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ovisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry. Chiefly Brit. dial. [MW10] In . . . his spence, or "pantry" were hung the carcasses of a sheep or ewe, and two cows lately slaughtered. Sir W. Scott. Bluff Harry broke into the spence, And turned the cowls adrift. Tennyson.

One who has the care of the spence, or buttery. [Obs.] Promptorium Parvulorum.

See Dispense. [Obs.]

Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory; as, adminicular evidence. H. Spencer.

acts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes H. Spencer.

Connection in the way of descent. H. Spencer.

spiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.

l and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.

ssociable, or capable of association; associableness. "The associability of feelings." H. Spencer.

We know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another. H. Spencer.

The creation or evolution of the stars or the heavens. H. Spencer.

A discipline of unlimited autocracy, upheld by rods, and ferules, and the black hole. H. Spencer.

of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living. H. Spencer.

recognize. The reasoning faculty can deal with no facts until they are cognized by it. H. Spencer.

intensity or degree; as, the relations between 6 and 12, and 8 and 16, are cointense. H. Spencer.

sen indicate the equality of relations in respect of the contrast between their terms. H. Spencer.

s. [R.] The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth. H. Spencer.

ary temperatures, but condenses into a very volatile liquid at the zero of Fahrenheit. H. Spencer.

s in kind between either two changes in consciousness, or two states of consciousness. H. Spencer.

followed by desistance . . . then would the system be but seldom out of working order. H. Spencer.