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A spermoblast. -- Sper`ma*to"al, a. Owen.

A spitbox; a cuspidor.

A kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers.

An Italian silver coin. The testoon of Rome is worth 1s. 3d. sterling, or about thirty cents. Homans.

conciliation. If gentil men, or othere of hir contree Were wrothe, she wolde bringen hem atoon. Chaucer.

g upon abutments or piers. -- Lattice bridge, a bridge formed by lattice girders. -- Pontoon bridge, Ponton bridge. See under Pontoon. -- Skew bridge, a bridge built obliquely from bank to bank, as sometimes required in railway engineering. -- Suspension bridge. See under Suspension. -- Trestle bridge, a bridge fo…

A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened. Wycliff [Matt. xxvii. 51, 52].

Any ornamental vessel used as a spittoon; hence, to avoid the common term, a spittoon of any sort.

An ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc. [Written also encarpa.]

of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit. The cornices consist of frutages and festoons. Evelyn.

A song or story. [Obs.] Toone.

rufilotus) of a deep bay color, with a broad dorsal stripe of black; -- called also conquetoon.

pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon. Tatler.

A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter. Toone. Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt With modest warrant. Shak. Cry 'havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war! Shak.

A paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart; an engle. [Obs.] Toone.

To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; -- formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.

A space occupied by the animals, wagons, pontoons, and materials of all kinds, as ammunition, ordnance stores, hospital stores, provisions, etc., when brought together; also, the objects themselves; as, a park of wagons; a park of artillery.

ng. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.

See Pontoon.

nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. Toone.