! SPRI'NGLF. n. s. [from spring.) A springe; When dext'rous damsels twirl the sprinkling an elastick noose. mop, Woodcocks arrive first on the north coast, And cleanse the spatter'd sash, and scrub the where every plash-shoot serveth for springles to stairs, Carew. Gay. To JPRI'NGLE. v. a. Misprinted, I sup- SPRINALER, n. s. [from sprinkle.] One pose, for sprinkle. that sprinkles. To Sprit. v. a. [rpnýtzan, Sax. spruze ten, Dutch.) To ihrow out; to eject Your reeking villany. Sbakspeare, with force. Commonly spirt. SPRI'NGTIDE. n. s. [spring and tide.] Toads sometimes cxclude or sprit out a dark and liquid matter behind, and a venomous conTide at the new and full moon; high dition there may be perhaps therein ; but it cantide. not be called their urine. Brown. TO SPRIT. V. n. To shoot; to germinate; to sprout. Used of barley wetted for Till they quite shrink in again : malt. If a flow in age appear, SPRIT. n. s. [from the verb.] Shoot; 'T is but rain, and runs not clear. Dryden. sprout. The barley, after it has been couched four days, will sweat a little, and shew the chit or tide. Grew. sprit at the root-end of the corn. Mortimer. SPRI'NG Y. adj. [from springe.] Spri’rsall, n. so (sprit and sail.] The 1. Elastick; having the power of restor- sail which belongs to the boltsprit mast. ing itself. Dirt. Had not the Maker wrought the springy Our men quitted themselves of the fireship, by frame, cutting the spritsail tackle off with their short Such as it is, to fan the vital flame, hatchets. Wiseman. A spirit; an incorporeal agent. The sprites of fiery termaganes in flame Mount up, and take a salamander's name. Pepe. Of these am I who thy protection claim A watchful sprite, and Ariel is my name. Pope. intelligible, by feigning the particles of air to be SPRITEFULLY. adr. (See SPRIGHT. springy and ramous, or rolled up like hoops, or by any other means than a repulsive power. FULI.Y.] Vigorously; with life and Newton. ardour. Though the bundle of fibres which constitute The Grecians spritefully drew from the darts the muscles may be small, the fibres may be strong and springy. Arbutónot. And hearst it, bearing it to feet. Cbapman. If our air had not been a springy body, no ani- SPRITELY. adv. from sprite. ) Gayly. mal could have exercised the very function of You have not seene young heifférs, highly respiration; and yet the ends of respiration are kept, not served by that springiness, but by some other Fil'd full of daisies at the field, and driven unknown quality. Bentley Home to their hovels; all so spritely given, 2. [from spring.] Full of springs or foun. That no roome can containe them. Chapraan. tains. Not used. SPRONG. The old pret. of spring. Where the sandy or gravelly lands are springy Not mistrusting, till these new curiosities or wet, rather marl them for grass than corn. sprong up, that ever any man would think our Mortimer. labour herein mispent, or the time wastefully To SPRI'NKLE.v. a. [sprinkelen, Dutch.) consumed. Hocker. TO SPROUT. v. 1. 1. To scatter; to disperse in small masses. [rpnýttan, Saxon ; Take handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let spruyten, Dutch. Sprout, sprit, and Moses sprinkle it towards the heaven. Exodus. by a very frequent transposition spirt or 2. To scatter in drops. spurt, are all the same word.] Sprinkle water of purifying upon them. 1. To shoot by vegetation ; to germinate. Numbers. The sprouting leaves that saw you here, 3. To besprinkle ; to wash, wet, or dust And cali'd their fellow's to the sight. Cerrir by scattering in small particles. Try whether these things in the sprouting do Let us draw near with a true heart, in full increase weight, by weighing them before they assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled are hanged up; and afterwards again, when they from an evil conscience. Hebrews. are sprouted. Becor. Wings he wore That leaf faded, but the young buds spreured Of many a colour'd plume sprinkled with gold. on, which afterwards opened into fair leaves. Milton. Bacon. The prince, with living water sprinkled o'er We find no security to prevent germination, His limbs and body; then approach'd the door, having made trial of grains, whose ends, cut