SPHERICAL. adj. [spherique, Fr. from 2. A small quantity, as of spice to the SPICO'SITY. n. s. [spica, Lat.] The SPHERICK. sphere.] . Round; orbicular; globular. What descent of waters could there be in a spherical and round body, wherein there is nor higli nor Raleigh. low? Though sounds spread round, so that there is an orb or spherical area of the sound, yet they go farthest in the forelines from the first local impulsion Bacon. of the air. By discerniment of the moisture drawn up in vapours, we must know the reason of the spherical figures of the drops. Glanville. A fluid mass necessarily falls into a spherical surface. Keil. Where the central nodule was globular, the inner surface of the first crust would be spherick; and if the crust was in all parts of the same thickness, that whole crust would be spherical. Woodward. 2. Planetary; relating to the orbs of the planets. We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains by spherical predominance. Shakesp SPHERICALLY. adv. [from spherical.] In form of a sphere. SPHERICALNESS. n. s. [from sphere.] SPHERICITY. Roundness; rotundity. thing seasoned. Think what they have done, And then run stark mad; for all Thy by-gone fooleries were but spices of it. Shakesp. It containeth singular relations, not without some spice or sprinkling of all learning. To Brown's Vulgar Errours. So in the wicked there 's no vice, Of which the saints have not a spice. Hudibras SPICE. v. a. [from the noun.] To season with spice; to mix with aromatick bodies. His mother was a vot'ress of my order, And in the spiced Indian air by night Full often she hath gossip'd by my side. Shakesp. With a festivall She'll first receive thee; but will spice thy bread With flowrie poysons. Chapman. These hymns may work on future wits, and so May great-grandchildren of thy praises grow; And so, though not revive, embalm and spice The world, which else would putrify with vice. Donne. What though some have a fraught Of cloves and nutmegs, and in cinnamon sail, If thou hast wherewithal to spice a draught, When griefs prevail? Herbert. SPICER. n. s. [from spice.] One who deals in spice. Names have been derived from occupations, as Camden. Salter and Spicer. SPICERY. n. s. [espiceries, Fr. from spice.] The commodity of spices. Such bodies receive their figure and limits from such lets as hinder them from attaining to that sphericalness they aim at. Digby. Water consists of small, smooth, spherical par-1. ticles: their smoothness makes 'em slip easily upon one another; the sphericity keeps 'em from touching one another in more points than one. Cheyne's Philosophical Principles. SPHEROID. n. s. [opaiga and de; =spheroide, Fr.] A body oblong or oblate, approaching to the form of a sphere. They are not solid particles, by the necessity they are under to change their figures into oblong sphe roids, in the capillary vessels. Cheyne's Phil. Prin. SPHEROIDICAL. adj. [from spheroid.] Having the form of a spheroid. If these corpuscles be spheroidical, or oval, their shortest diameters must not be much greater than those of light. Cheyne. SPHE RULE. n. s. [sphærula, Lat.] A little globe. Mercury is a collection of exceeding small, vastly heavy spherules. Cheyne's Philosophical Principles. SPHINX. n. s. [opiy] The sphinx was a famous monster in Egypt, that remained by conjoined Nilus, having the face of a virgin, and the body of a lion. Peach. on Drawing. SPIAL. n. s. [espial, Fr.] A spy; a scout; a watcher. Obsolete. His ears be as spials, alarum to crie. Tuss. Husb. To weet what course he takes, and how he fares. 2. Their camels were loaden with spicery, and balm and myrrh. Raleigh's History of the World. She in whose body The western treasure, eastern spicery, Europe and Africk, and the unknown rest, Were easily found. A repository of spices. Donne. The spicery, the cellar and its furniture, are too well known to be here insisted upon. Add. on Italy. SPICK and SPAN. [This word I should not have expected to have found authorized by a polite writer. Span-new is used by Chaucer, and is supposed to come from rpannan to stretch, Sax. expandere, Lat. whence span. Span-new is therefore originally used of cloth new extended or dressed at the clothiers, and spick and span is newly extended on the spikes or tenters: it is however a low word.] Quite new; now first used. While the honour thou hast got burnet. Spenser. Fairfax. They would have these reduced then others created spick and span not thing. I keep no antiquated stuff; But spick and spun l'have enough, SPICKNEL. n. s. [meum, Lat.] maldmony or bearwort. Butler. nothing, and of no The herb Dict. For he by faithful spial was assur'd Their trust towards them hath rather been as to SPICY. adj. [from spice.] Swift. good spials and good whisperers, than good magis-1. Producing spice; abounding with aro trates and officers. SPICE. n. s. [espices, Fr.] Bacon. 1. A vegetable production, fragrant to the smell and pungent to the palate; an aromatick substance used in sauces. Dang'rous rocks, Which, touching but my gentle vessel's side, Indies. VOL. II. Baker. 2. maticks. Off at sea north-east winds blow Sabæan odour, from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest; with such delay Well pleas'd they slack their course; and many a league, Cheer'd with the grateful smell, old ocean smiles. quality of being spiked like ears of corn; fulness of ears. Dict. SPIDER. n. s. [Skinner thinks this word softened from spinder, or spinner, from spin. Junius, with his usual felicity, dreams that it comes from oil to extend; for the spider extends his web. Perhaps it comes from spieden, Dut.. speyden, Dan. to spy, to lie upon the catch. Don, dona, Sax. is a beetle, or properly an humble bee, or stingless bee. May not spider be spy dor, the insect that watches the dor?] The animal that spins a web for flies. More direful hap betide that hated wretch, Than I can wish to adders, spiders, toads. Shakesp. The spider's web to watch we'll stand, And, when it takes the bee, We'll help out of the tyrant's hand The innocent to free. Like thee confin'd to noisome garret, And rudely barish'd rooms of state. The spider's touch how exquisitely fiue! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. Pope. SPIDERCATCHER. n. s. [from spider and catcher; picus murarius, Lat.] A bird. SPIDERWORT n. s. [phalangium, Lat.] A plant with a lily-flower, composed of Miller. six petals. SPIGNEL n. s. [meum, Lat.] A plant. See SPICKNELL. SPIGOT. n. s. [spijcker, Dut.] A pin or peg put into the faucet to keep in the liquor. Base Hungarian wight, wilt thou the spigot wield? Shakesp. Take out the spigot, and clap the point in your mouth. Swift. SPIKE. n. s. [spica, Lat.] 1. An ear of corn. Drawn up in ranks and files, the bearded spiker Guard it from birds, as with a stand of pikes. Denh. Suffering not the yellow beards to rear, He tramples down the spikes, and intercepts the year. Dryden. The gleaners, Spike after spike, their sparing harvest pick. Thoms. 2. A long nail of iron or wood; a long rod of iron sharpened: so called from its similitude to an ear. For the body of the ships, no nation equals England for the oaken timber; and we need not borrow of any other iron for spikes or nails to fasten them. Bacon. The head of your medal would be seen to more advantage, if it were placed on a spike of the tower. Dryden. He wears on his head the corona radiata, another type of his divinity: the spikes that shoot out reAddison. present the rays of the sun. SPIKE. n. s. The name of a plant. This is a smaller species of lavender. The oil of spike is much used by our artificers in their varnishes; but it is generally adulterated. Hill's Materia Medica. To SPIKE. v. a. [from the noun.] A youth, leaping over the spiked pales, was sud-1. To waste; to be lavish. denly frighted 'down, and in his falling he was catched by those spikes. Wiseman. 3. To make sharp at the end. SPIKENARD. n. s. [spica nardi, Lat.] A plant, and the oil or balsam produced from the plant. It grows plentifully in Java. It has been known to the medical writers of all ages. Hill's Materia Medica. A woman, having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard, brake and poured it on his head. Mark, xiv. S. He cast into the pile bundles of myrrh, and sheaves of spikenard, enriching it with every spicy Spectator. shrub. SPILL. n. s. [spijlen, Dut.] 1. A small shiver of wood, or thin bar of iron. 2. ling. Thy father bids thee spare, and chides for spil- In harbour they are taken by spillers made of a Our vaults have wept with drunken spilth of wine. 10 SPIN. v. a. preter. spun or span: The oysters, besides gathering by hand, have a peculiar dredge, which is a thick strong net, fast-1. ened to three spills of iron, and drawn at the boat's stern. Carew. 