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A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See Spright. Gaping graves received the wandering, guilty sprite. Dryden.

See Sprightful, Sprightfully, Sprightliness, Sprightly, etc.

A sail extended by a sprit.

A native of, or resident in, Stagira, in ancient Macedonia; especially, Aristotle. [Written also Stagyrite.]

One who writes short stories, as for magazines.

The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.

A steel-gray mineral of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of silver and copper.

Any sponge of the genus Suberites and allied genera. These sponges have a fine and compact texture, and contain minute siliceous spicules.

Situated under the peritoneal membrane.

The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit.

A person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a voluptuary.

Of or pertaining to the Sybarites; resembling the Sybarites; luxurious; wanton; effeminate. "Sybaritic dinners." Bp. Warburton. "Sybaritical cloistres." Bp. Hall.

Luxuriousness; effeminacy; wantonness; voluptuousness.

One of certain Bohemian reformers who suffered persecution in the fifteenth century; -- so called from Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their struggles.

A hydrous chloride of calcium and magnesium occurring in yellowish masses which rapidly deliquesce upon exposure. It is found in the salt mines at Stassfurt.

A salt of tellurous acid.

Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war.

Tenderness. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

An igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase and either leucite or nephelite, or both.

Of or pertaining to territory or land; as, territorial limits; territorial jurisdiction.