Splutterer (n.) One who splutters.
Spodomancy (n.) Divination by means of ashes.
Spodomantic (a.) Relating to spodomancy, or divination by means of ashes.
Spodumene (n.) A mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emerald-green color, occuring in prismatic crystals, often of great size. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia. See Hiddenite.
Spoffish (a.) Earnest and active in matters of no moment; bustling.
Spoiled (imp. & p. p.) of Spoil
Spoilt () of Spoil
Spoiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spoil
Spoil (v. t.) To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.
Spoil (v. t.) To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.
Spoil (v. t.) To cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar.
Spoil (v. t.) To render useless by injury; to injure fatally; to ruin; to destroy; as, to spoil paper; to have the crops spoiled by insects; to spoil the eyes by reading.
Spoil (v. i.) To practice plunder or robbery.
Spoil (v. i.) To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.
Spoil (n.) That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
Spoil (n.) Public offices and their emoluments regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage; -- commonly in the plural; as to the victor belong the spoils.
Spoil (n.) That which is gained by strength or effort.
Spoil (n.) The act or practice of plundering; robbery; aste.
Spoil (n.) Corruption; cause of corruption.
Spoil (n.) The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal.
Spoilable (a.) Capable of being spoiled.
Spoiler (n.) One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.
Spoiler (n.) One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
Spoilfive (n.) A certain game at cards in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be spoiled.
Spoilful (a.) Wasteful; rapacious.
Spoilsmen (pl. ) of Spoilsman
Spoilsman (n.) One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service.
Spoilsmonger (n.) One who promises or distributes public offices and their emoluments as the price of services to a party or its leaders.
Spoke () imp. of Speak.
Spoke (n.) 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.
Spoke (n.) A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
Spoke (n.) A rung, or round, of a ladder.
Spoke (n.) A contrivance for fastening the wheel of a vehicle, to prevent it from turning in going down a hill.
Spoked (imp. & p. p.) of Spoke
Spoking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spoke
Spoke (v. t.) To furnish with spokes, as a wheel.
Spoken (a.) Uttered in speech; delivered by word of mouth; oral; as, a spoken narrative; the spoken word.
Spoken (a.) Characterized by a certain manner or style in speaking; -- often in composition; as, a pleasant-spoken man.
Spokeshave (n.) A kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work.
Spokesmen (pl. ) of Spokesman
Spokesman (n.) One who speaks for another.
Spoliated (imp. & p. p.) of Spoliate
Spoliating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spoliate
Spoliate (v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to despoil; to rob.
Spoliation (v. t.) The act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation.
Spoliation (v. t.) Robbery or plunder in war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea.
Spoliation (v. t.) The act of an incumbent in taking the fruits of his benefice without right, but under a pretended title.
Spoliation (v. t.) A process for possession of a church in a spiritual court.
Spoliation (v. t.) Injury done to a document.
Spoliative (a.) Serving to take away, diminish, or rob; esp. (Med.), serving to diminish sensibily the amount of blood in the body; as, spoliative bloodletting.
Spoliator (n.) One who spoliates; a spoiler.
Spoliatory (a.) Tending to spoil; destructive; spoliative.
Spondaic (a.) Alt. of Spondaical
Spondaical (a.) Or of pertaining to a spondee; consisting of spondees.
Spondaical (a.) Containing spondees in excess; marked by spondees; as, a spondaic hexameter, i. e., one which has a spondee instead of a dactyl in the fifth foot.
Spondee (n.) A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges.
Spondulics (n.) Money.
Spondyl (n.) Alt. of Spondyle
Spondyle (n.) A joint of the backbone; a vertebra.
Spong (n.) An irregular, narrow, projecting part of a field.
Sponge (n.) Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae.
Sponge (n.) The elastic fibrous skeleton of many species of horny Spongiae (keratosa), used for many purposes, especially the varieties of the genus Spongia. The most valuable sponges are found in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and on the coasts of Florida and the West Indies.
Sponge (n.) One who lives upon others; a pertinaceous and indolent dependent; a parasite; a sponger.
Sponge (n.) Any spongelike substance.
Sponge (n.) Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven.
Sponge (n.) Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
Sponge (n.) Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
Sponge (n.) A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.
Sponge (n.) The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel.
Sponged (imp. & p. p.) of Sponge
Sponging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sponge
Sponge (v. t.) To cleanse or wipe with a sponge; as, to sponge a slate or a cannon; to wet with a sponge; as, to sponge cloth.
Sponge (v. t.) To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
Sponge (v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of something by imposition.
Sponge (v. t.) Fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast.
Sponge (v. i.) To suck in, or imbile, as a sponge.
Sponge (v. i.) Fig.: To gain by mean arts, by intrusion, or hanging on; as, an idler sponges on his neighbor.
Sponge (v. i.) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast, or leaven.
Spongelet (n.) See Spongiole.
Spongeous (a.) Resembling sponge; having the nature or qualities of sponge.
Sponger (n.) One who sponges, or uses a sponge.
Sponger (n.) One employed in gathering sponges.
Sponger (n.) Fig.: A parasitical dependent; a hanger-on.
Spongiae (n. pl.) The grand division of the animal kingdom which includes the sponges; -- called also Spongida, Spongiaria, Spongiozoa, and Porifera.
Spongida (n. pl.) Spongiae.
Spongiform (a.) Resembling a sponge; soft and porous; porous.
Spongilla (n.) A genus of siliceous spongea found in fresh water.
Spongin (n.) The chemical basis of sponge tissue, a nitrogenous, hornlike substance which on decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and glycocoll.
Sponginess (n.) The quality or state of being spongy.
Sponging () a. & n. from Sponge, v.
Spongiole (n.) A supposed spongelike expansion of the tip of a rootlet for absorbing water; -- called also spongelet.
Spongiolite (n.) One of the microsporic siliceous spicules which occur abundantly in the texture of sponges, and are sometimes found fossil, as in flints.
Spongiopilin (n.) A kind of cloth interwoven with small pieces of sponge and rendered waterproof on one side by a covering of rubber. When moistend with hot water it is used as a poultice.
Spongiose (a.) Alt. of Spongious
Spongious (a.) Somewhat spongy; spongelike; full of small cavities like sponge; as, spongious bones.
Spongiozoa (n. pl.) See Sponglae.
Spongoblast (n.) One of the cells which, in sponges, secrete the spongin, or the material of the horny fibers.
Spongoid (a.) Resembling sponge; like sponge.
Spongy (a.) Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones.
Spongy (a.) Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.