Webster's Dictionary 1828

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SPUNGIFORM

SPUNGIFORM, adjective [spunge and form.] Resembling a spunge; soft and porous; porous.

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SPUNGINESS

SPUNGINESS, noun The quality or state of being spungy, or porous like spunge.

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SPUNGING-HOUSE

SPUNGING-HOUSE, noun A bailiffs house to put debtors in.

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SPUNGIOUS

SPUNGIOUS, adjective Full of small cavities, like a spunge; as spungious bones.

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SPUNGY

SPUNGY, adjective1. Soft and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as a spungy excrescence; spungy earth; spungy cake; the spungy substance of the lungs.2. Full ...

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SPUNK

SPUNK, noun [probably from punk.]1. Touchwood; wood that readily takes fire. Hence,2. Vulgarly, an inflammable temper; spirit; as a man of spunk Ill natured observations touched...

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SPUR

SPUR, noun1. An instrument having a rowel or little wheel with sharp points, worn on horsemens heels, to prick the horses for hastening their pace.Girt with rusty sword and spur...

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SPUR-ROYAL

SPUR-ROYAL, noun A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV. IN the reign of James I. its value was fifteen shillings. Sometimes written spur-rial or ryal.

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SPURGALL

SPURGALL, verb transitive [spur and gall.] To gall or wound with a spur.SPURGALL, noun A place galled or excoriated by much using of the spur.

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SPURGALLED

SPURGALLED, participle passive Galled or hurt by a spur; as a spurgalled hackney.

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SPURGE

SPURGE, noun [Latin] A plant of the genus Euphorbia.

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SPURGE-FLAX

SPURGE-FLAX, noun A plant. [Latin]

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SPURGE-LAUREL

SPURGE-LAUREL, noun The Daphne laureola, a shrub, a native of Europe.

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SPURGE-OLIVE

SPURGE-OLIVE, noun Mezereon, a shrub of the genus Daphne.

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SPURGE-WORT

SPURGE-WORT, noun A plant. [Latin]

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SPURGING

SPURGING, for purging, not in use.

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SPURIOUS

SPURIOUS, adjective [Latin]1. Not genuine; not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; counterfeit; false; adulterate. spurious writings are such as are n...

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SPURIOUSLY

SPURIOUSLY, adverb Counterfeitly; falsely.

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SPURIOUSNESS

SPURIOUSNESS, noun1. The state or quality of being counterfeit, false or not genuine; as the spuriousness of drugs, of coin or of writings.2. Illegitimacy; the state of being ba...

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SPURLING

SPURLING, noun A small sea fish.

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SPURLING-LINE

SPURLING-LINE, noun Among seamen, the line which forms the communication between the wheel and the tell-tale.

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SPURN

SPURN, verb transitive [Latin, spur, kicking.]1. To kick; to drive back or away, as with the foot.2. To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept. What multitudes of ra...

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SPURN-WATER

SPURN-WATER, In ships, a channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.

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SPURNED

SPURNED, participle passive Rejected with disdain; treated with contempt.

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SPURNER

SPURNER, noun One who spurns.

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SPURNEY

SPURNEY, noun A plant.

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SPURNING

SPURNING, participle present tense Rejecting with contempt.