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A principle or mixture of principles derived from Euonymus atropurpureus, or spindle tree.

A genus of small European and American trees; the spindle tree. The bark is used as a cathartic.

Exasperated; imbittered. [Obs.] Shak. Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning. Mrs. Browning.

Conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic.

A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.

A small bunch or bundle; a fascicle; as, a fascicule of fibers, hairs, or spines.

A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea.

e the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.

d or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving. It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. Shak .

al species, inhabiting the Indo-Pacific region. They are usually red, and have very large spinose pectoral and dorsal fins.

by steeping in bicarbinate of soda and acidulated liquids, and prepared for bleaching and spinning like cotton. Knight. -- Flax dresser, one who breaks and swingles flax, or prepares it for the spinner. -- Flax mill, a mill or factory where flax is spun or linen manufactured. -- Flax puller, a machine for pulling fl…

A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.

The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.

The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.

The lower part of a millstone spindle. It rests in a step. Knight.

A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc.

nd, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc.

A kind of mineral of the spinel group.

To spinkle or mark with freckle or small discolored spots; to spot.

The dressing of the hair by crisping or curling. Smollett.