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Soon. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.

A sword, especially a broadsword, formerly used both to cut and thrust.

A spermoblast. -- Sper`ma*to"al, a. Owen.

Same as Spermatozoid.

A spitbox; a cuspidor.

A kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers.

See Spoom. [Obs.] We might have spooned before the wind as well as they. Pepys.

Having the bill expanded and spatulate at the end.

Food that is, or must be, taken with a spoon; liquid food. "Diet most upon spoon-meats." Harvey.

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.

Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift.

Weak-minded; demonstratively fond; as, spooney lovers. [Spelt also spoony.] [Colloq.]

The yautia.

The quantity which a spoon contains, or is able to contain; as, a teaspoonful; a tablespoonful.

In a spoony manner.

The mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia).

A gephyrean worm of the genus Thalassema, having a spoonlike probiscis.

Scurvy grass.

Same as Spooney.