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SPICK AND SPAN, bright; shining; as a garment spick and span new, or span-new. b...
SPICK'NEL, SPIG'NEL, n. The herb maldmony or bear wort. the Athamanta Meum, Ethu...
SPICOS'ITY, n. [L. spica.] The state of having or being full of ears, like corn....
SPIC'ULAR, a. [L. spiculum, a dart.] Resembling a dart; having sharp points.
SPIC'ULATE, v.t. [L. spiculo, to sharpen, from spiculum, a dart, from spica, or ...
SPI'CY, a. [from spice.] 1. Producing spice; abounding with spices; as the spicy...
SPI'DER, n. [I know not from what source this word is derived.] The common name ...
SPI'DER-CATCHER, n. A bird so called.
SPI'DERLIKE, a. Resembling a spider.
SPI'DERWORT, n. A plant of the genus Anthericum.
SPIG'NEL. [See Spicknel .]
SPIG'OT, n. A pin or peg used to stop a faucet, or to stop a small hole in a cas...
SPIKE, n. [L. L. spica, and ear of corn. It signifies a shoot or point.] 1. A la...
SPIKE-LAVENDER, n. The Lavandula spica.
SPI'KED, pp. Furnished with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with ...
SPI'KELET, n. In botany, a small spike of a large one; or a subdivision of a spike.