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One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders.

Same as Spinny. T. Hughes.

from Spin. Spinning gland (Zoöl.), one of the glands which form the material for spinning the silk of silkworms and other larvæ. -- Spinning house, formerly a common name for a house of correction in England, the women confined therein being employed in spinning. -- Spinning jenny (Mach.), an engine or machine for sp…

A small thicket or grove with undergrowth; a clump of trees. [Written also spinney, and spinny.] The downs rise steep, crowned with black fir spinnies. C. Kingsley.

Full of spines; armed with thorns; thorny.

The quality or state of being spiny or thorny; spininess.

Spinose; thorny.

The form of Pantheism taught by Benedict Spinoza, that there is but one substance, or infinite essence, in the universe, of which the so-called material and spiritual beings and phenomena are only modes, and that one this one substance is God. [Written also Spinosism.]

A believer in Spinozism.

A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin. She spake to spinster to spin it out. Piers Plowman. The spinsters and the knitters in the sun. Shak.

A woman who spins. T. Brown.

The business of one who spins; spinning. [Obs.] Milton.

ed by the continual bombardment of the screen by the a rays are thus rendered visible. -- Spin*thar`i*scop"ic (#), a.

A minute spine. Dana.

Having small spines; somewhat thorny.

Covered with small spines.

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

Having two spines.

Of or pertaining to the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord. Cerebro-spinal fluid (Physiol.), a serous fluid secreted by the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. -- Cerebro-spinal meningitis, Cerebro-spinal fever (Med.), a dangerous epidemic, and endemic, febrile disease, characteri…

A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.