2. Have near the bunghole a little venthole, stopped with a spill. Mortimer. 2. A small quantity of money. I know not whence derived. The bishops, who consecrated this ground, were wont to have a spill or sportule from the credulous aity. Ayliffe. 3. To SPILL. v. a. [rpillan, Sax. spillen, 1. To shed; to lose by shedding. Be satisfied, dear God, with our true blood, Which, as thou know'st, unjustly must be spilt. Friend or brother, Shakesp. He forfeits his own blood that spills another. Subduing nations; and achiev'd thereby Roscommon. Thus is our thought with pain of thistle tilled, Why are you so fierce and cruel? Crack nature's mould, ail germins spill at once For then their threats will kill me : Nor look too kind on my desires; It hath an apetalous flower, consisting of many stamina included in the flower-cup, which e produced in spikes upon the male plants which are barren; but the embryos are produced from the wings of the leaves on the female plants, which afterward become roundish or angular seeds, which in some sorts have thorns adhering to them. Miker. Spinage is an excellent herb,crude or boiled. Maz SPINAL. adj. [spina, Lat.] Belonging to the backbone. All spinal, or such as have no ribs, but only a back bone, are somewhat analagous thereto. Brown's Vulgar Erreurs Those solids are entirely nervous, and proced from the brain and spinal marrow, which by thir bulk appear sufficient to furnish all the stamina of Arbuth threads of the solid parts Descending careless from his couch, the fall Lux'd his joint neck, and spinal marrow bruis'd. Philips part. spun. [rpinnan, Sax. spinnen, Dut.] SPINDLE. n. s [spindl, spindel, Sax.] Ex. xxxv. 26. To draw out into threads. You would be another Penelope; yet all the The fates but only spin the coarser clue; By one delay after another, they spin out their Why should Rome fall a moment ere her time? Addison's Cato. 4. To form by degrees; to draw out lumes. 1. The pin by which the thread is formed, and on which it is conglomerated. I passed lightly over many particulars, on which Men of large thoughts and quick apprehensions men of my own size. Locke. The lines are weak, another 's pleas'd to say; To SPIN. v. n. 2. [Spingare, Ital.] To stream out in a Together furiously they ran, That to the ground came horse and man; So sharp were their encounters. Drayt. Nymph. Whether the sun, predominant in heav'n, As when a shipwright stands his workmen o'er, 3. Bodies fibrous by moisture in corporate with other thread, especially if there be a little wreathing, as appeareth by the twisting of thread, and twining about of spindles. Sing to those that hold the vital sheers, Upon a true repentance, God is not so fatally Do thou take me for a Roman matron, The spindles must be tied up, and, as they grow in height, rods set by them, lest by their bending they should break. Mortimer. Any thing slender. In contempt. Repose yourself, if those spindle Igs of yours will carry you to the next chair. Dryd. Span. Fryer. The marriage of one of our heiresses with as en inent courtier gave us spindle shanks and cramps. Tatler. To SPINDLE. v. n. [from the noun.] To shoot into a long small stalk. Another ill accident in drought is the spindling of the corn, which with us is rare, but in hotter countries common; insomuch as the word cal mity was first derived from calamus, when the Bacon corn could not get out of the stalk. When the flowers begin to spindle, all but or two of the biggest, at each root, should te Mert mer. ni ped off. SPINDLESHA'NKED. adj. [spindle and shank.] Having small legs. Her lawyer is a little rivelled, spindleshanked gentleman. Addin. SPINDLETREE. n. s. [enonymus, Lat.] A practised spinner shall spin a pound of wool worth two shillings for sixpence. Graunt. 2. A garden spider, with long jointed legs. Weaving spiders come not here: Hence, you long-legged spinners, hence! Shakesp. SPINNING Wheel. n. s. [from spin.] The wheel by which, since the disuse of the rock, the thread is drawn. My spinning wheel and rake Gay. Let Susan keep for her dear sister's sake. SPINNY. adj. I suppose, small, slender. A barbarous word. They plow it early in the year, and then there, will come some spinny grass that will keep it from scalding. Mortimer. SPINO'SITY. n. s. [spinosus, Lat.] Crabbedness; thorny or briary perplexity. Philosophy consisted of nought but dry spinosities, lean notions, and endless altercations about things of nothing. Glanville SPINOUS. adj. [spinosus, Lat.] Thorny; full of thorns. ! SPINSTER. n. s. [from spin.] 1. A woman that spins. The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it. Shakesp. Twelfth Night. One Michael Cassio, That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster. Shakesp. Othello. 2. [In law.] The general term for a girl or maiden woman. If a gentlewoman be termed spinster, she may abate the writ. Lord Coke. I desire that a yearly annuity of twenty pounds shall be paid to Rebecca Dingley, of the city of Dublin, spinster, during her life. Swift SPINSTRY. n. s. [from spinster.] The work of spinning. SPINY.adj [spina, Lat.] Thorny; briary; perplexed; difficult; troublesome. The first attempts are always imperfect; much more in so difficult and spiny an affair as so nice a subject. Digby SPIRACLE. n. s. [spiraculum, Lat.] A breathing hole; a vent; a small aper Air seems to consist of spires contorted into small spheres, through the interstices of which the particles of light may freely pass; it is light, the solid substance of the spires being very small in proportion to the spaces they take up. Cheyne. 2. Any thing growing up taper; a round pyramid, so called, perhaps, because a line drawn round and round in less and less circles would be a spire; a steeple. With glist'ring spires and pinnacles adorn'd. 3. Milton. He cannot make one spire of grass more or less than he hath made. Hale's Origin of Mankind. These pointed spires that wound the ambient sky, In glorious change! shall in destruction lie. Prior. The top or uppermost point. 'Twere no less than a traducement to silence, that Which to the spire and top of praises vouch'd, Would seem but modest. Shakesp. To SPIRE. v. n. [from the noun.] 1. To shoot up pyramidically. It is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, being more inclined to branch into arms. Mortimer. 2. [Spiro, Lat.] To breathe. Not in use. SPIRIT. n. s. [spiritus, Lat] 1. Breath; wind. 2. Spenser All purges have in them a raw spirit or wind, which is the principal cause of tension in the stomach. Bacon. All bodies have spirits and pneumatical parts within them; but the main difference between animate and inanimate are, that the spirits of things animate are all continued within themselves, and branched in veins as blood is; and the spirits have also certain seats where the principal do reside and whereunto the rest do resort: but the spirits in things inanimate are shut in and cut off by the tangible parts, as air in snow. Bacon's Natural History. The balmy spirit of the western breeze. Anon. [Esprit, Fr.] An immaterial substance; an intellectual being. Spirit is a substance wherein thinking, knowing, doubting, and a power of moving, do subsist. Locke. She is a spirit; yet not like air or wind, Nor like the spirits about the heart or brain; Nor like those spirits which alchymists do find, When they in ev'ry thing seek gold in vain : For she all natures under heav'n doth pass, Being like those spirits which God's bright face do see; Or like himself, whose image once she was, Though now, alas! she scarce his shadow be. For of all forms she holds the first degree, That are to gross material bodies knit; Yet she herself is body less and free, And though confin'd is almost infinite. Davies. I shall depend upon your constant friendship; like the trust we have in benevolent spirits, who, though we never see or hear them, we think are constantly praying for us. Pope. If we seclude space, there will remain in the world but matter and mind, or body and spirit. Watts's Logick You are all of you pure spirits. I don't mean 3. 4. 5. that you have not undies that want meat and drink, and sleep and cloathing; ut that which deserves to be called you, is nothing else bat sprit. The soul of man. Luw. The spirit shall return unto God that gave it. Bib. Look, who comes here? a grave unto a soul, Holding th' eternal spirit 'gainst her will In the vile prison of afflicted death. Shak. K. John. Every thing that you call yours, besides this spirit, is but like your cloathing: sometimes that is only to be used for a while, and then to end, and die, and wear away. Law. An apparition. They were terrified, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. Luke, xxiv. 37. Perhaps you might see the image, and not the glass; the former appearing like a spirit in the air. Bacon. Whilst young, preserve his tender mind from all impressions of spirits and goblins in the dark, Locke. Temper; habitual disposition of mind. He sits That peculiar law of Christianity, which forbids revenge, no man can think grievous, who considers the restless torment of a malicious and revengeful spirit. Tillotson. Nor once disturb their heav'nly spirits With Scapin's cheats, or Cæsar s merits. Prior. Let them consider how far they are from that spirit which prays for its most unjust enemies, if they have not kindness enough to pray for those by whose labours and service they live in ease themselves. Law. He is the devout man, who lives no longer on his own will, or the way and spirit of the world, but to the sole will of God. Law. 6. Ardour; courage; elevation; vehemence of mind. You were us'd say extremity was the trier of spirits, That common chances common men could bear. Shakesp. I ask but half thy mighty spirit for me. Cowley. A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the whole, nor seek slight fault to find, Where nature moves, and rapture warms, the mind. Pape 9. Intellectual powers distinct from the body. These discourses made so deep impression upon the mind and spirit of the price, whose nature was inclined to adventures, that he was transported with the thought of it. 11. Eagerness; desire. God has changed men's tempers with the times, and made a spirit of building succeed a spirit of pulling down. South. 12. Man of activity; man of life, fire, and enterprize. The watry kingdom is no bar To stop the foreign spirits, but they come. Shakesp. 13. Persons distinguished by qualities of the mind. A French word, happily growing obsolete. Romish adver a is, from the rising up of some schismatical spirits amongst us, conclude that the main body of our church is schismatical, because some branches of members thereof were such. White. Oft pitying God did well-form'd spirits raise, Fit for the toilsome busness of their days, To free the groaning nation, and to give Peace first, and then the rules in peace to live. Cowley. Such spirits as he desired to please, such would I chuse for ny judges. Dryden. 14. That which gives vigour or cheerfulness to the mind; the purest part of the body, bordering, says Sydenham, on immateriality. In this meaning it is commonly written with the plural termi nation. Though thou didst but jest, With my vex'd spirits I cannot take a truce, But they will quake. Shakesp. King John. When I sit and tell Into my story. The warlike feats I've done, his spirits fly out Cowley To sing thy praise, would heav'n my breath prolong, Infusing spirits worthy such a song, All men by experience find the necessity and aid of the spirits in the business of concoction. Blackmore. By means of the curious inosculation of the auditory nerves, the orgasms of the spirits should be allayed. Derham. In some fair body thus the secret soul Pope. He is always forced to drink a hearty glass, to drive thoughts of business out of his head, and make his spirits drowsy enough for sleep. Law. 15. Characteristical likeness; essential qualities. Italian pieces will ap; ear best in a room where the windows are high, because they are commonly made to a descending light, which of all other doth set off men's faces in their truest spirit. Wotton. 16. Any thing eminently pure and refined. Nor doth the eye itself, That most pure spirit of sense, behold itself. Shakesp. 17. That which hath power or energy. There is in wine a mighty spirit, that will not be congealed. South. 18. An inflammable liquor raised by distillation: as brandy, rum. What the chymists call spirit, they apply the name to so many different things, that they seem to have no settled notion of the thing. In general, they give the name of spirit to any distil.ed volatile liquor. Boyle. All spirits, by frequent use, destroy, and at last extinguish the natural heat of the somach. Temple. In distillations, what trickles down the sides of the receiver, if it will not mix with water, is oil; If it will, it is spirit. Arbuthnot on Aliments. 3. Spenser. To animate or actuate as a spirit. So talk'd the spirited sly snake. Milton's Paradise Lost. To excite; to animate; to encourage. He will be faint in any execution of such a counsel, unless spirited by the unanimous decrees of a general diet. Temple. The same disaster has invaded his spirituals; the passions rebel; and there are so many gover nours, that there can be no government. South. 3. Not gross; refined from external things· relative only to the mind. Civil dissensions never fail of introducing and spiriting the ambition of private men. Swift. 4. Many officers and private men spirit up and assist those obstinate people to continue in their rebellion. Swift. To draw; to entice. In the southern coast of America, the southern point of the needle varieth toward the land, as being disposed and spirited that way by the meridional and proper hemisphere. Brown. The ministry had him spirited away, and carried abroad, as a dangerous person. Arbuthnot and Pope. SPIRITALLY. adv. [from spiritus, Lat.] By means of the breath. Conceive one of each pronounced spirita'ly, the other vocally. Holder's Elements of Speech.) SPIRITED. adj. [from spirit.] Lively; vivacious; full of fire. Dryden's translation of Virgil is noble and spirited. Pope. SPIRITEDNESS. n. s. [from spirited.] Disposition or make of mind. He showed the narrow spiritedness, pride, and ignorance of pedants. Addison. SPIRITFULNESS. n. s. [from spirit and full.] Sprightliness; liveliness. A cock's crowing is a tone that corresponds to singing, attesting his mirth and spiritfulness. Harvey. SPIRITLESS. adj. [from spirit.] Dejected; low; deprived of vigour; wanting courage; depressed. A man so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe begone. Drew Priani's curtain. Shakesp. Henry IV. Of their wonted vigour left them drain'd, Exhausted, spiritless, athlicted, fall'u. Milton's Paradise Lost. Nor did all Rome, grown spiritless, supply A man that for bold truth durst bravely die. Dryd. Art thou so base, so spiritless a slave? Not so he bore the fate to which you doom'd him. SPIRITOUS. adj. [from spirit.] Smith. 1. Refined; defecated; advanced near to spirit. More refin'd, more spiritous and pure, As nearer to him plac'd, or nearer tening. Milton. 2. Fine; ardent; active. SPIRITOUSNESS. H. 8. [from spiritous.] Fineness and activity of parts. They, notwithstanding the great thinness and spiritousness of the liquor, did lift up the upper surface, and for a moment forin a thin filia like a small hemisphere. Boyle. SPIRITUAL adj. [spirituel, Fr. from spirit.] 1. Distinct from matter; immaterial; incorporeal. Echo is a great argument of the spiritual essence of sounds; for if it were corporeal, the repercussion should be created by like instruments with the original sound. Bacon. Both visibles and audibles in their working emit no corporeal substance into their mediums, but only carry certain spiritual species. Bacon. Some, who pretend to be of a more spiritua and refined religion, spend their time in contem plation, and talk much of communion with God, Calamy's Sermons Not temporal; relating to the things of heaven; ecclesiastical. Place man in some publick society, civil or spiritual. Hooker. Thou art reverend Touching thy spiritual function, not thy life. I have made an offer to his majesty, As touching France, to give a greater sum Shakesp. Shakesp Those servants, who have believing masters, are forbid to withdraw any thing of their worldly respect, as presuming upon their spiritual kindred; or to honour them less, because they are become their brethren in being believers. Kettleworth, The clergy's business lies among the laity; nor is there a more effectual way to forward the salvation of men's souls, than for spiritual persons to make themselves as agreeable as they can in the conversations of the world. Swift. She loves them as her spiritual children, and they reverence her as their spiritual mother, with an af fection far above that of the fondest friends. Law. SPIRITUALITY. n. s. [from spiritual.] 