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A name for several East Indian, or their wood, used for the masts and spars of vessels, as Calophyllum angustifolium, C. inophullum, and Sterculia foetida; -- called also peon.

A kind of oil cake prepared from the cocoanut. See Oil cake, under Cake.

ing, to thin paper, producing flowers, birds, etc., in imitation of Oriental work. Hence: Poonah brush, paper, painter, etc.

A kind of oil used in India for lamps, and for boiling with dammar for pitching vessels. It is pressed from the seeds of a leguminous tree (Pongamia glabra).

A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc.

ngular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun. Harpoon fork, a kind of hayfork, consisting of bar with hinged barbs at one end a loop for a rope at the other end, used for lifting hay from the load by horse power. -- Harpoon gun, a gun used in the whale fishery for shooting the…

An harpooner. Grabb.

One who throws the harpoon.

A part of the breastbone. [Obs.] He feeleth through the herte-spon the pricke. Chaucer.

The duykerbok.

usive censure written only to reproach and distress. Like her who missed her name in a lampoon, And grieved to find herself decayed so soon. Dryden.

The writer of a lampoon. "Libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers." Tatler.

The act of lampooning; a lampoon, or lampoons.

See Spoom. [Obs.] We might have spooned before the wind as well as they. Pepys.

Having the bill expanded and spatulate at the end.

Food that is, or must be, taken with a spoon; liquid food. "Diet most upon spoon-meats." Harvey.

Any one of several species of wading birds of the genera Ajaja and Platalea, and allied genera, in which the long bill is broadly expanded and flattened at the tip.

Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift.

Weak-minded; demonstratively fond; as, spooney lovers. [Spelt also spoony.] [Colloq.]

The yautia.