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contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.

To kick with the foot; to spurn. Shak.

A spurred partidge of the genus Francolinus and allied genera, of Asia and Africa. The common species (F. vulgaris) was formerly common in southern Europe, but is now nearly restricted to Asia.

Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse.

A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock. Wright.

o drive cattle with. [Prov. Eng. Local, U.S.] Halliwell. Bartlett. Upon the gad, upon the spur of the moment; hastily. [Obs.] "All this done upon the gad!" Shak.

An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks.

A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.

in transmitted motion from one sprocket wheel to another. See Illust. of Chain wheel. -- Spur gearing, gearing in which the teeth or cogs are ranged round either the concave or the convex surface (properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc.

Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials. "True, genuine night." Dryden.

Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horse understands the heel well.

A cock that strikes well with his heels or spurs.

Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.

Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word. Illegitimate fertilization, or Illegitimate union (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers. Darwin.

To invent, or provide, offhand, or on the spur of the moment; as, he improvised a hammer out of a stone.

endency to incite, to determination or action; that which prompts to good or ill; motive; spur; as, the love of money, and the desire of promotion, are two powerful incentives to action. The greatest obstacles, the greatest terrors that come in their way, are so far from making them quit the work they had begun, that t…

To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on. Anthiochus, when he incited Prusias to join in war, set before him the greatness of the Romans. Bacon. No blown ambition doth our arms incite. Shak.

in, or added to, the original; introduced; foisted in; changed by the insertion of new or spurious matter.

The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially that which is spurious or foreign.

One who interpolates; esp., one who inserts foreign or spurious matter in genuine writings.