4. Many secret indispositions and aversions to duty will steal upon the soul, and it will require both time and close application of mind to recover it to such a frame, as shall dispose it for the spiritualities of religion. South. That which belongs to any one as an ecclesiastick. Of common right, the dean and chapter are guardians of the spiritualities, during the vacancy of a bishoprick. Ayliffe. SPIRITUALTY. n. s. [from spiritual.] Ecclesiastical body. Not in use. We of the spiritualty Will raise your highness such a mighty sum, As never did the clergy at one time. Shakesp SPIRITUALIZATION. n. s. [from spiritualize.] The act of spiritualizing. To SPIRITUALIZE. v. a. [spiritualiser, Fr. from spirit.] To refine the intellect; to purify from the feculencies of the world. This would take it much out of the care of the soul, to spiritualize and replenish it with good works. Hammond. We begin our survey from the lowest dregs of sense, and so ascend to our more spiritualized selves. Glanville. As to the future glory in which the body is to partake, that load of earth which now engages to Grossness; thickness. Drawing wine or beer from the lees, called racking, it will clarify the sooner; for though the lees keep the drink in heart, and make it lasting, yet they cast up some spissitude. Bacon. corruption, must be calcined and spiritualized, and SPI'SSITUDE. n. s. [from spissus, Lat.]j thus be cloathed upon with glory. Decay of Piety. If man will act rationally, he cannot admit any competition between a momentary satisfaction, and an everlasting happiness, as great as God can give, and our spiritualized capacities receive. Rogers. SPIRITUALLY. adv. [from spiritual.] Without corporeal grossness; with attention to things purely intellectual. In the same degree that virgins live more spiritually than other persons, in the same degree is their virginity a more excellent state. Taylor's Rule of Living Holy. SPIRITUOUS. adj. [spiritueux, Fr. from spirit.] 1. Having the quality of spirit, tenuity and activity of parts. More refin'd, more spirituous and pure, As to him nearer tending. Milton. The most spirituous and most fragrant part of the plant exhales by the action of the sun. Arbuthnot. 2. Lively; gay; vivid; airy. It may appear airy and spirituous, and fit for the welcome of chearful guests. Wotton's Architect. SPIRITUO'SITY. I n. s. [from spirituSPIRITUOUSNESS. ous.] The quality of being spirituous; tenuity and activity. To SPIRT. v. n. [spruyten, Dut. to shoot up, Skinner; spritta, Swed. to fly out, Lye.] To spring out in a sudden stream; to stream out by intervals. Bottling of beer, while new and full of spirit, so Spissitude is subdued by acrid things, and acrimony by inspissating. Arbuthnot on Aliments. SPIT. n. s. [rpitan, Sax. spit, Dut. spedo, Ital.] 1. A long prong on which meat is driven, 2. to be turned before the fire. A goodly city is this Antium; 'Tis I that made thy widows: then know me not, Lest that thy wives with spits, and boys with stones, In puny battle slay me. Shakesp. Coriolanus. They may be contrived to the moving of sails in a chimney corner, the motion of which may be applied to the turning of a spit. Wilk. Math. Magick. With Peggy Dixon thoughtful sit, Contriving for the pot and spit. Swift. Such a depth of earth as is pierced by one action of the spade. Where the earth is washed from the quick, face it with the first spit of earth dug out of the ditch. Mortimer. To SPIT. v. a. preterite spat; participle pass. spit or spitted. [from the noun.] 1. To put upon a spit. I see my cousin's ghost Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body Upon a rapier's point. 2. To thrust through. Shakesp. that it spirteth when the stopple is taken forth, To SPIT. v. a. [rpœran, Sax. spytter, maketh the drink more quick and windy. Bacon's Natural History. Thus the small jett, which hasty hands unlock, Spirts in the gard'ner's eyes who turns the cock. Pope. To SPIRT. v. a. To throw out in a jet. When weary Proteus Retir'd for shelter to his wonted caves, Dryden. When rains the passage hide, Oft the loose stones spirt up a muddy tide Beneath thy careless foot. Gay. SPIRT. n. s. [from the verb.] 1. Sudden ejection. 2. Sudden effort. To SPIRTLE. v. a. [a corruption of spirt.] To shoot scatteringly. The brains and mingled blood were spirtled on the wall. Drayton. The terraqueous globe would, by the centrifugal force of that motion, be soon dissipated and spirtled into the circumambient space, was it not kept together by this noble contrivance of the Creator. Derham's Physico-Theology. SPIRY. adj. [from spire.] 1. Pyramidal. Waste sandy valleys, once perplex'd with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn. Pope's Messiah. In these lone walls, their days eternal bound, These moss-grown domes with spiry turrets crown'd Where awful arches make a noon-day night, And the dim windows shed a solemn light, Thy eyes diffus'd a reconciling ray, And gleams of glory brighten'd all the day. Pope. 2. Wreathed; curled. Hid in the spiry volumes of the snake, I lurk'd within the covert of a brake. Dryden. SPISS. adj. [spissus, Lat.] Close; firm; thick. Not in use. Dut.] To eject from the mouth. A large mouth, indeed, That spits forth death and mountains. Shakesp. The sea thrusts up her waves, First in herself loud, but oppos'd with banks and rocks, she rores, And all her backe in bristles set, spits every way her fome. Chapman. To SPIT. v. n. To throw out spittle or moisture of the mouth. Very good orators, when they are here, will spit. A maid came from her father's house to one of the tribunals of the Gentiles, and declaring herself a Christian, spit in the judge's face. South. A drunkard men abhor, and would even spit at him, were it not for fear he should something more than spit at them. South. Spit on your finger and thumb, and pinch the snuff till the candle goes out. Swift's Rules for Serv. SPITTAL. n. s. [corrupted from hospital.] A charitable foundation. In use only in the phrases, a spittal sermon, and rob not the spittal. To SPITCHCOCK. v. a. No man lards salt pork with orange peel, From his modest and humble charity, virtues This breeding rather site than shame in her, or, if it were a shame, a shame not of the fault but of the repulse, she did thirst for a revenge. Sidney. Bewray they did their inward boiling spite, Each stirring others to revenge their cause. Daniel. Done all to spite The great Creator; but their spite still serves His glory to augment. Milton's Paradise Lost. Begone, ye criticks, and restrain your spite; Codrus writes on, and will for ever write. Pope. 2. Spite of or In spite of. Notwithstanding; in defiance of. It is often used without any malignity of meaning. I'll guard thee free, And save thee in her spite. Chapmon. Blessed be such a preacher, whom God mac use of to speak a word in season, and saved me in spite of the world, the devil, and myself. South. In spite of me I love, and see too late My mother's pride must find my mother's fate. Dryden. For thy lov'd sake, spite of my boding fears, In spite of all the fortitude that shines Addison. In spite of all applications, the patient grew Arbuthnot worse every day. To SPITE. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To mischief; to treat maliciously; to vex; to thwart malignantly. Beguil'd, divorc'd, wrong'd, spighted, slain, Most detestable death, by thee." Shakesp. I'll sacrifice the lamb that 1 do love, 2. To fill with spite; to offend. To spight a raven's heart within a dove. Shakesp. So with play did he a good while fight against the fight of Zelmane, who, more spited with that courtesy, that one that did nothing should be able to resist her, burned away with choler any mo tions which might grow out of her own sweet disposition. Sidney. Darius, spited at the magi, endeavoured to abulish not only their learning but their language. Temple. SPITEFUL. adj. [spite and full.] Malicious; malignant. The Jews were the deadliest and spitefullest enemies of Christianity that were in the world, and in this respect their orders to be shunned. Hooker All you have done Hath been but for a wayward son, Shakesp. Macbeth Our publick form of divine service and worship is in every part thereof religious and holy, maugre the malice of spiteful wretches, who have depraved it. White. Contempt is a thing made up of an undervalu ing of a man, upon a belief of his utter uselessness, and a spiteful endeavour to engage the rest of the world in the same slight esteem of him. South. The spiteful stars have shed their venom down, And now the peaceful planets take their turn. Dryden. SPITEFULLY. adv. [from spiteful.] Mali ciously; malignantly. Twice false Evadne, spitefully forsworn! That fatal beast like this I would have torn. Waller Vanessa sat, Scarce list'ning to their idle chat, Further than sometimes by a frown, To try their wisdom's full extent. Swift. SPITEFULNESS. n. s. [from spiteful.] It looks more like spitefulness and ill-nature, than a diligent search after truth. Keil against Burnet SPITTED. adj. [from spit.] Shot out into length. Whether the head of a deer, that by age is more spitted, may be brought again to be more branched. Bacon. |