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See Raspatory.

A surgeon's rasp. Wiseman.

ruit of the Rubus Idæus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red and the white raspberry.

One who, or which, rasps; a scraper.

The raspberry. [Obs.] Langham.

Like a rasp, or the sound made by a rasp; grating. R. D. Blackmore.

To clasp or unite again.

Retinite.

Embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul; as a leaf or petiole.

Situated above the sphenoidal bone; as, the suprasphenoidal appendage, or pituitary body.

Situated above a spine or spines; supraspinate; supraspinous.

Situated above a spine or spines; especially, situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the neural spines of the vertebral column, or above, or in front of, the spine of the scapula.

Having the posterior tarsal scales, or scutella, rectangular and arranged in regular rows; -- said of certain birds.

A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes.

As much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon; -- usually reckoned at a fluid dram or one quarter of a tablespoonful.

A machine in which four pulleys act together. Brande & C.

Having four seeds. Tetraspermous plant, a plant which produces four seeds in each flower.

A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds. -- Tet`ra*spor"ic, a.

Having the spores in thecæ, or cases.

To loose the clasp of; to open, as something that is fastened, or as with, a clasp; as, to unclasp a book; to unclasp one's heart.