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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.

The quantity which a spoon contains, or is able to contain; as, a teaspoonful; a tablespoonful.

In a spoony manner.

The mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia).

A gephyrean worm of the genus Thalassema, having a spoonlike probiscis.

Scurvy grass.

Same as Spooney.

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

A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc.

As much as a tablespoon will hold; enough to fill a tablespoon. It is usually reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams.

A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes.

As much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon; -- usually reckoned at a fluid dram or one quarter of a tablespoonful.

A white metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under German.

assert that it can be found in the writings of Ambrose in the fourth century. -- Apostle spoon (Antiq.), a spoon of silver, with the handle terminating in the figure of an apostle. One or more were offered by sponsors at baptism as a present to the godchild. B. Jonson.