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See Spa.

To scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit, as saliva. Why must he sputter, spawl, and slaver it In vain, against the people's favorite. Swift.

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.

To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle. [Obs.] Milton.

Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aëration of soil, of spawn, etc.

One of the ova or eggs of a fish. Travis. In berry, containing ova or spawn.

The female salmon in the spawning season.

Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn; -- opposed to anadromous, and of the eel.

other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster. [Also written cutch.]

The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding.

Fishes are more numerous of increasing than beasts or birds, as appears by their numerous spawn. Sir M. Hale.

ly, a wild or visionary theory. E. Everett. The world grew light-headed, and forth came a spawn of isms which no man can number. S. G. Goodrich.

A salmon after spawning. [Scot.]

A salmon after spawning.

reason of waterfalls or dams; -- said of fishes that would naturally seek the sea, after spawning; as, the landlocked salmon.

Viscid; viscous; tenacious. Spawn of a lentous and transparent body. Sir T. Browne.

eral males; -- said of certain fishes of which several males accompany each female during spawning.

uration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn.