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A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc.

Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars.

ace; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity. An instrument with a small cavity, like a small spoon. Arbuthot. Abnormal spaces or excavations are frequently formed in the lungs, which are designated cavities or vomicæ. Quain. Body cavity, the coelum. See under Body.

A spoon. Andrews.

Spoon-shaped.

A short spoon.

se your honor," quoth the peasant, "This same dessert is not so pleasant." Pope. Dessert spoon, a spoon used in eating dessert; a spoon intermediate in size between a teaspoon and a tablespoon. -- Dessert-spoonful, n., pl. Dessert-spoonfuls, as much as a dessert spoon will hold, usually reckoned at about two and a hal…

A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.

A small South African antelope (Cephalous mergens); -- called also impoon, and deloo.

e volute or scroll at the head of a violin. -- Fiddle pattern, a form of the handles of spoons, forks, etc., somewhat like a violin. -- Scotch fiddle, the itch. (Low) -- To play first, or second, fiddle, to take a leading or a subordinate part. [Colloq.]

A spear with barbed prongs used for harpooning fish. Knight.

A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin Totten.

A kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig.

A spoon. [Prov. Eng. or Slang]

t. (Zoöl.) See under Pheasant. -- Gold plate, a general name for vessels, dishes, cups, spoons, etc., made of gold. -- Gold of pleasure. Etym: [Name perhaps translated from Sp. oro-de- alegria.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Camelina, bearing yellow flowers. C. sativa is sometimes cultivated for the oil of its seeds.…

An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points.

A harpoon. Evelyn.

imilar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn.

satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.

To satirize in iambics; to lampoon. [R.]