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- English Word Spiked Definition of Spike
- English Word Spiked Definition Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes.
- English Word Spikefish Definition See Sailfish (a)
- English Word Spikelet Definition A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of Quaking grass.
- English Word Spikenard Definition An aromatic plant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for the hair is still prepared in India.
- English Word Spikenard Definition A fragrant essential oil, as that from the Nardostachys Jatamansi.
- English Word Spiketail Definition The pintail duck.
- English Word Spiking Definition of Spike
- English Word Spiky Definition Like a spike; spikelike.
- English Word Spiky Definition Having a sharp point, or sharp points; furnished or armed with spikes.
- English Word Spile Definition A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask.
- English Word Spile Definition A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple.
- English Word Spile Definition A large stake driven into the ground as a support for some superstructure; a pile.
- English Word Spile Definition To supply with a spile or a spigot; to make a small vent in, as a cask.
- English Word Spilikin Definition One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins
- English Word spilikins Definition of Spilikin ), a game played with such pieces; pushpin.
- English Word Spill Definition A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
- English Word Spill Definition A slender piece of anything.
- English Word Spill Definition A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
- English Word Spill Definition A metallic rod or pin.
- English Word Spill Definition A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
- English Word Spill Definition One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
- English Word Spill Definition A little sum of money.
- English Word Spill Definition To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
- English Word Spill Definition To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
- English Word Spill Definition To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
- English Word Spill Definition To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; -- applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour.
- English Word Spill Definition To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood.
- English Word Spill Definition To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
- English Word Spill Definition To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.