. catcher ; picus murarils, Lat.] A bird. SPICK and SPAN, [This word 'I should SPI'DERWOrt. n. s. [sphalangium, Lat.) not have expected to have found au- A plant with a lily-fower, composed of thorized by a polite writer. Span-new six petals. Miller is used by Chaucer, and is supposed to SPIGNEL. n. s. A plant. See SPICKNÈL. come from spannan, to stretch, Saxon; Spi'GOT. N. s. [spijcker, Dut.] expandere, Latin ; whence span. Span- peg put into the faucet to keep in the new is therefore originally used of cluth liquor. pin or Base Hungarian wight, wilt thou the spigot Friend or brother, wield? Sbakspeare. He forfeits his own blood that spillo another. Take out the spigot, and clap she point in Shakspeare. your mouth. Savijt. Themselves exact their cruelty, SPIKE. n. s. (spica, Latin.] And I constrained am this blood to spill . Daniel. 1. An ear of corn. They having spill'd much blood, and dono much waste, Drawn up in ranks and files, the bearded spikes Guard it from birds, as with a stand of pikes. Subduing nations; and achiey'd thereby Fame in the world, high titles, and rich prey; Denbam. Shall change their course to pleasure, ease, and Milton. He tramples down the spikes, and intercepts the Medea must not draw her murth'ring knife, year. Drydet the stage. Roscommon. Spike after spike, their sparing harvest pick. Orbellan did disgrace With treach'rous deeds our mighty mother's 2. A long nail of iron or wood; a long race; rod of iron sharpened : so called from And to revenge his blood, so justly spilt, its similitude to an ear of corn. What is it less than to partake his guilt? Dryd. For the body of the ships, no nation equals Nor the Centaur's tale England for the oaken timber; and we need not Be here repeated; how, with lust and wine borrow of any other iron for spikes, or nails to Infiam'd, they fought and spilt their drunken fasten them. Bacon, souls The head of your medal would be seen to At feasting hour. Philipino more advantage, if it were placed on a spike of 2. To destroy ; to mischief. the tower. Dryden. Thus is our thought with pain of thistle tilled, He wears on his head the corona radiata, an- Thus be our noblest parts dried up with sorrow; other type of his divinity: the spikes that shoot Thus is our mind with too much minding spilled. out represent the rays of the sun. Addison. Sancy. SPIKE. n. $. A smaller species of lavender. Why are you so fierce and cruel? The oil of spike is much used by our artificers Is it because your eyes have power to kill? in their varnishes; but it is generally adulterat. Then know that mercy is the Mighty's jewel, ed. Hill. And greater glory think to save than spill. Spetisa To SPIKE. v. a. (from the noun.] Thou 'all-shaking thunder, 1. To fasten with long nails. Crack nature's mould, all germins spill at once Sbalspure. Lay long planks upon them, pinned or spiked down to the pieces of oak on which they lie. Be not angry with these fires; For then their threats will kill me: Moxon. Lay long planks upon them, spiking or pin Nor look coo kind on my desires; ning them down fast. Mortimer. For then my hopes will spill me. B. Jonsor. All bodies are avith other bodies fill'd; 2. To set with spikes. But she receives both heav'n and earth together: A youth, leaping over the spiked pales, was Nor are their forms by rash encounters spill'd; suddenly frighted down, and in his falling he was For there they stand, and neither toucheth eicatched by those spikes. Wiseman. Davies. 3. To make sharp at the end. 3. To throw away. SPIKENARD. n. s. (spica nurdi, Lat.) A This sight shall dampthe raging ruffian's breast, plant; and the oil or balsam produced The poison spill, and half-drawn sword arrest. from the plant. Tickel. It grows plentifully in Java. It has TO SPILL. V. n. been known to the medical writers of 1. To waste; to be lavish. Hill. Thy father bids thee spare, and chides for A woman, having an alabaster box of oint spilling, Sidney. ment of spikenard, brake and poured it on his 2. To be shed ; to be lost by being shed. head. Mark. He was so topfull of himself, that he let it He cast into the pile bundles of myrrh, and spill on all the company: he spoke well indeed, sheaves of spikenard, enriching it with every but he spoke too long. Waits. spicy slirub. Spectator. Spiller. n. s. [1 know not whence deSpill. n. s. (spijlen, Dutch.] rived.] A kind of fishing line. 1. A small shiver of wood, or thin bar of In harbour they are taken by spillers made of iron. a cord, to which divers shorter are tied at a The oysters, besides gathering by hand, have litele distance, and to each of these a hook is a peculiar dredge, which is a thick strong net, fastened, with a bait: this spiller they sink in the sea where those fishes have their accustomfastened to three spills of iron, and drawn at the Carew. Carew, Have near the bunghole a little venthole, Spilth. n. s. [from spill.] Any thing stopped with a spill. Mortimer. poured out or wasted. 