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or addition. Addendum circle (Mech.), the circle which may be described around a circular spur wheel or gear wheel, touching the crests or tips of the teeth. Rankine.

Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious. -- A*dul"ter*ate*ly, adv. -- A*dul"ter*ate*ness, n.

Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal. When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

Characterized by adulteration; spurious. "An adulterous mixture." [Obs.] Smollett.

Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious works. Sir G. C. Lewis.

To spurn; to despise. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

To set aside or reject as spurious, as by marking with an obelus.

Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so. That bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices. Barrow.

Bastardlike; baseborn; spuripous; corrupt. [Obs.] -- adv.

Same as Bespurt.

In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes. Shak.

Having two spurs, as the wing or leg of a bird.

sheartened or dejected. -- True blue, genuine and thorough; not modified, nor mixed; not spurious; specifically, of uncompromising Presbyterianism, blue being the color adopted by the Covenanters.

Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit. [Colloq. U. S.]

a, by bracing and binding them from their infancy, have very little feet. Locke. Some who spurs had first braced on. Sir W. Scott.

To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

Any brief, violent evertion or effort; a spurt; as, a burst of speed.

Except with; unless with; without. [Obs.] So insolent that he could not go but either spurning equals or trampling on his inferiors. Fuller. Touch not the cat but a glove. Motto of the Mackintoshes.

A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.

Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred. Gray.