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- English Word Spoutless Definition Having no spout.
- English Word Spoutshell Definition Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.
- English Word Sprack Definition Quick; lively; alert.
- English Word Sprad Definition p. p. of Spread.
- English Word Spradde Definition imp. of Spread.
- English Word Sprag Definition A young salmon.
- English Word Sprag Definition A billet of wood; a piece of timber used as a prop.
- English Word Sprag Definition To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep grade, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel.
- English Word Sprag Definition To prop or sustain with a sprag.
- English Word Sprag Definition See Sprack, a.
- English Word Spragged Definition of Sprag
- English Word Spragging Definition of Sprag
- English Word Sprain Definition To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation; as, to sprain one's ankle.
- English Word Sprain Definition The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining; as, a bad sprain of the wrist.
- English Word Sprained Definition of Sprain
- English Word Spraining Definition of Sprain
- English Word Spraints Definition The dung of an otter.
- English Word Sprang Definition imp. of Spring.
- English Word Sprang Definition of Spring
- English Word Sprat Definition A small European herring (Clupea sprattus) closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard; -- called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds.
- English Word Sprat Definition A California surf-fish (Rhacochilus toxotes); -- called also alfione, and perch.
- English Word Sprawl Definition To spread and stretch the body or limbs carelessly in a horizontal position; to lie with the limbs stretched out ungracefully.
- English Word Sprawl Definition To spread irregularly, as vines, plants, or tress; to spread ungracefully, as chirography.
- English Word Sprawl Definition To move, when lying down, with awkward extension and motions of the limbs; to scramble in creeping.
- English Word Sprawled Definition of Sprawl
- English Word Sprawling Definition of Sprawl
- English Word Spray Definition A small shoot or branch; a twig.
- English Word Spray Definition A collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a beautiful spray.
- English Word Spray Definition A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold.
- English Word Spray Definition A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.