Webster's Dictionary 1828

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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 s...

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SPLENDIDLY

SPLENDIDLY, adverb1. With great brightness or brilliant light.2. Magnificently; sumptuously; richly; as a house splendidly furnished.3. With great pomp or show. The king was spl...

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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 splend...

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SPLENDROUS

SPLENDROUS, adjective Having splendor. [Not in use.]

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SPLENETIC

SPLENETIC, adjective [Latin] Affected with spleen; peevish; fretful.You humor me when I am sick; Why not when I am spleneticSPLENETIC, noun A person affected with spleen.

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SPLENIC

SPLENIC, adjective Belonging to the spleen; as the splenic vein.

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SPLENISH

SPLENISH, adjective Affected with spleen; peevish; fretful.

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SPLENITIVE

SPLENITIVE, adjective Hot; fiery; passionate; irritable. [Not in use.]I am not splenitive and rash.

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SPLENT

SPLENT, noun1. A callous substance or insensible swelling on the shank-bone of a horse.2. A splint. [See Splint.]

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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...

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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 o...

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SPLINTER

SPLINTER, verb intransitive To be split or rent into long pieces.

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SPLINTERED

SPLINTERED, participle passive Split into splinters; secured by splints.

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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 t...

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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 ...

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SPLIT

SPLIT, verb transitivepreterit tense and participle passivesplit [G. See Spalt.]1. To divide longitudinally or lengthwise; to separate a thing from end to end by force; to rive;...

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SPLITTER

SPLITTER, noun One who splits.

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SPLITTING

SPLITTING, participle present tense Bursting; riving; rending.

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SPLUTTER

SPLUTTER, noun A bustle; a stir. [A low word and little used.]SPLUTTER, verb intransitive To speak hastily and confusedly. [Low.]

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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 fac...

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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...

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SPOILED

SPOILED, participle passive Plundered; pillaged; corrupted; rendered useless.

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SPOILER

SPOILER, noun1. A plunderer; a pillager; a robber.2. One that corrupts, mars or renders useless.

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SPOILFUL

SPOILFUL, adjective Wasteful; rapacious. [Little used.]

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SPOILING

SPOILING, participle present tense1. Plundering; pillaging; corrupting; rendering useless.2. Wasting; decaying.SPOILING, noun Plunder; waste.

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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 ...

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SPOKE-SHAVE

SPOKE-SHAVE, noun A kind of plane to smooth the shells of blocks.