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- English Word Spontaneous Definition Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion.
- English Word Spontaneous Definition Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or natural law, without external force; as, spontaneous motion; spontaneous growth.
- English Word Spontaneous Definition Produced without being planted, or without human labor; as, a spontaneous growth of wood.
- English Word Spontoon Definition A kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers.
- English Word Spook Definition A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin.
- English Word Spook Definition The chimaera.
- English Word Spool Definition A piece of cane or red with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon.
- English Word Spool Definition To wind on a spool or spools.
- English Word Spooled Definition of Spool
- English Word Spooler Definition One who, or that which, spools.
- English Word Spooling Definition of Spool
- English Word Spoom Definition To be driven steadily and swiftly, as before a strong wind; to be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a part of the sails spread; to scud under bare poles.
- English Word Spoon Definition See Spoom.
- English Word Spoon Definition An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.
- English Word Spoon Definition Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.
- English Word Spoon Definition Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney.
- English Word Spoon Definition To take up in, or as in, a spoon.
- English Word Spoon Definition To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love.
- English Word Spoon-billed Definition Having the bill expanded and spatulate at the end.
- English Word Spoon-meat Definition Food that is, or must be, taken with a spoon; liquid food.
- English Word Spoonbill Definition Any one of several species of wading birds of the genera Ajaja and Platalea, and allied genera, in which the long bill is broadly expanded and flattened at the tip.
- English Word Spoonbill Definition The shoveler. See Shoveler, 2.
- English Word Spoonbill Definition The ruddy duck. See under Ruddy.
- English Word Spoonbill Definition The paddlefish.
- English Word Spoondrift Definition Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift.
- English Word Spooney Definition Weak-minded; demonstratively fond; as, spooney lovers.
- English Word Spooney Definition A weak-minded or silly person; one who is foolishly fond.
- English Word Spooneye Definition of Spooney
- English Word Spoonful Definition The quantity which a spoon contains, or is able to contain; as, a teaspoonful; a tablespoonful.
- English Word Spoonful Definition Hence, a small quantity.