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- English Word Spinage Definition A common pot herb (Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the Goosefoot family.
- English Word Spinal Definition Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the backbone, or vertebral column; rachidian; vertebral.
- English Word Spinal Definition Of or pertaining to a spine or spines.
- English Word Spinate Definition Bearing a spine; spiniform.
- English Word Spindle Definition The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.
- English Word Spindle Definition A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
- English Word Spindle Definition The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc.
- English Word Spindle Definition The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
- English Word Spindle Definition A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
- English Word Spindle Definition The fusee of a watch.
- English Word Spindle Definition A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
- English Word Spindle Definition A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
- English Word Spindle Definition A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
- English Word Spindle Definition Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.
- English Word Spindle Definition Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
- English Word Spindle Definition To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.
- English Word Spindle-legged Definition Having long, slender legs.
- English Word Spindle-shanked Definition Having long, slender legs.
- English Word Spindle-shaped Definition Having the shape of a spindle.
- English Word Spindle-shaped Definition Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots.
- English Word Spindled Definition of Spindle
- English Word Spindlelegs Definition A spindleshanks.
- English Word Spindleshanks Definition A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt.
- English Word Spindletail Definition The pintail duck.
- English Word Spindleworm Definition The larva of a noctuid mmoth (Achatodes zeae) which feeds inside the stalks of corn (maize), sometimes causing much damage. It is smooth, with a black head and tail and a row of black dots across each segment.
- English Word Spindling Definition of Spindle
- English Word Spindling Definition Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, a spindling tree; a spindling boy.
- English Word Spine Definition A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.
- English Word Spine Definition A rigid and sharp projection upon any part of an animal.
- English Word Spine Definition One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish.