This mount, ment, that it splits and tears the earth, making cracks or chasms in it some miles. Woodward. With all his verdure spoil'd, and trees adrift. Milton 2. To divide; to part. Their logick has appeared the mere art of 2. To plunder ; to strip of goods: with of wrangling, and their metaphysicks the skill of before the thing taken. splitting an hair, of distinguishing without a dif- Yielding themselves upon the Turks faith, ference. Watts. for the safeguard of their liberty and goods, One and the same ray is by refraction dis- they were most injuriously spoiled of all that they turbed, shattered, dilated, and split, and spread had. Knolles, into many diverging rays. Newton. Thou shalt not gain what I deny to yield, He instances Luther's sensuality and disobe- Nor reap the harvest, though thou spoil'st the dience, two crimes which he has dealt with; field. Prior. and, to make the more solcmn shew, he split My sons their old unhappy sire despise, 'em into twenty. Atterbury. Spoild of his kingdom, and depriv'd of eyes. Oh! would it please the gods to split Popa Thy beauty, size, and ytars, and wit, 3. To corrupt; to mar; to make use. No age could furnish out a pair less. (This is properly spill; spillan, Of nymphs so graceful, wise, and fair; Saxon.] Beware lest any man spoil you, through philosophy and vain deceit. Colossians: 3. To dash and break on a rock. Spiritual pride speils many graces. Taylor. God's desertion, as a full and violent wind, Women are not only spoiled by this educadrives him in an instant, not to the harbour, but tion, but we spoil that part of the world which on the rock where he will be irrecoverably split would otherwise furnish most instances of an Decay of Piety. eminent and exalted piety. Law. Those who live by shores with joy behold TO SPOIL. v. n. England was infested with robbers and out. And seek the tempests which the others fly. laws, which, lurking in woods, used to break Dryden. Spenser. 4. To divide ; to break into discord. They which hate us soil for themselves. Psalms. In states notoriously irreligious, a secret and irresisuhle power splits their counsels, and 2. To grow useless; to be corrupted. smites their most refined policies with frustra- He that gathered a hundred bushels of acorns, tion and a curse. Soutb. or apples, had thereby a property in them: he was only to look that he used them before they TO SPLIT. v. n. spoiled, else he robbed others. Locke. 1. To burst in sunder; to crack; to suf Spon. n. s. [spolium, Lat.) fer disruption. 1. That which is taken by violence ; that A huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split which is taken from an enemy; plunder; asunder by congealed water. Boyle. pillage ; booty. Who never sail on her unfaithful sea, The cry of Talbot serves me for a sword; For I have loaden me with many spoils, Using no other weapon but his name. Sbaksp. The road that to the lungs this store transmits, 2. That which is gained by strength or Into unnumber'd narrow channels splits. effort. Blackmore. But grant our hero's hopes long toil 2. To burst with laughter. And comprehensive genius crown, Each had a gravity would make you split, Each science and each art his spoil, And shook his head at M- -y as a wit. Pope. Yet what reward, or what renown? Bentley 3. To be broken against rocks. 3. That which is taken from another. After our ship did split, When you, and the poor number sav'd with you, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Hung on our driving boat. Sbakspeare. Native perfumes, and whisper whence they These are the rocks on which the sanguine stole tribe of lovers daily split, and on which the po These balmy spoils. Milton. litician, the alchymist, and projector, are cast 4. The act of robbery ; robbery ; waste. away. Spectutor. The man that hath not musick in himself, The seamen spied a rock, and the wind was Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, so strong that we were driven directly upon Is fit for treasons, stratagens, and spails. Sbaks. it, and immediately split. Swift. Too late, alas! we find SPLI'TTER. n. s. [from split.] One who The softness of thy sword, continued through thy soil, splits. To be the only cause of unrecover'd spoil . How should we rejoice, if, like Judas the first, Dragtes. Those splitters of parsons in sunder should Go and speed! burst! Swift. Havock, and spoil, and ruin, are my gain. Milt. SPLU'TTER. n. s. Bustle ; tumult. A 5. Corruption; cause of corruption. low word. Company, villainous company, hath been the To SPOIL. v. a. (spolio, Latin ; spolier, spoil of me. Sbakspeare. I'rench.) 6. The lough ; the cast-off skin of a ser1. To seize by robbery ; to take away by pent. force. Snakes, the rather for the casting of their Vé took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, spoil, live till they be old. Bacon. knowing wat tres tuat ye have in heaven SPU'ILER. n. s. [from spoil.] an enduring substance, Hebr.ws. 1. A robber; a plunderer ; a pillager. Gentle gales, out. Such ruin of her manners Rome Sponges are gathered from the sides of rocks, Doth suffer now, as she's become being as a large but tough moss. Bacona Both her own spuikr and own prey. Ben Jonson. They opened and washed part of their sponges. Providence, where it loves a nation, concerns Sandys. itself to own and assert the interest of religion, Great officers are like sponges: they suck till by blasting the spoilers of religious persons and they are full, and, when they come once to be places. South. squeezed, their very heart's blood coines away. Came you then here, thus far, thro' waves, to L'Estrange. conquer, To SPONGE. v. a. [from the noun.] To To waste, to plunder, out of mere compassion ? blot ; to wipe away as with a sponge. Is it humanity that prompts you on? Except between the words of translation and Happy for us, and happy for you spoilers, the mind of scripture itself there be contraHad your humanity ne'er reach'd our world! diction, very little difference should not seem A. Pbilips. an intolerable blemish necessarily to be spunged 2. One who mars or corrupts any thing. Hooker. SPOʻILFUL. adj. [spoil and full.] Waste- TO SIONGE. v. n. To suck in as a sponge; ful; rapacious. to gain by mean arts: Having oft in battle vanquished The ant lives upon her own, honestly gotten; Those spoilful Picts, and swarming Easterlings, whereas the fly is an intruder, and a common Long time in peace his realm established. smell-feast, that spunges upon other people's Fairy Queen. trenchers. L'Estrange. SFOKE, n. s. [rpaca, Saxon; speiche, Ger- Here wont the dean, when he's to seek, man.] The bar of a wheel that passes To spunge a breakfast once a week. Swift. from the nave to the felly. SPO'NGER. n. so įfrom sponge.] One who All you gods, hangs for a maintenance on others. In general synod take away her power; A generous rich man, that kept a splendid Break all the spokes and fellies of her wheel, and open table, would try which were friends, And bowl the round nave down the hill of and which only trencher-flies and spungers. heav'n. Sbakspeare. L'Estrange. No heir e'er drove so fine a coach; SPO'NGINESS. n. s. [from spongy.] SoftThe spokes, we are by Ovid told, ness, and fulness of cavities, like a Were silver, and the axie gold. Swift. SPOKE. The preterit of speak. sponge. The lungs are exposed to receive all the dropThey spoke best in the glory of their conquest. pings from the brain : a very fit cistern, because Spratt. of their sponginess. Harvey. SPOʻKEN. The participle passive of speak. SPO'NGIous, adj. [spongieux, Fr. from Wouidst thou be spoken for to the king ? 2 Kings. sponge.] Full of small cavitics like a The original of these signs for communica- sponge. tion is found in viva voce, in spoken language. All thick bones are hollow or spongeous, and Holder. contain an oleaginous substance in little vesiSPO'KESMAN, n. s. [spoke and man.] One cles, which by the heat of the body is exhaled through these bones to supply their fibres. who speaks for another. Cheyne. 'T is you that have the reason. SPO'NGY. adj. [from sponge.] 1. Soft and full of small interstitial holes. Sbakspeare. The lungs are the most spongy part of the He shall be thy spokesman unto the people. body, and therefore ablest to contract and dilate Exodus. itscíf. Bacon, T: SPOʻLIATE. v. a. [spolio, Lat.) To A spongy excrescence groweth upon the roots of the laser-tree, and upon cedar, very white, rob; to plunder. Dict. Bacon, SPOLÍA'tion. n. s. [spoliation, Fr. spoo The body of the tree being very gongy with liatio, Lat.] The act of robbery or pri- in, though' hard without, they easily contrive vation. into canoes. More An ecclesiastical benefice is sometimes void de Into earth's spungy veins the ocean sinks, jare se fucts, and sometimes de facto, and not Those rivers to repienish which he drinks. de jure; as when a man sutiers a spoliation by his Denban, Aylife. Return, unhappy swain ! SPO'N DEE. n. s. [spondé?, Fr. spondieus, The spunty clouds are fill'd with gath'ring rain. Dryden. Lat.) A foot of two long syllables. We see in the choice of the words the weight Her bones are all very spongy, and more reof the stone, and the striving to heave markably those of a wild bird, which flies much, mountain: Homer clozs the verse with spondces, and long together. Grer. and leaves the vowels open. Broome. 2. Wet; drenched; soaked; full like a SPO'NI YLE.n. s. [onovdur@"; spondile, Fr. sponge. When their drench'd natures lie as in a death, spondylus, Lat.) A vertebre; a joint of What cannot you and I perform upon the spine. Th’ unguarded Duncan? What not put upon It hath for the spine or back-bone a cartilagi- His spungy officers, who shall bear the guilt? nous substance, without any spondyles, processes, Shakspeare. or protuberances. Brown. SPONK.n. s. [a word in Edinburgh which SPONGE. n. s. [spongia, Latin.) A soft denotes a match, or any thing dipt in porous substance, supposed by some the sulphur that takes fire : as, Any sponks nidus of animals. It is remarkable for will ye buy?] Touchwood. sucking up water. It is too often writ- Sro'NSAL. adj. (sponsalis, Lat.) Relating ten spunge. See SPUNGE. to marriage. Own act. up the an ounce. SPO'NSION. n. s. (sponsio, Lat.] The act When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, of becoming surety for another. My heaving wishes help to fill the sail. Dryde. SPO'NSOR. n. s. [Latin.) A surety ; one SPOON. n. s. [spaen, Dutch ; spone, who makes a promise or gives security Danish ; spoonn, Islandick.] A concave for another. vessel with a handle, used in cating In the baptism of a male there ought to be liquids. two males and one woman, and in the baptism Wouldst thou drown chyself, of a female child two women and one man; and Put but a little water in a spoon, these are called sponsors or sureties for their And it shall be as all the ocean, education in the true christian faith. Ayliffe. Enough to stifie such a villain up. Sbakspeern The sponsor ought to be of the same station This is a devil, and no monster: I will leave with the person to whom he becomes surety. him; I have no long spoor. Sbakspeare. Broome. Or o'er cold coffee title with the spoon, The rash hermit, who with impious pray'r Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon. Had been the sporsor of another's care. Harte. Popa SPONTANE'ITY.n.s. [spontaneitas, school To SPOON. v. n. In sea language, is when Lat. spontaneité, Fr. from spontaneous.] a ship, being under sail in a storm, canVoluntariness; willingness; accord un- not bear it, but is obliged to put right compelled. before the wind. Bailey. Necessity and spontaneity may sometimes meet SPO'ONBILL. n. s. [spoon and bill; platea, together, so may spontaneity and liberty; but Lat.] A bird. real necessity and true liberty can never. The shoveller, or spoombill; the former name Bramball. the more proper, the end of the bill being broad Strict necessity they simple call;, like a shovel, but not concave like a spoon, but It so binds the will, that things foreknown perfectly fiat. Grev. By spontaneity, not choice, are done. Dryden. Ducks and geese have such long broad bills SPONTANEOUS. adj. (spontanée, Fr. to quafter in water and mud; to which we may from sponte, Lat.] Voluntary; not com reckon the bill of the spoonbill. Derbara. pelled ; acting without compulsion or SPO'ONFUL. n. s. [spoon and full.] restraint ; acting of itself; acting of its 1. As much as is generally taken at once own accord. in a spoon. A medical spoonful is half Many analogal motions in animals, though I cannot call them voluntary, yet I see them spon. Prescribe him, before he do use the receipt, taneous : I have reason to conclude, that these that he take such a pill, or a spoonful of liquor, are not simply mechanical. Hale. Bacse. They now came forth 2. Any small quantity of liquid. Spontaneous; for within them spirit mov'd Milton. Attendant on their lord. Surely the choice and measure of the mate rials of which the whole body is composed, and While lohn for nine-pins does declare, what we take daily by pounds, is at least of as And Roger loves to pitch the bar, much importance as of what we take seldom, Both legs and arms spontaneous move, and only by grains and spoonfuls. Which was the thing I meant to prove. Prior. Arbuthnet. Begin with sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Spo'ONMEAT. n. s. [spoon and meat.] Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole ; Liquid food ; nourishment taken with a Spontaneous beauties all around advance, spoon. Start ev'n from difficulty, strike from chance; We prescribed a slender diet, allowing only Nature shall join you, tiine shall make it grow. spoonmeats. Wisesar. Pope. Wretched SPONTANEOUSLY.adv. [from spontane- Are mortals born to sleep their lives away! ous.) Voluntarily; of its own accord. Go back to what thy intancy began, This would be as impossible as that the lead Eat pap and spoonmeat ; for thy gugaws cry, of an edifice should naturally and spontaneously Be sullen, and refuse the lullaby. Dryden. mount up to the roof, while lighter materials Diet most upon spoon meats, as veal or cock employ themselves beneath it. Bentley: broths. Harry. Whey turns spontaneously acid, and the curd Spo'Onwort. n. s. Scurvygrass. into cheese as hard as a stone. Arbuthnot. Spoonwort was there, scorbutics to supply; SPONTANEOUSNESS. n. s. [from sponta- And centaury, to clear the jaundic'd eye. Harte. neous.] Voluntariness ; freedom of will; SPORA'DICAL. adj. (szogcoocos; sporadique, accord unforced. French.] The sagacities and instincts of brutes, the A sporadical disease is an endemial disease, spontaneousness of many of their animal motions, what in a particular season affects but few peoare not explicable, without supposing some acto ple. Arbutbnct. ive determinate power connexed to and inherent in their spirits, of a higher extraction SPORT. n. s. [spott, a make-game, Island. than the bare natural modification of matter, ick.] Hale. 1. Play; diversion ; game; frolick and Spool. n. s. [spubl, German ; spohl, tumultuous merriment. Dutch.] A small piece of cane or reed, Her sports were such as carried riches of with a knot at each end; or a piece of knowledge upon the stream of delight. Sidney. wood turned in that form to wind yarn As fies to wanton boys, are we to th' gods; They kill us for their sport. Shekspeare: upon ; a quill. When their hearts were merry, they said, call TO SPOom. v. n. (probably from spume, for Samson, that he may make us sport; and or foam, as a ship driven with violence they called for him, and he made them sport. spumes, or raises a foam.] To go on Judges. swiftly. A sea term. As a mad-man who casteth firebrands, arrows, If I Wottor. imd death, so is the man that deceiveth his SPO'RTFUL. adj. [sport and full.] neighbour, and saith, am not I in sport? 1. Merry; frolick; wanton; acting in Proverbs. jest. How with a sportful malice it was follow'd, sport is in the wantonness of sin. Ecclesiasticus. May rather pluck on laughter than revenge. 2. Mock; contemptuous mirth. Sbakspeare suspect without cause, why then make Down he alights among the sportful nerd sport at me, then let me be your jest. Sbaksp. Of those four-footed kinds. Milton. They had his messengers in derision, and made a spori of his prophets. 1 Esdras. 2. Ludicrous ; done in jest. His highness, even in such a slight and sportTo make sport with his word, and to endeavour to render it ridiculous, by turning that holy ful damage, had a noble sense of just dealing. book into raillery, is a direct affront to God. Behold your own Ascanius, while he said, Tillotson. He drew his glitt'ring helmet from his head, 3. That with which one plays. In which the youth to sportful arms he led. Each on his rock transfix'd, the sport and prey Dryden. Of vrecking whirlwinds. Milton. They are no sportful productions of the soil, Commit not thy prophetick mind but did once belong to real and living fishes To fitting leaves, the sport of every wind, seeing each of them doth exactly resemble some Lest they disperse in air. Dryden. other shell on the sea-shore. Bentleg. Some grave their wrongs on marble; he, more A catalogue of this may be had in Albericus just, Gentilis; which, because it is too sportful, I forStoop'd down serene, and wrote them on the bear to mention. Baker. dust, SPO'RT PULLY. adv. [from sportful.] Trod under foot, the sport of ev'ry wind, Swept from the earth, and blotted from his Wantonly; merrily. mind; SPO'RTFULNESS. n. s. [from sportful.) There secret in the grave he bade them lie, Wantonness ; play ; merriment ; froAnd griev'd they could not 'scape th'Almighty's lick. eye. Dr. Madden on Bp. Boulder. The otter got out of the river, and in weeded 4. Play; idle gingle. himself so, as the ladies lost the further marking An author who should introduce such a sport of his sportfulness. Sidney. of words upon our stage, would meet with small SPO'RTIVE. adj. [from sport.) Gay ; applause. Broome. merry; frolick; wanton; playful; lua 5. Diversion of the field, as of fowling, dicrous. hunting, fishing I am not in a sportive humour now; Now for our mountain sport, up to yon hill, Tell me, and dally not, where is the money? Your legs are young. Sbakspeare. Sbadspeare.' The king, who was excessively affected to Is it I hunting, and the sports of the field, had a great That drive thee from the sportive court, where desire to make a great park, for red as well as thou fallow deer, between Richmond and Hampton Wast shot at with fair eyes, to be the mark Court. Clarendon. Of smoky muskets? Sbakspeare. TO SPORT. v. a. (from the noun.] While thus the constant pair alternate said, 1. To divert; to make merry. It is used Joyful above them and around them play'd only with the reciprocal pronoun. Angels and sportive loves, a numerous crowd, The poor man wept and bled, cried and Smiling they clapt their wings, and low they bow'd. Prior. prayed, while they sported themselves in his pain, and delighted in his prayers, as the argument of We must not hope wholly to change their their victory; Sidney. original tempers; nor make the gay pensive and Away with him, and let her sport berself grave, nor the melancholy sportive, without With that she's big with. Locke. Sbakspeare. spoiling them. Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against No wonder savages or subjects slain, whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the Were equal crimes in a despotick reign; tongue ? Isaiab. Both doom'd alike for sportive tyrants bled, What pretty stories these are for a man of his But subjects starv'd while savages were fed. seriousness to sport bimself withal! Atterbury. Let such writers go on at their dearest peril, SpO'RTIVENESS. n. s. [from sportive.] and sport themselves in their own deceivings. Gayety; play; wantonness. Watts. Shall I conclude her to be simple, that has her 2. To represent by any kind of play. time to begin, or refuse sportiveness as freely Now sporting on thy lyre the love of youth, as I have? Walton. Now virtuous age and venerable truth; SPO'RTSMAN. n. so [sport and man.] One Expressing justly Sappho's wanton art who pursues the recreations of the field. Of odes, and Píndar's more majestick part. Manilius lets us know the pagan hunters had Dryden. Meleager for their patron, as the christians have their St. Hubert: he speaks of the constellation 1. To play ; to frolick; to game; to which makes a good sportsman. Addison. wanton. SPOʻRTULE, n. s. [sportule, Fr. sportula, They, sporting with quick glance, Lat.] An alms; a dole. Shew to the sun their wav'd coats dropt with The bishops, who consecrated the ground, had Milton. Larissa, a spill or sportule from the credulous laity. as she sported at this play, was drowned in the river Peneus. Broome. Ayliffe. 2. To trifle. SPOT. n. so [spette, Danish ; sporte, If any man turn religion into raillery, by hold Flemish.] jests, he renders himself ridiculous, because he 1. A blot; a mark made by discolorasports with his own life. Tillotson, tion. Pope. TO SPORT. V. n. gold. This three years day, these eyes, thougii clear This vow receive, this vow of God maintain, To outward view of blemish or of spot, My virgin life no spotted thoughts shall stain. Bereft of sight, their seeing have forgot. Milt. Sidney. • A long series of ancestors shews the native The people of Armenia have retained the Lustre with advantage; but if he any way de- christian faith from the time of the apostles; but generate from his line, the least spot is visible at this day it is spotted with many absurdities, on ermine. Dryden. Abbele 2. A taint; a disgrace; a reproach ; a SPOʻTLESS. adj. [from spot.] fault. 1. Free from spots. Yet Chloe sure was form’d without a spot ; T is true, but something in her was forgot. 2. Free from reproach or impurity; imPote. maculate; pure ; untainted. 