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ent in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great a sorrow suffereth now Arcite! Chaucer. The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. Rambler.

To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable. To sour your happiness I must report, The queen is dead. Shak.

the Spaniards. Spanish bayonet (Bot.), a liliaceous plant (Yucca alorifolia) with rigid spine-tipped leaves. The name is also applied to other similar plants of the Southwestern United States and mexico. Called also Spanish daggers. -- Spanish bean (Bot.) See the Note under Bean. -- Spanish black, a black pigment ob…

Of or pertaining to a spine or spines. Spinal accessory nerves, the eleventh pair of cranial nerves in the higher vertebrates. They originate from the spinal cord and pass forward into the skull, from which they emerge in company with the pneumogastrics. -- Spinal column, the backbone, or connected series or vertebræ…

Bearing a spine; spiniform.

Having spines arranged spirally. See Spicule.

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

Shaped like a spine.

Bearing a spine or spines; thorn-bearing.

Full of spines; armed with thorns; thorny.

Having the form of a spine or thorn; spinelike. Spinous process of a vertebra (Anat.), the dorsal process of the neural arch of a vertebra; a neurapophysis.

A minute spine. Dana.

Having small spines; somewhat thorny.

Covered with small spines.

Full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree.

Any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain burds, on the legs of insects, etc.; especially, the spine on a cock's leg.

with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale.

.), a European skate (Raita radiata); -- so called from the stellate bases of the dorsal spines.

One who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or nutriment. Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling. Shak.

enus of large Jurassic dinosaurs remarkable for a powerful dermal armature of plates and spines.