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A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.

y, an apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern times, an apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for convalescents.

Parsimony; frugal use. [Obs.] Bacon. Poured out their plenty without spite or spare. Spenser.

imp. of Spit. [Obs. or R.]

See Spitchcock.

Spawl; spittle. [Obs.] Bale.

Scattered or ejected spittle.

That which is spawled, or spit out.

To spit; to throw out. [Obs.]

Spite. [Obs.] Spenser.

Anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen. In noble minds some dregs remain, Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain. Pope.

Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful. "Splenetic guffaw." G. Eliot. You humor me when I am sick; Why not when I am splenetic Pope.

The act of spitting; expectoration. Harvey.

Inclined to spit; spitting much. Sir H. Wotton.

To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

That which is expectorated; a salival discharge; spittle; saliva.

argument. Jer. Taylor. A war ensues: the Cretans own their cause, Stiff to defend their hospitable laws. Dryden.

Notwithstanding what has been said or done; in spite of what has occured; nevertheless; -- sometimes used as a conjunction. See Synonym of But. As sunshine, broken in the rill, Though turned astray, is sunshine still. Moore.

, established toward the close of the twelfth century, in imitation of the Templars and Hospitalers, and composed chiefly of Teutons, or Germans. The order rapidly increased in numbers and strength till it became master of all Prussia, Livonia, and Pomerania. In its decay it was abolished by Napoleon; but it has been r…

Formerly, a wandering mendicant discharged as incurable from Bethlehem Hospitel, Eng.; hence, a wandering mendicant, either mad or feigning to be so; a madman; a bedlamite.