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Spite. [Obs.] Spenser.

Same as Spickenel.

An aromatic plant of America. See Spikenard.

A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock. Spigot and faucet joint, a joint for uniting pipes, formed by the insertion of the end of one pipe, or pipe fitting, into a socket at the end of another.

Formerly the title of the sealer of writs in chancery. Mozley & W.

Straight in form or upright in position; erect. [Obs.] Shak.

Situated under the epiglottis.

imp. of Underpitch.

The capybara.

See Pight.

An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.

its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea.

lowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly applied to a collection of ancient Greek epigrams.

agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium. Dunglison.

The wild Guinea pig of Brazil (Cavia aperea).

arbute tree. Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.…

An atom; a mite; a pigmy.

A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate.

Fat; grease; esp. the fat of pigs or geese; usually (Pharm.), lard prepared for medical use.

The clear blue color of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this color. "In robes of azure." Wordsworth.