off, Possess'd the porch. Dryden. have not withstanding sprouted. Broren, Old Baucis is by oid Philemon seen TO SPRI'N KLE. v. n. To perform the act Sprouting with sudden leaves of sprightly green. of scattering in small drops. Dryda. The priest shall sprinkle of the oil with his Hence sprouting plants enrich the plain and finger. Leviticus, wood; Baptism may well enough be performed by For physick some, and some design'd for food. sprinkling, or effusion of water. Aylife. Blackswers the corse, wars. 3. To grow store. Popes Envied Britannia, sturdy as the oak SPRU'CELY. adr. [from spruce.) In a Eludes the ax, and sprouts against the stroke, SPRU'CENESS. n. s. [from spruce.] Neat- ness without elegance. Rub mait between your hands to get the come SPRUNG. The pret. and part. pass. of or sprouting clean away. Mortimer. spring. 2. To shout into ramifications. Tall Norrvay for their masts in battle spent, Vitriol is ape to sprout with moisture. Bacon. And English oaks sprung leaks and planks, re Dryden. Th’enliv'ning dust its head begins to rear, Now from beneath Maleas' airy height And on the ashes sprouting plumes appear. Aloft she sprung, and steer'd to Thebes her Tickl. flight. Pope. SPROUT, 1. s. [from the verb.] A shoot Who spring from kings shall know less joy than I. of a vegetable. Stumps of trees, lying out of the ground, will SPRUNT, n. s. Any thing that is short put forth sprouts for a time. Bacon. and will not easily bend. Early, ere the odorous breath of morn SPUD. 1.5. A short knife ; any short thick Awakes the slumbering leaves, or tasseld horn thing, in contempt. Shakes the high thicket, haste I all about, My love to Sheelah is more firmly fixt Number my ranks, and visit every sprout. Than strongest weeds that grow these stones Milton. betwixt : To this kid, taken out of the womb, were My spud these nettles from the stones can part, brought in the tender sprouts of shrubs; and, No knife so keen to weed thee from my heart. after it had tasted, it began to eat of such as are Swift. the usual food of goats. Ray. SPU'LLERS of Yarn. n. s. [perhaps proSPROUTS. 1. s. pl. [from sprout.] Young perly spoolers.] Are such as are employe coleworts. ed to see that it be well spur, and fit SPRUCE. adj. [Skinner derives this word for the loom. Dict. from preux, French; but he proposes it SPUME. n. s. [spuma, Latin.] Foam ; with hesitation : Junius thinks it comes froth. from sprout : Casaubon trifles yet more Materials dark and crude, contemptibly. I know not whence to Of spirituous and fiery spuime, till touch'd deduce it, except from pruce. In an With heaven's ray, and temper'd, they shoot forth cient books we find furniture of pruce So beauteous, op'ning to the ambient light. a thing costly and elegant, and thence Milton, probably came spruce.) Nice; trim; Waters frozen in pans, after their dissolution, neat without elegance. It was anciently leave a froth and spume upon them, which are used of things with a serious meaning ; caused by the airy parts diffused by the congeal able mixture. Brown. it is now used only of persons, and with levity. To SPUME. v. n. (spumo, Latin.] To The tree foam; to froth. That wraps that crystal in a wooden tomb, Shall be took up spruce, till’d with diamond. SPU’Mous. adj. [spumeus, Latin; from Donne. SPU'MY. the noun.] Frothy; foamy. Thou wilt not leave me in the middle street, The cause is the putrefaction of the body by Tno' some more spruce companion thou dost unnatural heat: the putrifying parts suffer a Donne. turgescence, and becoming airy and spumous, Along the crisped shades and bow'rs ascend into the surface of the water. Brown, Revels the spruce and jocund spring; Not with more madness, rolling from afar, The graces, and the rosy-bcsom'd hours, The spumy waves proclaim the wat'ry war; Thither all their bounties bring. Milton. And mounting upwards with a mighty roar, I must not slip into too spruce a style for se- March onwards, and insult the rocky shore. rious matters; and yet I approve not that dull Dryden. insipid way of writing practised by many chy- The spumous and forid state of the blood, in mists. Doyle. passing through the lungs, arises from its own He put his band and beard in order, elasticity, and its violent motion, the aerial para The sprucer to accost and board lier. Hudibras, ticles expanding themselves. Arbuthnot, He is so spruce, that he never can be genteel. Tuller. SPUN. The pret. and part: pass. of spin: This Tim makes a strange figure with that The nymph nor spun, nor dress'd with artful ragged coat under his livery: can't he go spruce pride; aud clean! Arbuthnot. Her vest was gather’d up, her hair was tied. TO SPRUCE. V. n. (from the adjective.] Addison To dress with affected neatness. SPUNGE. s. [spongia, Latin.) A SPRUCE. X. s. A species of fir. sponge. See SPONGE. SPRUCE BE'ER. n. so [from spruce, a kind When he needs what you have gleaned, it is of fir.) Beer tinctured with branches but squeezing you, and, spunge, you shall be Shakspeare. la ulcers of the kidneys, sprucebeer is a good Considering the motion that was impressed by balsamick. the painter's hand upon the spunge, compounded Arbutbrot. SPRU'CE LEATHER. n. s. (corrupted for with the specifick gravity of the spunge, and the resistance of the air, the spunge did mechani. Prussian leather.] dinsworth. cally and unavoidably move in that particular Tas lea:ber was of Prura Dryden. line of motion. T2 meet. n. of fir. Bentley the spur. To SPUNGE. v. 1. [rather To sponge.] 3. A stimulus; a prick; any thing that To hang on others for maintenance. galls and teases. This will maintain you, with the perquisite of Grief and patience, rooted in him both, spunging while you are young. Savift. Mingle their spurs together. Sbakspeare. SPU'NGINGHOUSE. s. [spunge and 4. The sharp points on the legs of a cock house.] A house to which debtors are with which he fights. taken before commitment to prison, Of birds the bill is of like matter with the where the bailiffs sponge upon them, or teeth: as for their spur, it is but a nail. Bacon. riot at their cost. Animals have natural weapons to defend and A bailiff kept you the whole evening in a offend; some talons, some claws, some spurs and beaks. Ray. spunginghorse. Swift. SPU'NGY. adj. [from spunge.] 5. Any thing standing out; a snag. The strong-bas'd promontory 1. Full of small holes, and soft like a Have I made shake, and pluckt up by the spurs sponge. The pine and cedar. Sbakspeare. Some English wool, vex'd in a Belgian loom, To Spur. v. a. [from the noun.] And into cloth of spundy softness made, Did into France or colder Denmark roam, 1. To prick with the spur; to drive with To ruin with worse air our staple trade. Dryd. 2. Wet ; moist ; watery. My friend, who always takes care to cure his I saw Jove's bird, the Roman eagle, wing'd horse of starting tits, spurred him up to the very side of the coach. Aduison. From the spuney south to this part of the west, There vanish'd in the sun-beams. Shakspeare. Your father, when he mounted, Rein'd 'em in strongly, and he spurr’d them 3. Having the quality of imbibing. hard. Dryden. There is no lady of more softer bowels, Who would be at the trouble of learning, More spungy to suck in the sense of fear. Shaks. when he finds his ignorance is caressed? But SPUNK. n. 5. Rotten wood; touchwood. when you brow-beat and maul them, you make See SPONK. them men; for though they have no natural To make white powder, the best way is by mettle, yet, if they are spurred and kicked, the powder of rotten willows: spunk, or touch- they will mend their pace. Colier. wood prepared, might perhaps niake it russet. 2. To instigate; to incite ; to urge for Brown. ward. SPUR. n. s. [rpura, Saxon; spore, Dan Lovers break not bours, ish, Islandick, and Dutch ; esperon, Unless it be to come before their time: French.] So much they spur their expedition. Sbakip. 1. A sharp point fixed in the rider's heel, Let the awe he has got upon their minds be with which he pricks his horse to drive so tempered with the marks of good-will, that him forward. affection may spur them to their duty. Looke. He borrowing that homely armour for want 3. To drive by force. Love will not be spurr'd to what it loaths. of a better, had come upon the spur to redeem Sbakspeare Philoclea's picture. Whether the body politick be 1. To travel with great expedition. Who, newly in the seat, that it may know With backward bows the Parthians shall be He can command it, lets it straight feel the there, spur. Shakspeare. And, spurring from the fight, confess their fear: He presently set spurs to his horse, and de A double wreath shall crown our Cæsar's brows. parted with the rest of the company. Knolles. Dryden. Was I for this intitled Sir, 2. To press forward. And girt with rusty sword and spar, Ascanius took th' alarm, while yet he led, For fame and honour to wage battle? Hudibras. And, spurring on, his equals soon o'erpass'd. 2. Incitement; instigation. It is used with Drydeni to before the cffect. Dryden has used Some bold men, though they begin with init with of; but, if he speaks properly, finite ignorance and errour, yer, by spurring on, retine themselves. Grecu. he means to make the following word personal. SPU'R GALLED. adj. [spur and gall.] Hurt Seeing then that nothing can move, unless with the spur. there be some end, the desire whereof provoketh I was not made a borse, unto motion, how should that divine power of And yet I bear a burthen like an ass, the soul, that spirit of our mind, ever sur itself Spurgail'd and tir’d by jaunting Bolingbrake. into action, unless it have also the like spur? Sbaksfears Huoker. What! shall each spurgall’d hackney of the What need we any spur, but our own cause, day, To prick us to redress? Sbakspeare. Or each new-pension'd sycophant, pretend His laws are deep, and not vulgar; not made To break my windows, if I treat a friend ? Pops upon the spur of a particular occasion, but out Spurge. n. s. [espurge, Fr. spurgie, Dut. of providence of the future, to make his people from purgo, Lai.] A plant violently more and more happy. Bacon, Reward is the spur of virtue in all good arts, purgative. Spurge is a general name in all laudable attempts; and emulation, which is English for all milky purgative plants. the other spur, will never be wanting, when par Skinner. ticular rewards are proposed. Dryden. Every part of the plant abounds with a milky The chief, if not only, spur to human industry juice. There are seventy-one species of this and action, is uneasiness. Locke. plant, of which wartwort is one. Broad-leaved' The former may be a spur to the latter, till spurge is a biennial plant, and used in medicine age makes him in love with the study, without under the name of cataputia minor. The milky any childish bait. Cbeyic. juice in these plants is used by some to destroy Sidney. TO SPUR. V. N. warts; but particular care should be taken in 3. To treat with contempt. Miller, when they find themselves not spurned because fortune las laid thein at their masters feet. plucked upwards or downwards, perform their Locke. operations by purge or vomit, is a strange con- T, SPURN. v. n. ceit, ascribing unto plants positional operations. Brown. 1. To make contemptuous opposition; to SPURGE Flax. n. s. [thy melca, Lat.] A make insolent resistance. plant. A son to blunt the sword SPURGE Laurel or Mezereon. n. s. [chama That guards the peace and safety of your person; Nay more, to spurn at your most royal image. daphne, Lat.) A plant. Sbakspeare. SPURGE Olive. n. s. [chamælea, Lat.] A 1, Pandulph, do religiously demand shrub. Why thou against the church, our holy mother, SPURGE Wort. n. s. [xiphion, Lat.) A So wilfully dost spurn? Shakspeare. plant. Instruct me why Vanoc should spurn against our rule, and stir SPURIOUS. adj. [spurius, Latin.] The tributary provinces to war. Pbilips. 1. Not genuine ; counterfeit; adulterine. 2. To toss up the heels; to kick or Reformed churches reject not all traditions, struggle. but such as are spurious, superstitious, and not The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns, consonant to the prime rule of faith. W bite. The glasses shatters, and his charge o'erturns. The coin that shows the first is generally re Gay. jected as spurious, nor is the other esteemed SPURN. n. s. [from the verb.] Kick; more authentick by the present Roman medalists. Addison. insolent and contemptuous treatment. The insolence of office, and the spurns If any thing else has been printed, in which we really had any hand, it is loaded with spre That patient merit ofth' unworthy takes, Shaks. rious additions. Swift. SPU'RNEY. n. s. A plant. 2. Not legitimate ; bastard. SPU'RRER, N. s. [from spur.] One who Your Scipios, Cæsars, Pompeys, and your uses spurs. Catos, SPU'RRJER, n. s. [from spur.] One who Of violated maids. makes spurs. Addison. SPU'RIOUSNE3s. n. s. [from spurious. ] SPU’rry. n. s. [spergula, Lat.) A plant. Adulterateness; state of being coun To SPURT. v. n. (See To Spirt.) To terfeit. Ry out with a quick stream. You proceed to Hippolytus, and speak of his íf from a puncture of a lancet, the manner of spuriousness with as much contidence as if you the spurting out of the blood will shew it. were able to prove it. Waterland, Wiseman. SPU'RLING. n. s. [esperlan, Fr.] A small SPU'R WAY. n. s. [spur and way.) A horse-way; a bridle road: distinct from All-sain's, do lay for porke and sowse, a road for carriages. For sprats and spårlings for your house. Tusser. SPUTATION, K. s. isputum, Lat.] The To SPURN. 1'. a. [spornan, Saxon.] act of spitting. 1. To kick; to strike or drive with the A moist consumption receives its nomencla. foot. ture from a moist sputativo, or expectoration : a They suppos'd I could rend bars of steel, dry one is known by its dry coughi. Harvey. And spurn in pieces posts of adamiant. Sbalsp. To SPUTTER. v. n. (sputo, Latin.] Say my request 's unjust, 1. To emit moisture in small flying drops. 'Thou art not honest. Sbakspeare: If a manly drop or two fall down, You that did void your rheum upon my beard, It scalds along my cheeks, like the green wood, And foot me as you s:n a stranger cur That, spuitring in the fame, works outwards Over your threshold. Slakspeare. Dryden. He in the surging smoke 2. To fly out in small particles with soine Uplifted spurn'd the ground. Milion. noise. So was I forid The nightly virgin, while her wheel she plies, To do a sovereiga justice to invscif, Foresees the storms impending in the skies, And spurn thee froin my presence. Dryden. When sparkling lamps their sputt'ring light adThen will I draw up my legs, and spurn her vance, from me with my foot. Spectator. And in the sockets oily bubbles dance. Dryden. A milk-white buill shall at your altars stand, 3. To speak hastily and obscurely, as with That threats a fight, and spirns the rising sand. the mouth full; to throw out the spittle Pupe. When Athens sinks by fates unjust, by hasty specch. When wild barbarians spurn ber dust. A pinking owl sat sputtering at the sun, and Now they, who reach Parnassus' lofty cro:vn, asked him what he meant, to stand staring her Imploy their pains to spurn some others down. in the eyes? L'Estrange. Pups. They could neither of them speak their rage; 2. To reject ; to scorn; to put away with and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples. Congreve. contempt; to disdain. Though he sputter through a session, In wisdom I should ask your name; It never makes the least impression; But since thy outside looks so fair and warlike, Whate'er he speaks for madness goes. What safe and nicely ! might well delay, Szift. By rule of knighthood, i čisdain and spurn. To SPU'TTER. v. a. To throw out with noise and hesitation. sea fish. into tears Stupare. Thou dost with lies the throne invade; Moses sent to spy out Jaazear, and took the Obtending heav'n for whate'er ills befall, villages. Numbers, And souli'ring under specious names thy gall. To Spy. v.n. To search narrowly. Dryden. It is my nature's plague In the midst of caresses, and without the least To spy into abuse; and oft my jealousy pretended incitement, to spultir out the basest Shapes faults that are not. Sbakspeare. accusa:ions ! Szeift. Spy'BO A1, n. s. [spy and boat.] A boat SPU'TTER. n. s. Moisture thrown out in sent out for intelligence. small drops. Giving the colour of the sea to their spobeats, Sru'r1ERER, n. s. [from sputter.] One to keep them from being discovered, came from ihat putters. the Veneri. Arbutbret. SPY. n. s. [yspio, Welsh ; espion, French; SQU. B. adj. [I know not whence despie, Duic! ; specw.ator, Latin. It is rived.] obserred by a German, tiat s'y has been 1. Urteathered; newly hatched. in all ages a word by which the eye, or Why niust old pigeons, and they stale, be drest, office of the eye, has been expitised: When there 's so many squad ones in the rest? thus the Arinaspians of old, fabled to King. have but one eye, were so called froin 2. Fat; thick and stout; awkwardly bulky. The many ale goes round; ari, which among the nations of Cou Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice, casus still signifies one, and spi, wliich Each health the youths began, Sim pledg'd it has been received from the old Asiatick twice. Betterton. languages for an eye, sight, or one that SQUAB. 1. S. A kind of sofa or couch ; sees.] One sent to watch the conduct a stuffed cushion. or motions of others; one sent to gain On her large squab you find her spread, intelligence in an enemy's camp or Like a fat corpse upon a bed. Szeift. country: SQUAB. odz'. With a heavy sudden fall, 'We'll hear poor rogues plump and Aat. A low word. Talk of court news, and we'll talk with them The eagle took the tortoise up into the air, too, and dropt him down, squal, upon a rock, that And take upon 's the mystery of things, dashed him to pieces. L'Estrange. As if we were God's spies. Svakspeare. To SQUAB. V. n. To fall down plump Spies of the Volscians or fiat; to squelsh or squash. Held me in chace, that I was forc'd to wheel Squa'rBISH. adj. [from squab.] Thick; Three or four miles about. Sbakspeare. Every corner was possessed by diligent spies heavy; Aeshy: upon their master and mistress. Clarendon. Diet renders them of a squabbish or lardy haI come no spy, bit of body. Harvey. With purpose to explore, or to disturb, TO SQUABBLE. v. n. [kiabla Swedish.] The secrets of your realm. Milton. To quarrel; to debate peevishly; to Such command we had, To see that none thence issued forth a spy, wrangle; to fight. A low word. Or enery, while God was in his work. Wilton. Drunk? and speak parrot? and squabble? Nothing lies hid from radiant eyes; swagger ? oh, thou invincible spirit of wine! All they subdue become their spies : Sbakspeare Secrets, as chosen jewels, are I thought it not improper, in a squabbling and Presented to oblige the fair. Waller. contentious age, to detect the vanity of contidOver my men I'll set my careful spies, ing ignorance. Glanvill. To watch rebellion in their very eyes. Dryden. If there must be disputes, is not squabbling Those wretched spies of wit must then con less inconvenient than murder? Collier. fess, The sense of these propositions is very plain, They take more pains to please themselves the though logicians might squabble a whole day, less. Dryden. whether they should rank them under negative Those who attend on their state, are so many or aflirmative. Watts. spies placed upon them by the publick to obe S01b8L2.1.5. (from the verb.] A low serve them nearly. Atterbury: brawl; a petty quarrel. TO SPY. v. a. (See Spy.] In popular factions, pragmatick fools commonly 1. To discover by the eye at a distance, or begin the squelvic, and crafty knaves reap the benefit. L'Estrange in a state of concealment ; to espy. A man whose personal courage is suspected, is Light hath no tongac, but is all eye; not to drive squadrens before him; but may be If it could speak as well as spy, allowed ihe nicrit cf some squabile, or throwing This were the worst that it could say, a bottle at his neighbour'shiedu. Arbatbrei. That being well I fain would stay. Denne. SQCA'BBLER. 11. s. [frum squabble.] A Astyger spied two gentle fawns. Milton. A countryman spied a snake under a hede, Salabei't, n. s. [squab and pie.) A pie quarrelsome fellow; a brawler. half frozen to death. L'Estrange My brother Guyomar, merhinks, I sov; ma le of many ingredients: Haste in his steps, and wonder in his eye. Cornwal squiabpie, and Devon whitepot brings; Üryden. And Leister beans and bacon, food of kings. One in reading skipped over all sentences King where he spied a note of admiration. Suiji. SQUADRON. n. s. (escadron, Fr. squit2. To discover by close examination. drone, Ital. from quadratus, Latin.] Let a lawyer tell he has spied some difect in 1. À body of men drawn up square. an entail, how solicitous are they to repair tinat Tlaose half-rounding guards errour! Dizay of Picty. Just me:, and closing stood in squadron join'd. 3. To search or discover by artifict. Bilten. a |