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To make more pungent and intense; as, to sharpen a pain or disease.

Free from charge or expense; hence, unpunished; scot-free. [Obs.] Shak.

ay. If Lord Brougham gets a stone in his hand, he must, it seems, have a shy at somebody. Punch.

A religious sect noted for warlike traits, founded in the Punjab at the end of the 15th century.

Hence, thread spun, or cloth woven, from the above-named material.

Raw; not spun or wrought; as, sleaved thread or silk. Holinshed.

To cut; to sever; to divide. [Obs.] And slits the thin-spun life. Milton.

about 2 -- Small register. See the Note under 1st Register, 7. -- Small stuff (Naut.), spun yarn, marline, and the smallest kinds of rope. R. H. Dana, Jr. -- Small talk, light or trifling conversation; chitchat. -- Small wares (Com.), various small textile articles, as tapes, braid, tringe, and the like. M`Culloch.…

To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart. Chaucer. Shak.

To afflict; to chasten; to punish. Let us not mistake God's goodness, nor imagine, because he smites us, that we are forsaken by him. Wake.

To suffer severely; to be punished. Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome. Shak.

A European herbaceous plant (Achillea Ptarmica) allied to the yarrow, having a strong, pungent smell.

ity; sociology. It concerns itself with questions of the public health, education, labor, punishment of crime, reformation of criminals, and the like. -- Social whale (Zoöl.), the blackfish. -- The social evil, prostitution.

he native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment. His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely commissioned, who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary; that human sin was the imitation of Adam's sin, and that human salvation was the imitation a…

To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to. Spare us, good Lord. Book of Common Prayer. Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages. Milton. Man alone can whom he conquers spare. Waller.

A vegetable production of many kinds, fragrant or aromatic and pungent to the taste, as pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, allspice, ginger, cloves, etc., which are used in cookery and to flavor sauces, pickles, etc. Hast thou aught in thy purse [bag] any hot spices Piers Plowman.

The silken web which is formed by most kinds of spiders, particularly the web spun to entrap their prey. See Geometric spider, Triangle spider, under Geometric, and Triangle.

; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material. All the yarn she [Penelope] spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca full of moths. Shak.

See Spunk.

1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.