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Any one attached to a Mohammedan mosque, esp. a student of the higher branches of theology in a mosque school. [Written also sophta.]

spicion; a suggestion; hence, a very small portion; a taste; as, coffee with a soupçon of brandy; a soupçon of coquetry.

Quite new; brand-new; fire-new. "A span-new archbishop's chair." Fuller.

Placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; -- applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like.

The buds or branches produced from underground stems.

on, investigation, or discussion; as, a special dictionary of commercial terms; a special branch of study.

Devotion to a particular and restricted part or branch of knowledge, art, or science; as, medical specialism.

enterprise. The speculative merchant exercises no one regular, established, or well-known branch of business. A. Smith. -- Spec"u*la*tive*ly, adv. -- Spec"u*la*tive*ness, n.

te, Spherical excess, etc. See under Angle, Coordinate, etc. -- Spherical geometry, that branch of geometry which treats of spherical magnitudes; the doctrine of the sphere, especially of the circles described on its surface. -- Spherical harmonic analysis. See under Harmonic, a. -- Spherical lune,portion of the sur…

and span, quite new; that is, as new as a spike or nail just made and a chip just split; brand- new; as, a spick and span novelty. See Span-new. Howell.

Any one of the small branches on a stag's head. [Obs.] Howell.

a spire. Emerson. It is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, being more inclined to branch into arms. Mortimer.

Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors.

The branch of science which treats of the spleen.

Small branches of a tree; twigs; sprays. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A small shoot or branch; a twig. Chaucer. The painted birds, companions of the spring, Hopping from spray, were heard to sing. Dryden.

or cover a wide or wider space. Rose, as in a dance, the stately trees, and spread Their branches hung with copious fruit. Milton.

To mark or adorn with the representation of small branches; to work with sprigs; as, to sprig muslin.

Full of sprigs or small branches.

tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch.