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A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

urns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley.

Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes. Lee.

Bearing ears, or spikes; spicate. [Obs.] Bailey.

Spike-shaped. Gray.

A spike or nail. [Prov. Eng.] Spick 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.

Having spikes, or ears, like corn spikes.

A little spike; a spikelet.

Covered with minute spiculæ, or pointed fleshy appendages; divided into small spikelets.

An aromatic plant of America. See Spikenard.

Like a spike; spikelike. These spiky, vivid outbursts of metallic vapors. C. A. Young.

it; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal. "Infants spitted upon pikes." Shak.

A kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers.

A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale, to strip off the blubber.

grass (Hordeum jubatum) found in salt marshes and along the Great Lakes, having a dense spike beset with long awns.

A small marline spike; a pricker.

a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike. And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar to bear it withal. Ex. xxxviii. 7. With forks and staves the felon to pursue. Dryden.

The ger pike.

which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species (T. mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna. Tamarisk salt tree, an East Indian tree (Tamarix orientalis) which produces an incrustation of salt.

Growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as, a terminal bud, flower, or spike. Terminal moraine. See the Note under Moraine. -- Terminal statue. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3. -- Terminal velocity. (a) The velocity acquired at the end of a body's motion. (b) The limit toward which the velocity of a body appro…