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. Spade bayonet, a bayonet with a broad blade which may be used digging; -- called also trowel bayonet. -- Spade handle (Mach.), the forked end of a connecting rod in which a pin is held at both ends. See Illust. of Knuckle joint, under Knuckle.

orseman holds a spear; the right hand. Crabb. -- Spear side, the male line of a family. Lowell. -- Spear thistle (Bot.), the common thistle (Cnicus lanceolatus).

just made and a chip just split; brand- new; as, a spick and span novelty. See Span-new. Howell.

Any one of the small branches on a stag's head. [Obs.] Howell.

o spear side. Ld. Lytton. [R.] "King Lycaon, grandson, by the spindle side, of Oceanus." Lowell. -- Spindle tree (Bot.), any shrub or tree of the genus Eunymus. The wood of E. Europæus was used for spindles and skewers. See Prickwood.

nasals m, n, ng; with the further exception, by others, of the liquids r, l, and the semivowels w, y; by others limited to f, v, th surd and sonant, and the sound of German ch, -- thus excluding the sibilants, as well as the nasals, liquids, and semivowels. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 197-208.

ity, 2. He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals. Lowell.

oken of defeat. [Cant or Slang] "He was too brave a man to throw up the sponge to fate." Lowell. -- Vegetable sponge. (Bot.) See Loof. -- Velvet sponge, a fine, soft commercial sponge (Spongia equina, variety meandriniformis) found in Florida and the West Indies. -- Vitreous sponge. See Glass-sponge. -- Yellow spon…

l, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood. And on her feet a pair of spurs large. Chaucer.

coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. In the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings. [Written also spur-rial, and spur-ryal.]

s Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur.

nt; to shock. Whosoever will read the story of this war will find himself much stagered. Howell. Grants to the house of Russell were so enormous, as not only to outrage economy, but even to stagger credibility. Burke.

y suggestive of a statue; like a statue. A character statuesquely simple in its details. Lowell.

Steepness. Howell.

figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.

Pertaining to a dunghill; hence, mean; dirty; paltry. [Obs.] Howell.

A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.

Speaking with directness; plain-spoken. [Colloq. U.S.] Lowell.

forms of the aurora borealis. Macaulay. While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot. Lowell.

An officer, or ward, having the care of the streets. [Obs.] Cowell.