1. A small quantity of money. I know Our vaults have wept with drunken spilth of not whence derived. wine. Shakspeare, The bishops, who consecrated this ground, To SPIN. v. a. pret. spun or span; part. were wont to have a spill or sportule from the spun. [rpınnan, Saxon ; spinnen, Dut.] Ayliffe. 1. To draw out into threads. 7. SPILL. v. a. (rpillan, Saxon ; spillen, The women spun goats hair. Exodus. Dutch; spilla, Islandick.) 2. To forin threads by drawing out and s. To shed; to lose by shedding. twisting any filamentous matier. Be satisfied, dear God, with our true blood, You would be another Penelope; yet a'l tho Wincn, as thou know'st, unjustly must be spilt. yarn she spun, in Ulysses's absence, did but till Shukspari. icbaca full of mutis. waukera all ages. ܪ boat's stern. credulous laity. L'Er'range, Jasper Maine. The fates but only spin the coarser clue; from the brain and spinal marrow, which by their The finest of the wool is left for you. Dryden. bulk appear sufficient to furnish all the stamina 3. To protract; to draw out. er threads of the solid parts. Arbuthnot. By one delay after another they spin out their Descending careless from his couch, the fall whole lives, till there 's no more future left be- Lux'd his joint neck, and spinal marrow bruis'd. fore 'em. Philips. Why should Rome fall a moment ere her time? SPI'NDLE. n. s. [spindl, rpindel, Sax.) No, let us draw her term of freedom out 1. The pini by which the thread is formed, In its full length, and spin it to the last. Addison. and on which it is conglomerated. 4. To form by degrees; to draw out te- Bodies fibrous by moisture incorporate with diously. other thread, especially if there be a little wreathI passed lightly over many particulars, on ing; as appeareth by the twisting of thread, and which learned and witty men might spin out twirling about of spindles. Bacon. large volumes. Digby. Sing to those that hold the vital sheers, it his cure lies among the lawyers, let nothing And turn the adamantine spindle round be said against ir.tangling property, spinning out On which the fate of gods and men is wound. causes, and squeezing clients. Collier. Milton. Men of large thoughts and quick apprehen- Upon a true repentance, God is not so fatally sions are not to expect any thing here, but what, tied to the spindle of absolute reprobation as not being spun out of my own coarse thoughts, is to keep his promise, and seal merciful pardons. fitted to men of my own size. Loike. The lines are weak, another 's pleas'd to say; So Pallas from the dusty field withdrew, Lord Fanny spins a thousand such a day. Pope. And, when imperial Jove appear’d in view, s. To put into a turning motion, as a boy's Resum'd her female arts, the spindle and the clew; top: Forgot the sceptre she so well had sway'd, T. SPIN. v. n. And, with that mildness she had ruld, obey'd. Stepney, 1. To exercise the art of spinning, or draw. Do you take me for a Roman matron, ing threads. Bred tamely to the spindle and the loom? A.Pbil. We can fling our legs and arms upwards and, 2. A long slender stalk. downwards, backwards, forwards, and round, as The spindles must be tied up, and, as they they that spin. More. grow in height, rods set by them, lest by their Ten thousand stalks their various blossoms bending they should break. Mortimer. spread; 3. Any thing slender. In contempt. Peaceful and lowly in their native soil, They neither know to spin, nor care to toil. Repose yourself, if those spindle legs of yours Prior. Dryden. will carry you to the next chair. The marriage of one of our heiresses with an For this Alcides learn'd to spin; Prior. His club laid down, and lion's skin. eminent courtier gave us spindle shanks and cramps. Tatler. 