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  • English Word Spasmodic Definition Soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as, spasmodic zeal or industry.
  • English Word Spasmodic Definition A medicine for spasm.
  • English Word Spasmodical Definition Same as Spasmodic, a.
  • English Word Spastic Definition Of or pertaining to spasm; spasmodic; especially, pertaining to tonic spasm; tetanic.
  • English Word Spastically Definition Spasmodically.
  • English Word Spasticity Definition A state of spasm.
  • English Word Spasticity Definition The tendency to, or capability of suffering, spasm.
  • English Word Spat Definition imp. of Spit.
  • English Word Spat Definition A young oyster or other bivalve mollusk, both before and after it first becomes adherent, or such young, collectively.
  • English Word Spat Definition To emit spawn; to emit, as spawn.
  • English Word Spat Definition A light blow with something flat.
  • English Word Spat Definition Hence, a petty combat, esp. a verbal one; a little quarrel, dispute, or dissension.
  • English Word Spat Definition To dispute.
  • English Word Spat Definition To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together; as the hands.
  • English Word Spat Definition of Spit
  • English Word Spatangoid Definition Of or pertaining to the Spatangoidea.
  • English Word Spatangoid Definition One of the Spatangoidea.
  • English Word Spatangoidea Definition An order of irregular sea urchins, usually having a more or less heart-shaped shell with four or five petal-like ambulacra above. The mouth is edentulous and situated anteriorly, on the under side.
  • English Word Spatangus Definition A genus of heart-shaped sea urchins belonging to the Spatangoidea.
  • English Word Spatchcock Definition See Spitchcock.
  • English Word Spate Definition A river flood; an overflow or inundation.
  • English Word Spatha Definition A spathe.
  • English Word Spathaceous Definition Having a spathe; resembling a spathe; spathal.
  • English Word Spathae Definition of Spatha
  • English Word Spathal Definition Furnished with a spathe; as, spathal flowers.
  • English Word Spathe Definition A special involucre formed of one leaf and inclosing a spadix, as in aroid plants and palms. See the Note under Bract, and Illust. of Spadix.
  • English Word Spathed Definition Having a spathe or calyx like a sheath.
  • English Word Spathic Definition Like spar; foliated or lamellar; spathose.
  • English Word Spathiform Definition Resembling spar in form.
  • English Word Spathose Definition See Spathic.