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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 be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste. [Obs.] That thou wilt suffer innocents to spill. Chaucer.

To cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar. Spiritual pride spils many graces. Jer. Taylor.

act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation. Legal spoliation, which will impoverish one part of the community in order to corrupt the remainder. Sir G. C. Lewis.

To grow; to prosper. What makes all this, but Jupiter the king, At whose command we perish, and we spring Dryden. To spring at, to leap toward; to attempt to reach by a leap. -- To spring forth, to leap out; to rush out. -- To spring in, to rush in; to enter with a leap or in haste. -- To spring on or upon, to leap…

ga Douglasii) of Northwestern America. -- Essence of spruce, a thick, dark-colored, bitterish, and acidulous liquid made by evaporating a decoction of the young branches of spruce. -- Hemlock spruce (Bot.), a graceful coniferous tree (Tsuga Canadensis) of North America. Its timber is valuable, and the bark is largely…

To die; to perish. [Obs., except in the sense of perishing with cold or hunger.] Lydgate. In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules. Chaucer.

To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility. [R.] "Sterilizing the earth." Woodward.

To die, or cause to die; to perish. See Starve. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

ored unpressed cheese made from milk with cream added; -- so called from the village or parish of Stilton, England, where it was originally made. It is very rich in fat.

Solid; nourishing; as, strong meat. Heb. v. 12.

o draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking.

the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.

To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army.

A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist. Shipley.

To die; to perish. [Obs.]

To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat. "Sweltered cattle." Coleridge.

To flourish, so as to make the sound swish. Coleridge.

Having the capacity of bearing several successive crops of fruit without perishing; as, sychnocarpous plants.