2. '[spingare, Italian.] To stream out in a To SPI'NDLE. v. n. (from the noun.) To thread or small current. shoot into a long small stalk. Together furiously they ran, Another ill accident in drought is the spindling That to the ground came horse and inan; The blood out of their helmets span, of the corn, which with us is rare, but in hotter So sharp were their encounters. Drayton. countries commen; insomuch as the word cala mity was first derived from calamus, when the 3. To move round as a spindle. corn could not get out of the stalk. Bacon, Whether the sun, predominant in heav'n, When the flowers begin to spindle, all but one Rise on the earth, or earth rise on the sun; or two of the biggest, at each root, should be He from the east his faming road begin, nipped off. Mortimer. Or she from west her silent course advance SPINDLESHA’NKED. adj. (spindle and With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle, while she paces ev'n shank.] Having small legs. And bears thee soft with the smooth air along, Her lawyer is a little rivelled, spirdlesbanked, Solicit not thy thoughts. Milton. Addison, The grain deep piercing till it scoops it out. Pope. The rapier entered his right side, reaching SPI'NACH. n. so (spinachia, Latin.] A within a finger's breadth of the spine. Wiseman. SPI'NAGE.) plant. There are who think the marrow of a man, It hath an apetalous flower, consisting Which in the spine, while he was living, ran; of many stamina included in the flower. When dead, the pith corrupted, will become A snake, and hiss within the hollow tomb. Drgd. cup, which are produced in spikes SPI'NEL. n. s. A sort of mineral. Spinel upon the male plants, which are barren; ruby is of a bright rosy red; it is softer but the embryos are produced from the wings of the leaves on the female plants, SPINE'T. n. s. [espinette, Fr.] A small than the rock or balass ruby. Woodev. which afterward become roundish or angular seeds, which, in some sorts, have harpsichord; an instrument with keys. When miss delights in her spinnet, thorns adhering to them. Miller. A fiddler may his fortune get. Swift. Spinage is an excellent herb, crude or boiled. Mortimer. SPINI'FEROUS. adj. (spina and fero, Lat.) SPI'NAL. adj. Ispina, Lat.) Belonging to Bearing thorns. the backbone. SPINK. n. s. A finch; a bird. All spinal, or such as have no ribs, but only a Want sharpens poesy, and grief adors; back bone, are somewhat analogous thereto. The spink chaunts sweetest in a hedge of thorns. Brown. Herk. Those solids are entirely nervous, and proceed SPI'NNER. 4. s. [from spin.] a SPI 1. One skilled in spinning, 1. A curve line ; any thing wreathed or A practised spinner shall spin a pound of wool contorted, every wreath being in a difworth two shillings for sixpence. Graunt. ferent plane ; a curl ; a twist; a wreath. 2. A garden spider, with long jointed legs. His head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes; Hence, you long-legg'd spinners, hence! Sheksp. With burnish'd neck of verdant goid, erect SPINNING Wheel. n. s. [from spin.] The Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass wheel by which, since the disuse of the Floated redundani. Milton, rock, the thread is drawn. A dragon's nery form belied the god, Sublime on radiant spires he rode. Dryden. Air seems to consist of spires contorted into SPI'NNY. adj. I suppose, small, slender. small spheres, through the interstices of which the particles of light may freely pass; it is light, A barbarous word. the solid substance of the spires being very small They plow it early in the year, and then there in proportion to the spaces they take up. Cheyne. will come some spinny grass that will keep it 2. Any thing growing up taper; a round from scalding. Mortimer. SPINO'sity. n. s. (spinosus, Lat.] Crab pyramid, so called, perhaps, because a line drawn round and round in less and bedness; thorny or briary perplexity: Philosophy consisted of nought but dry spino less circles would be a spire ; a steeple. sities, lean notions, and endless altercations about With glist'ring spires and pinnacles adorn'd. things of nothing. Glanville. Milton. SPI'NOUS. adj. [spinosus, Lat.] Thorny; He cannot make one spire of grass more or less than he hath made. Hale. full of thorns. These pointed spires that wound the ambient SPI'NSTER. N. s. [from spin.] sky, 1. A woman that spins. Inglorious change! shallin destruction lie. Prior. The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, 3. The top or uppermost point. And the free maids that weave their thread with 'T were no less than a traducement to silence, bones, that Do use to chant it. Sbakspeare. Which to the spire and top of praises vouch'd, One Michael Cassio, Would seem but modest. Sbakspears. That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows TO SPIRE. v. n. (from the noun.] More than a spinster. Shakspeare. 