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- English Word Spnsorial Definition Pertaining to a sponsor.
- English Word Spodomancy Definition Divination by means of ashes.
- English Word Spodomantic Definition Relating to spodomancy, or divination by means of ashes.
- English Word Spodumene Definition A mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emerald-green color, occuring in prismatic crystals, often of great size. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia. See Hiddenite.
- English Word Spoffish Definition Earnest and active in matters of no moment; bustling.
- English Word Spoil Definition To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.
- English Word Spoil Definition To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.
- English Word Spoil Definition To cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar.
- English Word Spoil Definition To render useless by injury; to injure fatally; to ruin; to destroy; as, to spoil paper; to have the crops spoiled by insects; to spoil the eyes by reading.
- English Word Spoil Definition To practice plunder or robbery.
- English Word Spoil Definition To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.
- English Word Spoil Definition That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
- English Word Spoil Definition Public offices and their emoluments regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage; -- commonly in the plural; as to the victor belong the spoils.
- English Word Spoil Definition That which is gained by strength or effort.
- English Word Spoil Definition The act or practice of plundering; robbery; aste.
- English Word Spoil Definition Corruption; cause of corruption.
- English Word Spoil Definition The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal.
- English Word Spoilable Definition Capable of being spoiled.
- English Word Spoiled Definition of Spoil
- English Word Spoiler Definition One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.
- English Word Spoiler Definition One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
- English Word Spoilfive Definition A certain game at cards in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be spoiled.
- English Word Spoilful Definition Wasteful; rapacious.
- English Word Spoiling Definition of Spoil
- English Word Spoilsman Definition One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service.
- English Word Spoilsmen Definition of Spoilsman
- English Word Spoilsmonger Definition One who promises or distributes public offices and their emoluments as the price of services to a party or its leaders.
- English Word Spoilt Definition of Spoil
- English Word Spoke Definition imp. of Speak.
- English Word Spoke Definition The radius or ray of a wheel; one of the small bars which are inserted in the hub, or nave, and which serve to support the rim or felly.