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Of or pertaining to space. "Spatial quantity and relations." L. H. Atwater.

As regards space.

To rove; to ramble. [Obs.] Bacon.

bstance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud. Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people. Burke.

The common yellow water lily (Nuphar advena).

Wearing spatterdashes. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

Coverings for the legs, to protect them from water and mud; long gaiters.

Spawl; spittle. [Obs.] Bale.

A kind of catchfly (Silene inflata) which is sometimes frothy from the action of captured insects.

An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc. Cf. Palette knife, under Palette.

Shaped like spatula, or like a battledoor, being roundish, with a long, narrow, linear base. [Also written spathulate.]

The shoulder. [Scot.]

s is due to the inflammation, and not the bony tumor as popularly supposed. Harbaugh. Bog spavin, a soft swelling produced by distention of the capsular ligament of the hock; -- called also blood spavin. -- Bone spavin, spavin attended with exostosis; ordinary spavin.

Affected with spavin.

See Spa.

A splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. See Spall.

That which is spawled, or spit out.

To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt. One edition [of books] spawneth another. Fuller.

A mature female fish. The barbel, for the preservation or their seed, both the spawner and the milter, cover their spawn with sand. Walton.

The male of the red deer in his third year; a spade.