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A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also German wheat.

Zinc; -- especially so called in commerce and arts.

Of or belonging to the summer; as, æstival diseases. [Spelt also estival.]

To pass the summer in a state of torpor. [Spelt also estivate.]

ent of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration. Gray. [Spelt also estivation.]

The bone of the rump; also, the cut of beef surrounding this bone. [Spelt also edgebone.]

The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form). [Spelt also Alcoran.]

Divination by means of salt. [Spelt also halomancy.] Morin.

extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross. [Sometimes spelt ancred.]

hylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one. [Spelt also ankylose.] Owen.

ficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak. [Spelt also apeek.]

arsenic; -- said some elementary substances or radicals; as, arseniureted hydrogen. [Also spelt arseniuretted.]

e shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt. [Also spelt bawdrick.] A radiant baldric o'er his shoulder tied Sustained the sword that glittered at his side. Pope.

cious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root. [Also spelt berberry.]

The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels. [Also spelt barretry.] Coke. Blackstone.

, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad. [Spelt also baudkin, baudkyn, bawdekin, and baldakin.] Nares.

A halfpenny. [Spelt also baubee.] [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

t; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green. [Also spelt beretta, biretta, etc.]

To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. [Spelt also bestrow.] Milton.

of zinc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened. [Spelt also bidry, bidree, bedery, beder.]