1. To shoot up pyramidically: 2. [In law.] The general term for a girl or It is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, maiden woman. being more inclined to branch into arms. Mortimer. If a gentlewoman be termed spinster, she may abate the writ. Lord Coke. 2. (spiro, Lat.] To breathe. Not in use. I desire that a yearly annuity of twenty pounds Spenser. shall be paid to Rebecca Dingley, of the city of SPI'RIT. n. s. [spiritus, Latin.] Dublin, spinster, during her life. Swift. I. Breath; wind. SPINSTRY. n. s. [from spinster.] The All purges have in them a raw spirit or wind, work of spinning which is the principal cause of tension in the stoSpi'ny. adj. (spina, Lat.] Thorny; bri mach. Bacon, All bodies have spirits and pneumatical parts ary ; perplexed ; difficult; troublesome. within them; but the main difference between The first attempts are always imperfect; much animate and inanimate are, that the spirits of more in so difficult and spiny an affair as so nice things animate are all continued within thema subject. Digby. selves, and branched in veins as blood is; and SPI'R ACLE. n. s. [spiraculum, Latin.) A the spirits have also certain seats where the breathing hole; a vent; a small aper- principal do reside, and whereunto the rest do ture. resort: but the spirits in things inanimate are Most of these spiracles perpetually send forth shut in and cut off by the tangible parts, as air fire, more or less. Woodward. in snow. Bacon. SPI'RAL. adj. [spirale, Fr. from spira, The balmy spirit of the western breeze. Anon. Lat.] Curve; winding; circularly in- 2. [esprit, Fr.] An immaterial substance; volved, like a screw. an intellectual being. The process of the fibres in the ventricles, Spirit is a substance wherein thinking, knowruaning in spiral lines from the tip to the base ing, doubting, and a power of moving, do subsist. of the heart, shews that the systole of the heart Laike. is a muscular constriction, as a purse is shut by She is a spirit; yet not like air or wind, drawing the strings contrary ways. Ray. Nor like the spirits about the heart or brain; Why earth or sun diurnal stages keep? Nor like those spirits which alchymists dofind, In spiral tracts why through the zodiack creep? When they in ev'ry thing seek gold in vain:. Blackmore. For she all natures under heav'n doth pass, The intestinal tube affects a straight, instead Being like those spirits which God's bright face of a spiral, cylinder. Arbutbnot. SPI'RALLY. adv. [from spiral.] In a spi- Or like himself, whose image once she was, ral form. Though now, alas! she scarce his shadow be: For of all forms she holds the first degree, The sides are composed of two orders of fi That are to gross material bodies knit; bres, running circularly or spirally from base to tip. Ray. Yet she herself is bodyless and free, And though confin'd is almost infinite. Davies. SPIRA’TION. n. s. [spiratio, Lat.] Breath I shall depend up in your constant friendship; ing. like the trust we wave in benevolent spirits, SPIRE. n. s. [spira, Lat. spira, Ital. spira, who, though we never see or hear then, we Swedish.] think arc constantly praying for us. Popes s .VOL. IV. do sec; air. If we seclude space, there will remain in the A perfect judge will read each work of wit world but matter and mind, or body and spirit. With the same spirit that its author writ: Watts. Survey the whole, nor seek slight fault to find, You are all of you pure spirits. I don't mean Where nature moves, and rapture warms, the that you have not bodies that want meat and mind. Pope. drink, and sleep and cloathing; but that all that 9. Intellectual powers distinct from the deserves to be called you, is nothing else buc body. spirit. Law. These discourses made so deep impression up3. The soul of man. on the mind and spirit of the prince, whose naThe spirit shall return unto God that gave it. ture was inclined to adventures, that he was Bible. transported with the thought of it. Clarendoa. Look, who comes here? a grave unto a soul, In spirit perhaps he also saw Holding th' eternal spirit 'gainst her will Rich Mexico, the seat of Montezume. Miltor. In the vile prison of aificted breath. Sbaksp. Every thing that you call yours, besides this 10. Sentiment ; perception. spirit, is but like your clothing: sometimes You are too great to be by me gainsaid : that is only to be used for a while, and then to Your spirit is too true, your fears too certain. end, and die, and wear away. Law. Sbakspeare. 