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genus Sphex and allied genera. These wasps have the abdomen attached to the thorax by a slender pedicel. See Illust. of Sand wasp, under Sand. Sphex fly (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of small dipterous flies of the genus Conops and allied genera. The form of the body is similar to that of a sphex.…

A minute, slender granule, or point.

t.) See under Rush. -- Spike shell (Zoöl.), any pteropod of the genus Styliola having a slender conical shell. -- Spike team, three horses, or a horse and a yoke of oxen, harnessed together, a horse leading the oxen or the span. [U.S.]

A slender piece of anything. Specifically: --

white matter is composed of nerve fibers only. The center of the cord is traversed by a slender canal connecting with the ventricles of the brain.

The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.

Having long, slender legs.

Having long, slender legs. Addison.

A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt.

Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, a spindling tree; a spindling boy.

Thin and long; slim; slender. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Like a spine in shape; slender. "Spiny grasshoppers sit chirping." Chapman.

One of the special defensive zooids of certain hydroids. They have the form of long, slender tentacles, and bear lasso cells.

A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat. An oak cometh up a little spire. Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to a spire; like a spire, tall, slender, and tapering; abounding in spires; as, spiry turrets. "Spiry towns." Thomson.

A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting.

To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver. [Obs. or R.] Florio.

A little spring. But yet from out the little hill Oozes the slender springlet still. Sir W. Scott.

A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc. A sharpened stake strong Dryas found. Dryden.

whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men. How the strait stays the slender waist constrain. Gay.