SPINDLE-SHANKS
SPIN'DLE-LEGS, SPIN'DLE-SHANKS, noun A tall slender person; in contempt.
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SPINDLE-SHAPED
SPIN'DLE-SHAPED, adjective Having the shape of a spindle; fusiform.
SPINDLE-TREE
SPIN'DLE-TREE, noun A plant, prick-wood, of the genus Euonymus.
SPINE
SPINE, noun [Latin]1. The back bone of an animal.2. The shin of the leg.3. A thorn; a sharp process from the woody part of a plant. It differs from a prickle, which proceeds for...
SPINEL
SPI'NEL, SPINELLE, noun The spinelle ruby, says Hauy; is the true ruby, a gem of a red color, blended with tints of blue or yellow. It is in grains more or less crystalized. A s...
SPINELLANE
SPINELLANE, noun A mineral occurring in small crystaline masses and in minute crystals. It has been found only near the lake of Laach.
SPINELLE
SPI'NEL, SPINELLE noun The SPINELLE ruby, says Hauy; is the true ruby, a gem of a red color, blended with tints of blue or yellow. It is in grains more or less crystalized. A su...
SPINESCENT
SPINES'CENT, adjective [from spine.] Becoming hard and thorny.
SPINET
SPIN'ET, noun An instrument of music resembling a harpsichord, but smaller; a virginal; a clavichord.SPIN'ET, noun [Latin spinetum.] A small wood or place where briars and thorn...
SPINIFEROUS
SPINIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin spina, spine, and fero, to bear.] Producing spines; bearing thorns.
SPINING-WHEEL
SPIN'ING-WHEEL, noun A wheel for spinning wool, cotton or flax into threads.
SPINK
SPINK, noun A bird; a finch.
SPINNER
SPIN'NER, noun1. One that spins; one skilled in spinning.2. A spider.
SPINNING
SPIN'NING, participle present tense Drawing out and twisting into threads; drawing out; delaying.SPIN'NING, noun1. The act, practice or art of drawing out and twisting into thre...
SPINNING-JENNY
SPIN'NING-JENNY, noun An engine or complicated machine for spinning wool or cotton, in the manufacture of cloth.
SPINOLET
SPIN'OLET, noun A small bird of the lark kind.
SPINOSITY
SPINOS'ITY, noun The state of being spiny or thorny; crabbedness.
SPINOUS
SPI'NOUS, adjective [Latin spinosus, from spina.] Full of spines; armed with thorns; thorny.
SPINOZISM
SPI'NOZISM, noun The doctrines or principles of Spinoza, a native of Amsterdam, consisting in atheism and pantheism, or naturalism and hulotheism, which allows of no God but nat...
SPINSTER
SPIN'STER, noun [spin and ster.]1. A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin. Hence,2. In law, the common title by which a woman without rank or distinction is designate...
SPINSTRY
SPIN'STRY, noun The business of spinning.
SPINTHERE
SPIN'THERE, noun A mineral of a greenish gray color.
SPINY
SPI'NY, adjective [from spine.]1. Full of spines; thorny; as a spiny tree.2. Perplexed; difficult; troublesome.
SPIRACLE
SPIR'ACLE, noun [Latin spiraculum, form spiro, to breathe.]1. A small aperture in animal and vegetable bodies, by which air or other fluid is exhaled or inhaled; a small hole, o...
SPIRAL
SPI'RAL, adjective [Latin spira, a spire.] Winding round a cylinder or other round body, or in a circular form, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like a ...
SPIRALLY
SPI'RALLY, adverb In a spiral form or direction; in the manner of a screw.
SPIRATION
SPIRA'TION, noun [Latin spiratio.] A breathing. [Not used.]