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d place in a small stream or jet; to spirt. Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, Spurts in the gardener's eyes who turns the cock. Pope.

To spurt or shoot in a scattering manner. [Obs.] Drayton.

A bridle path. [R.]

(Bot.) See Larkspur.

To spurt on or over; to asperse. [Obs.] Milton.

f Cratægus, or hawthorn (C. Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn.

To pollute; to defile. [Obs.] Cockeram.

This act of defiling; defilement; pollution. Bp. Hall.

To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. [R.] A. Brewer.

To disburse. [Obs.] Shak.

To disfurnish; to strip. [Obs.] Heywood.

Want of provisions; [Obs.] Spenser.

One who rides before; a harbinger. [Obs.] Shak.

A slender bony or cartilaginous process developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter.

A rash, hot-headed man. Holinshed.

Violent; impetuous; headstrong. Spenser. Peacham.

A genus of ranunculaceous plants (Delphinium), having showy flowers, and a spurred calyx. They are natives of the North Temperate zone. The commonest larkspur of the gardens is D. Consolida. The flower of the bee larkspur (D. elatum) has two petals bearded with yellow hairs, and looks not unlike a bee.…

lline birds of the genus Calcarius (or Plectrophanes), and allied genera. The Lapland longspur (C. Lapponicus), the chestnut-colored longspur (C. ornatus), and other species, inhabit the United States.

A spurner or contemner; a despiser; a scoffer. [Obs.] Joye.

s most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Clover.