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y, a wild or visionary theory. E. Everett. The world grew light-headed, and forth came a spawn of isms which no man can number. S. G. Goodrich.

spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece. Baby jumper. See in the Vocabulary. -- Bounty jumper. See under Bounty.

A salmon after spawning. [Scot.]

A salmon after spawning.

reason of waterfalls or dams; -- said of fishes that would naturally seek the sea, after spawning; as, the landlocked salmon.

ry. -- To lay in lavender. (a) To lay away, as clothing, with sprigs of lavender. (b) To pawn. [Obs.]

Viscid; viscous; tenacious. Spawn of a lentous and transparent body. Sir T. Browne.

d, or at which the accounts of loans are kept, and the interest paid to the lender. (b) A pawnbroker's shop.

Same as Lombard-house. A Lombard unto this day signifying a bank for usury or pawns. Fuller.

A bank or a pawnbroker's shop.

A pawnbroker. [Obs.] Howell.

The Pawnees, a tribe of North American Indians whose principal totem was the wolf.

A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [Obs.] They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came. Lady Murray.

ral males; -- said of certain fishes of which several males accompany each female during spawning.

One of certain public pawnbroking establishments which originated in Italy in the 15th century, the object of which was to lend money at a low rate of interest to poor people in need; -- called also mount of piety. The institution has been adopted in other countries, as in Spain and France. See Lombard-house.…

Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn. [U.S.]

ration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn.

filamentous growth from which a mushroom or fungus is developed; the so-called mushroom spawn. -- My*ce"li*al, a.

To pledge; to pawn. [Obs.] Bacon.

Same as Pawl.