4. An apparition. 11. Eagerness; desire. They were terrified, and supposed that they God has changed men's tempers with the had seen a spirit. Luke. times, and made a spirit of building succeed a Perhaps you might see the image, and not the spirit of pulling down. South. glass; the former appearing like a spirit in the 12. Man of activity ; man of life, fire, and Bacon. enterprise. 'The watry kingdom is no bar all impressions of spirits and goblins in the dark. To stop the foreign spirits, but they come. Sbak. Locke. 13. Persons distinguished by qualities of s. Temper; habitual disposition of mind. the mind. A French word, happily He sits Upon their tongues a various spirit, to rase growing obsolete. Quite out their native language. Romish adversaries, from the rising up of Milton. some schismatical spirits amongst us, conclude That peculiar law of christianity, which for that the main body of our church is schismatic bids revenge, no man can think grievous, who cal, because some branches or members thereof considers the restless torment of a malicious Tillotson. were such. and revengeful spirit. W bite. Nor once disturb their heav'nly spirits Oft pitying God did well-form'd spirits raise, Fit for the toilsome bus'ness of their days, To free the groaning nation, and to give Peace first, and then the rules in peace to live. spirit which prays for its most unjust enemies, if they have not kindness enough to pray for Cowlege those, by whose labours and service they live Such spirits as he desired to please, such would I chuse for my judges. in ease themselves. Law. Dryden. He is the devout man, who lives no longer 14. That which gives vigour or cheerfulon his own will, or the way and spirit of the ness to the mind; the purest part of the world, but to the sole will of God. Law. body, bordering, says Sydenham, on imb. Ardour ; courage; elevation; vehe- materiality. In this meaning it is commence of mind. monly written with the plural termina"T is well blown, lads ; tion. This morning, like the spirit of a youth Though thou didst but jest, That means to be of note, begins betimes. Shaks. With my vex'd spirits I cannot cake a truce, Farewel the big war, But they will quake. Sbakspeare. The spirit stirring drum, th' ear piercing fife. When I sit and tell The warlike feats I've done, his spirits fly out The king's party, called the cavaliers, began Into my story Shakspeare: to recover their spirits. Swift. Alas! when all our lamps are burn'd, 7. Genius ; vigour of mind. Our bodies wasted, and our spirits spent, More ample spirit than hitherto vas wont When we have all the learned volumes turn'd, Here needs me, whiles the famous ancestors Which yield men's wits both help and ornament; Of my most dreaded sovereign I recount, What can we know, or what can we discern? By which all earthly princes she doth tar sur Davies, It was the time when gentle night began T'indrench with sleep the busy spirits of man. That equal spirits and equal pow'rs shall bring, Cowley. Daniel, To sing thy praise, would heav'n my breack A wild Tartar, when he spies prolong, A man that 's handsome, valiant, wise, Infusing spirits worthy such a song, If he can kill him, thinks t' inherit Noc Thracian Orpheus should transcend my His wit, his beauty, and his spirit. Butler. lays. Dryden. The noblest spirit or genius canno: deserve All men by experience find the necessity and enough of mankind, to pretend to the esteem aid of the spirits in the business of concoction. of heroick virtue. Temple. Blackmore. By means of the curious inosculation of the 3. Turn of mind; power of mind, moral i auditory nerves, the orgasms of the spirits or intellectual. should be allayed. You were us'd In soine fair body thus the secret soul To say extremity was the crier of spirits, With spirits feeds, with vigour fills, the whole; That common chances common men could Each motion guides, and ev'ry nerve sustains, bear. Shakspears. Itself unseen, but in th' effects remains. Pope. I asks but half thy poighty spirit for me. Compley, Ho is always foreed to drink a liearty glass, o mount. Derbar. |