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To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp. With her hair frizzed short up to her ears. Pepys.

An accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the like. [R.] Gray.

Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.

A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.

Zinc spinel; automolite.

ing of, ganglia or ganglion cells; as, a ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord.

To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire. Quenching the gasping furrows' thirst with rain. Spenser.

to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europæus).

A precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, emerald, topaz, sapphire, beryl, spinel, etc., especially when cut and polished for ornament; a jewel. Milton.

a single gimbal, as that by which the cockeye of the upper millstone is supported on the spindle.

hworm. Girdle bone (Anat.), the sphenethmoid. See under Sphenethmoid. -- Girdle wheel, a spinning wheel. -- Sea girdle (Zoöl.), a ctenophore. See Venus's girdle, under Venus. -- Shoulder, Pectoral, and Pelvic, girdle. (Anat.) See under Pectoral, and Pelvic. -- To have under the girdle, to have bound to one, that is…

A seashore plant of the Spinach family (Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.

A tumor springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system.

roat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; -- called also goldspink, goldie, fool's coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet William.

nt, made of waterproof gossamer. Gossamer spider (Zoöl.), any small or young spider which spins webs by which to sail in the air. See Ballooning spider.

To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of. Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff. Shak.

d (Bot.), a scraggy, stunted, and somewhat prickly shrub (Sarcobatus vermiculatus) of the Spinach family, very abundant in alkaline valleys from the upper Missouri to California. The name is also applied to other plants of the same family, as several species of Atriplex and Obione.

pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.

from Grind. Grinding frame, an English name for a cotton spinning machine. -- Grinding mill. (a) A mill for grinding grain. (b) A lapidary's lathe.

An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping.