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A spring or mineral water; -- so called from a place of this name in Belgium.

A kind of spar; earth flax, or amianthus. [Obs.] oodward.

ng which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible. Pure space is capable neither of resistance nor motion. Locke.

A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters.

Wide; extensive. Sandys.

Without space. Coleridge.

See Spatial.

See Spatially. Sir W,Hamilton.

Extending far and wide; vast in extent. "A spacious plain outstretched in circuit wide." Milton.

A nail one or two inches long, of iron, brass, tin, or tinner iron, with a hole through the flattened head, used to mark stations in underground surveying.

A bravo; a bully; a duelist. Ld. Lytton.

A little spade. [Obs.]

A hart or stag three years old. [Written also spaid, spayade.]

Shoulder blade. [Prov. Eng.]

An American market fish (Chætodipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.

of the genus Scaphiopus, esp. S. Holbrookii, of the Eastern United States; -- called also spade toad.

As much as a spade will hold or lift.

One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine.

Bearing flowers on a spadix; of the nature of a spadix.

Spadiceous.