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Having a slightly undulating margin; -- said of leaves.

A long patch, on a balloon, to be ripped off, by the rip cord, at landing, in order to allow the immediate escape of gas and instant deflation of the bag.

ouse, and sometimes used as a permanent habitation on the inland waters. [Written also sanpan.]

A dyewood yielded by Cæsalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. [Written also sappan wood.]

Sapan wood.

A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan.

Chinese abacus.

See Schwan-pan.

See Skid, n., 1. [Eng.]

Hence, a small space or a brief portion of time. Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound. Pope. Life's but a span; I'll every inch enjoy. Farquhar.

Quite new; brand-new; fire-new. "A span-new archbishop's chair." Fuller.

A condition of impoverishment of the blood; a morbid state in which the red corpuscles, or other important elements of the blood, are deficient.

Of or pertaining to spanæmia; having impoverished blood.

To tie or hobble with a spancel. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.] Malone.

A pair of grappling dogs for hoisting logs and timber.

The irregular triangular space between the curve of an arch and the inclosing right angle; or the space between the outer moldings of two contiguous arches and a horizontal line above them, or another arch above and inclosing them.

To wean. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

To spangle. [Obs.]

Figuratively, any little thing that sparkless. "The rich spangles that adorn the sky." Waller. Oak spangle. See under Oak.

One who, or that which, spangles.