3. I know not well the meaning of spot in So much fairer this place, unless it be a scandalous And spotless shall nine innocence arise, When the king knows my truth. Shakspeare. woman, a disgrace to her sex. Let him take thee, I dare my life lay down, that the queen is And hoist thee up to th' shouting plebeians ; spotless Follow his chariot, like the greatest spot In th' eyes of Heaven. Shakspeare You grac'd the sev'ral parts of life, Of all thy sex. Shakspeere. A spotless virgin, and a faultless wife. "Waller. 4. A small extent of place. We sometimes wish that it had been our lot That spot to which I point is paradise, to live and converse with Christ, to hear his Adam's abode ; those lofty shades his bow'r. divine discourses, and to observe his spotless beMilton. haviour; and we please ourselves perhaps with He who, with Plato, shall place beatitude in thinking, how ready a reception we should have the knowicdge of God, will have his thoughts given to him and his doctrine. Atterbury. rused to other contemplations than those who Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, booked not beyond this spoi of earth, and those Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign'd. perishing things in it. Locke. Popes About one of these breathing passages is a spot S PO'TTER. N. s. [from spot.] One that of myrtles, that flourish within the steam of these vapours. Addison. spots; one that maculates. Abdullah converted the whole mountain into Szo'rt Y. adj. [from spot.] Full of spots; a kind of garden, and covered every part of it maculated. wish plantations or spots of flowers. Guardian. The moon, whose orb He that could make two ears of corn grow Through optick glass the Tuscan artist views upon a spot of ground where only one grew In Valonbrosa to descry new lands, before, would deserve better of mankind than Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. Mili. the whole race of politicians. Swift. Spou's A L. adj. [from spouse.) Nuptial; $. Any particular place. matrimonial ; conjugal; connubial ; I would be busy in the world, and learn; bridal. Not, like a coarse and useless dunghill weed, Fix'd to one spot, and rot just as I grow. There shall we consummate our spousal rites Otway. Sbalspeare As in this grove I took my last farewel, Hope's chaste kiss wrongs no more joy's As on this very spot of earth I fell, maidenhead, So she my prey becomes ev'n here. Dryden. Than spousal rites prejudice the marriage bed. Crasbaw, Granville, Milton The Dutch landscapes are, I think, always a Spousal embraces vitiated with gold. representation of an individual spot, and each in Sleep’st thou, careless of the nuptial day? its kind a very faithful, but very contined, Thy spousal ornament neglected lies; portrait. Reynalds. Arise, prepare the bridal train, arise. Pope. 6. Upon the spot. Immediately; without Spou's AL. n. s. [espausailles, Fr. sponsalia, changing place. [sur le champ. ] Lat.] Marriage; nuptials. The lion did not chop him up immediately As man and wife, being two, are one in love, upon the spot; and yet he was resolved he should So be there 'twixt your kingdoms such a. a spausal, pot escape. L'Estrange. That never may ill office, or fell jealousy, It was determined upon the spot, according as Thrust in between the paction of these king. the oratory on either side prevailed. Swift. doms, Ta Spol. v. a. (from the noun.] To make divorce of their incorporate league. 3. To mark with discolorations; to macu Sbakspeare. late. The amorous bird of night They are polluted off'rings, more abhorr'd Sung spousal, and bid haste the ev'ning star, Than spotted livers in the sacrifice. Slaakspeare. On his hill top to light the bridai lamp. Milsen. Have you not seen a handkerchiet, spousals of Hippolita the queen, What tilts and tourneys at the feasi were seen! Spotted with strawberries, in your wife's hand? Dryden. Sbakspeare. Etherial musick did her death prepare, But serpents now more amity maintain; Like joyful sounds of spousals in the air: From spot:end skins the leopard does refrain ; A radiant light did her crown'd temples gild. No weaker lion's by a stronger slain. Tate. Dryden. 2. To patch by way of ornament. I counted the patches on both sides, and found SPOUSE. n. s. (sponsa, sponsus, Latin ; the tory patches to be about twenty stronger espouse, French.] One joined in marthan the whis: but next morning the whole riage; a husband or wife. puppet-show was filled with faces spotted after She is of good esteem; the whiggish manner. Speitator. Beside, so qualified as may bescem 3. To corrupt; to disgrace; to taint. The spouse of any noble gentleman Sbakspeare. |