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Any species of Australian birds of the genus Acanthorhynchus. They are related to the honey eaters.

Furnished with spines; spiny.

Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle. Knight.

and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety being the gem spinel ruby. It consist essentially of alumina and magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also chromium.

Having no spine.

The state or quality of being spinescent or spiny; also, a spiny growth or covering, as of certain animals.

Becoming hard and thorny; tapering gradually to a rigid, leafless point; armed with spines. Gray.

sounded by means of leather or quill plectrums or jacks. It was formerly much used. Dumb spinet. (Mus.) See Manichordon.

r Chætura, and allied genera, in which the shafts of the tail feathers terminate in rigid spines.

Slit; cleft. [Obs. & R.]

Having spines arranged spirally. See Spicule.

Producing spines; bearing thorns or spines; thorny; spiny.

Any of several Australian grasses of the genus Tricuspis, which often form dense, almost impassable growth, their leaves being stiff and sharp-pointed.

Shaped like a spine.

Bearing a spine or spines; thorn-bearing.

Quality of being spiny.

The chaffinch.

A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind.

One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.

ed on the under side, and near the end, of the abdomen of spiders, by means of which they spin their webs. Most spiders have three pairs of spinnerets, but some have only two pairs. The ordinary silk line of the spider is composed of numerous smaller lines jointed after issuing from the spinnerets.