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- English Word Spider Definition An iron pan with a long handle, used as a kitchen utensil in frying food. Originally, it had long legs, and was used over coals on the hearth.
- English Word Spider Definition A trevet to support pans or pots over a fire.
- English Word Spider Definition A skeleton, or frame, having radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces; as, a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; a frame for strengthening a core or mold for a casting, etc.
- English Word Spider web Definition Alt. of Spider's web
- English Word Spider's web Definition The silken web which is formed by most kinds of spiders, particularly the web spun to entrap their prey. See Geometric spider, Triangle spider, under Geometric, and Triangle.
- English Word Spidered Definition Infested by spiders; cobwebbed.
- English Word Spiderlike Definition Like a spider.
- English Word Spiderwort Definition An American endogenous plant (Tradescantia Virginica), with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus.
- English Word Spied Definition imp. & p. p. of Spy.
- English Word Spied Definition of Spy
- English Word Spiegel iron Definition A fusible white cast iron containing a large amount of carbon (from three and a half to six per cent) and some manganese. When the manganese reaches twenty-five per cent and upwards it has a granular structure, and constitutes the alloy ferro manganese, largely used in the manufacture of Bessemer steel. Called also specular pig iron, spiegel, and spiegeleisen.
- English Word Spiegeleisen Definition See Spiegel iron.
- English Word Spies Definition of Spy
- English Word Spight Definition Spite.
- English Word Spight Definition A woodpecker. See Speight.
- English Word Spignel Definition Same as Spickenel.
- English Word Spignet Definition An aromatic plant of America. See Spikenard.
- English Word Spigot Definition A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock.
- English Word Spigurnel Definition Formerly the title of the sealer of writs in chancery.
- English Word Spike Definition A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
- English Word Spike Definition Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
- English Word Spike Definition An ear of corn or grain.
- English Word Spike Definition A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
- English Word Spike Definition To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.
- English Word Spike Definition To set or furnish with spikes.
- English Word Spike Definition To fix on a spike.
- English Word Spike Definition To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it.
- English Word Spike Definition Spike lavender. See Lavender.
- English Word Spikebill Definition The hooded merganser.
- English Word Spikebill Definition The marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa).