spay'd. SPA'TTERDASHES. n. s.[spatter and dash.] 1. To produce eggs as fish. Coverings for the legs by which the wet The fish having spawned before, the fry that is kept off. goes down hath had about three months growth SPA'TTLING Poppy. n. s. [papaver spu under ground, when they are brought up again. Browne meum.] White behen : a plant which is a species of campion. Miller. 2. To issue ; to proceed. In contempt. SPA'TUL A. . S. [spatha, spatbula, Lat.) It is so ill a quality, and the mother of so many ill ones that spawn from it, that a child A spattle or slice. should be brought up in the greatest abhorrence Spatula is an instrument used by apothecaries of it. Locke. and surgeons in spreading plaisters or stirring Spa'wNER. n. s. [from spawn.] The femedicines together. Quincy. male fish. In raising up the hairy scalp smooth with my The barbel, for the preservation of their seed, spetula, I could discover no fault in the bone. Wiseman. both the spawner and the melter, cover their spawn with sand. Walton. SPA'vin, r. s. [espavent, Fr. spavano, Ital.] This disease in horses is a bony TO SPAY. v. a. [spado, Lat.) To castrate female animals. excrescence, or crust as hard as a bone, that grows on the inside of the hough, Be dumb, you beggars of the rythming trade; not far from the elbow, and is generated Geld your loose wits, and let your muse be Cleaveland. of the same matter by which the bones The males must be gels, and the sows spayed; or ligaments are nourished : it is at first the spayed they esteem as the most profitable, like a tender gristle, but by degrees because of the great quantity of fat upon the in wards. Farrier's Dict. Mortimer, comes to hardness. They've all new legs and lame ones; one TO SPEAK. v. n. preterit spake or spoke ; would take it, participle passive spoken. [rpecan, Sax. That never saw them pace before, the spavin And springhalt reign'd among them. Sbaksp. spreken, Dutch.] If it had been a spavin, and the ass had peti 1. To utter articulate sounds; to express tioned for another farrier, it might have been thoughts by words. reasonable. L'Estrange. Speaking is nothing else than a sensible er. SPAW. n. s. (from Spaw in Germany.) A pression of the notions of the mind, by several place famous for mineral waters ; any discriminations of utterance of voice, used as signs, having by consent several determinate sigmineral water. nificancies. Holder. TO SPAWL. v. n. [rpærlian, to spit, Sax.] Hannah spake in her heart ; only her lips To throw moisture out of the mouth. moved, but her voice was not heard. 'I Samuel. He who does on iv'ry tables dine, 2. To harangue; to make a speech. His marble floors with drunken spawling shine. Many of the nobility made themselves popu Dryden. lar by speaking in parliament against those things What mischief can the dean have done him, which were most grateful to his majesty, and That Traulus calls for vengeance on him? which still passed, notwithstanding their contraWhy must he sputter, spawl, and slaver it, diction. Clarendor. In vain, against the people's fav'rite? Swift. Thersites, though the most presumptuous SPAWL. n. s. [rpari, Saxon.) Spittle ; Greek, moisture ejected from the mouth. Yet durst not for Achilles' armour speak. Dryd. Of spittle she lustration makes; 3. To talk for or against ; to dispute. Then in the spawl her middle finger dips, A knave should have some countenance at his Anoints the temple, forehead, and the lips. Dryden. friend's request. An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. Sbakse. SPAWN. n. s. [spone, spenne, Dutch.] The general and his wife are talking of it; 1. The eggs of fish or of frogs. And she speaks for you stoutly. Sbakspeare. Masters of the people, 'When he had no power, Your multiplying spawn how can he flatter He was your enemy; still spake against That's thousand to one good one? Sbakspeare. Your liberties and charters. Sbakspear: God said, let the waters generate 4. To discourse; to make mention. Reptile, with spawn abundant, living soul! Were such things here as we do speak about! Milton. Or have we eaten of the insane root, . with frogs, and a great deal of spawn. Ray. Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law. 2. Any product or offspring. In contempt. Genieski, ST was not the spawn of such as these The fire you speak of, That dy'd with Punick blood the conquer'd seas, If any flames of it approach my fortunes, And quash'd the stern Æacides, Roscommon. I'll quench it not with water, but with ruin. This atheistical humour was the spawn of the Ben Fomisk gross superstitions of the Romish church and The scripture speaks only of those to whom it Tillotson. speaks. Hammond. To SPAwN. v. a. [from the noun.) They could never be lost but by an universal 1. To produce as fishes do eggs. deluge, which has been spoken to already. Some report a sea-maid spawnd him. Sbaks. 2. To generate ; to bring forth. In con. Lucan speaks of a part of Cæsar's army, that temp. came to him from the Leman-lake, in the beginning of the civil war. Addison, whar practices such principles as these may spawn, vihen they are laid out to the sun, you Had Luther spoke up to this accusation, yet may determine, Chrysostom's example would have been his deSwift. fence. Atterbury, T. SPAWN. V. m. s. To give sound. court, Tillotson Make all your trumpets speak, give them all I have disabled myself, like an elected speaker breath, of the house. Drydon. Those clam'rous harbingers of blood and death. SPEAKING Trumpet. n. s. A stentòropho Sbakspears. 6. TO SPEAK with. To address ; to con nick instrument; a trumpet by which the voice may be propagated to a great verse with. distance. Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy sails, We'll speak with thee at sea. Shakspeare. That with one blast through the whole house does bound, I spate with one that came from thence, Thai freely render'd me these news for true. And first taught speaking trumpet how to sound. Dryden. Sbakspeare. SPEAR. n. s. [ys-per, Welsh; rpere, Sax. Nicholas was by a herald sent for to come into the great bassa; Solyman disdaining to speak spere, Dutch; spare, old Fr. sparum, low witb him himself, Knolles. Latin.) TO SPEAK, V. a. 1. A long weapon with a sharp point, used 1. To utter with the mouth ; to pro- in thrusting or throwing; a lance. nounce. Those brandishers of speares, Mordecai had spoken good. Esther. From many cities drawn, are they that are our Consider of it, take advice, and speak your hinderers. Chapman. minds. Judges. Th' Ægyptian, like a hill, himself did rear, They sat down with him upon the ground, Like some tall tree ; upon it seem'd a spear. and none spake a word. Job. Cowley. When divers were hardened, and believed not, Nor wanted in his grasp but spake evil of that way before the multitude, What seem'd both shield and speur. Milton. he departed. Acts. The flying spear. Sung innocent, and spent its force in air. Pope. Have known and tried me, speak I more than The rousd-up lion, resolute and slow, truth? Sandys. Advances full on the protended spear. Thomson. What you keep by you, you may change and 2. A lance, generally with prongs, to kill mend, fish. But words once spoke can never be recall'a. The borderers watching, until they be past Waller. up into some narrow creek, below them cast a Under the tropick is our language spoke, strong corded net athwart the stream, with And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke. which, and their loud shouting, they stop them Waller. from retiring, until the ebb have abandoned He no where speaks it out, or in direct terms them to the hunters mercy, who, by an old cuscalls them substances. Locke. tom, share them with such indifferency, as, if a Colours speak all languages, but words are un- woman with child be present, the babe in her derstood only by such a people or nation. womb is gratified with a portion: a point also ob Spectator. served by the spear hunters in taking of salmons. 2. To proclaim ; to celebrate. Carew. It is my father's musick To SPEAR. v. n. (from the noun.) To kill To speak your deeds, not little of his care or pierce with a spear. To have them recompensed. Sbakspeare. To SPEAR. v.a. To shoot or sprout. This 3. To address; to accost. If he have need of thee, he will deceive thee, is commonly written spire. smile upon thee, put thee in hope, speak thee Let them not lie lest they should spear, and the air dry and spoil the shoot. fair, and say, What wantest thou? Ecclesiasticus, Mortimer, SPEA'R GRASS. n. s. [spear and grass.] 4. To exhibit ; to make known. Let heav'n's wide circuit speak Long stiff grass. The Maker's high magnificence. Milton, Tickle our noses with speargrass to maka SPE'A KABLE. adj. [from speak.] them bleed; and then beslúbber our garments with it. Sbakspeare. 1. Possible to be spoken. 2. Having the power of speech. SPEA'RMAN. n. s. [spear and man.] One Say, who uses a lance in fights How cam'st thou speakable of műte? Milton. The spearman's arm, by thee, great God, diSPEA'KER. n. s. [from speak.] rected, 1. One that speaks. Sends forth a certain wound. Prior. "These fames grew so general, as the authors SPEA'RMINT. n. s. (mentha Romana, Lat.) were lost in the generality of speakers. Bacon. A plant ; a species of mint. In conversation or reading, find out the true SPE'ARWORT. n. s. [ranunculus flammeus, sense, the idea which the speaker or writer af- Lat.) An herb. Ainsworth. fixes to his words. Watts. Common speakers have only one set of ideas; SPECIAL. adj. [special, Fr. specialis, Lat.) and one set of words to clothe them in; and 1. Noting a sort or species. these are always ready at the mouth. Swift. A special idea is called by the schools a species, W'atis. 2. One that speaks in any particular man 2. Particular; peculiar. Horace's phrase is,“ torret jecur ;" Most commonly with a certain special grace And happy was that curious speaker. Prior. of her own, wagging her lips, and grinning instead of smiling. Sidney. 3. One that celebrates, proclaims, or The several books of scripture, having had mentions. each some several occasion and particular purAfter my death, I wish no other herald, pose which caused them to be written, the colNo other speaker of my living actions, tents thereof are according to the exigence of To keep mine honour from corruption. Shaksp. that special end whereunto they are intended. The prolocutor of the commons. Hooker. ner. me, Of all men alive, natures, but letteth loose the guard of individuals I never yet beheld that special face, or single existencies. Brown. Which I could fancy more than any other. Shak. The Phenix Pindar is a whole species alone. Nought so vile that on the earth doth live, Curulez. For we are animals no less, Hudibras. Our Saviour is represented every where in A mind of superior or meiner capacities scripture as the special patron of the poor and than human would constitute a different species, the afficted, and aslaying their interest to heart though united to a human body in the same more nearly than those of any other of his laws of connexion : and a mind of human capamembers. Atterbury. cities would make another species, if united to a 3. Appropriate; designed for a particular different body in difierent law's or connexion. Bentleg. purpose. O'Nca!, upon his marriage with a daughter of 3. Appearance to the senses; any visible Davies. An apparent diversity between the species Such things are evident by natural light, visible and audible is, that the visible doth not which men of a mature age, in the ordinary use niingie in the medium, but the audible doth. of their faculties, with the common help of mu Bacon. tual society, may know and be sufhcientiy as- It is a most certain rule, how much any bizdy sured of without the help of any special revela- hath of colour, so much hath it of opacity, and tion. Wilkins. by so much the more untit it is to transmit the 4. Extraordinary; uncommon. species. Rav. That which necessity of some special time The species of the letters illuminated with doth cause to be enjoined, bindeth no longer blue were nearer to the lens than those illumi. than during that time, but doth afterward be- nated with deep red, by about three inches, or come free, Haker. three and a quarter ; but the species of the lef. The other scheme takes special care to attri ters illuminated with indigo and violet appeared bute all the work of conversion to grace. so confused and indistinct, that I could not read Hammond. them. Nortor. Though our charity should be universal, yet 4. Representation to the mind. as it cannot be actually exercised but on par. Wit in the poet, or wit-writing, is no other ticular times, so it shouid be chicfly on special than the faculty of imagination in the writer, opportunities. Spratt. which searches over all the memory for the He bore species or ideas of those things which is designs A paunch of the same bulk before; to represent. Dryden. Which still he had a special care 5. Show; visible exhibition. Not in use; To keep well cramm'd with thrifty fare. and perhaps, in the following quotation, Hudibras. misprinted for spectacles. 3. Chief in excellence. Shews and species serve best with the people. The king hath drawn Bacon. The special head of all the land together. Sbaks. 6. Circulating money. Spe'cially. adv. [from speciul.] As there was in the splendour of the Roman 1. Particularly, above others. empire a less quantity of current species in EuSpecially the day that thou stoodest before rope than there is now, Rome possessed a much the Lord. Deuteronomy. greater proportion of the circulating species of A brother beloved, specially to inc. Pbil. its time than any European city. Arbutbrot. 2. Not in a common way; peculiarly. 7. Simples that have place in a compound If there be matter of law that carries any dif- medicine. ficulty, the jury niay, to deliver themselves from Speci'fiCAL. adj. [specifique, Fr. species an attaint, nnd it specially. Hale. SPECIALTY. n. s. I specialité, Fr. from SPECIFICK, S and facio, Lat.] SPECIA’LITY.S special.] Particularity. 1. That makes a thing of the species of On these two general heads all other speciali which it is. ties are dependent. Hooker. That thou to truth the perfect way may'st The packet is not come know, Where that and other specialties are bound. To thee all her specifick forms I'll show. Denb. Sbukspeare. The understanding, as to the exercise of this Speciality of rule hath been neglected. Sbuks. power, is subject to the command of the will, When men were sure, that, in case they though, as to the specifick nature of its acts, it is rested upon a bare contract without specieliiv, determined by the object. South. the other party might wage his law, they would By whose direction is the nutriment so regu. not rest upon such contracts without reducing Jarly distributed into the respective parts, and the debt into a speciality, which accorded many how are they kept to their specifick uniformities? Hale. Glanville, These principles I consider not as occult SPECIES. 1. s. [species, Latin.) qualities, supposed to result from the specifiek 1. A sort; a subdivision of a general term. forms of things, but as general laws of nature, A special idea is called by the schools a spe- by which the things themselves are formed; cics; it is one common nature that agrees to their truth appearing to us by phænomena, several singular individual beings: so horse is a though their causes be not yet discovered. special idea or species, as it agrees to Bucephalus, Trot, and Snowball. Waits. Newton. As all things were formed according to these 2. Class of nature ; single order of beings. specifical platforms, so their truth must be mea He intendech the care of species or common sured from their conformity to them. Norris. suits. Specifick graviry is the appropriate and pecu- Greece, where the countries, and the uses of har gravity or weight which any species of na their soils, are specified. Pope. tural bodies have, and by which ihey are plainly SPEʼCIMEN, n. s. [specimen, Latin.) A distinguishable from all other bodies of different sample ; a part of any thing exhibited, kinds. Quincy. that the rest may be known. The specifick qualities of plants reside in their Several persons have exhibited specimens of native spirit, oil, and essential salt: for the water, this art before multitudes of beholders. Spectator.' fixt salt, and earth, appear to be the same in all pants. Arbuthnot. SPE'cious. adj. (specieux, Fr. speciosus, Specifick difference is that primary attribute Latin.] which distinguishes each species from one an- 1. Showy; pleasing to the view. ocher, while they stand ranked under the same The rest, far greater part, general nature or genus. Though wine differs Will deem in outward rices and specious forms from other liquids, in that it is the juice of a cer- Religion satisfied. Miltun. tain fruit, yet this is but a general or generick She next I took to wife, difference; for it does not distinguish wine from O that I never had ! fond wish too late ! order or perry: the specifick difference of wine Was in the vale of Sorec, Dalila, therefore is its pressure from the grape; as cy- That specious monster, my accomplish'd snare. der is pressed from apples, and perry from pears. Alilton, Watts. 2. Plausible; superficially, not solidly (In medicine.] Appropriated to the right; striking at first view. cure of some particular distemper. It Bad men boast is usually applied to the arcano, or me Their specious deeds on earth which glory ex. dicines that work by occult qualities. cites, The operation of purging medicines has been Or close ambition varnish'd o'er with zeal. Milt. seferred to a hidden propriety, a spezifical virtue, Somewhat of specious they must have to reand the like shifts of ignoracce. Bacon. commend themselves to princes; for foily will If she would drink a good decoction of sarsa, not easily go down in its natural form. Dryden, with the usual specificks, she might enjoy a good Temptation is of greater danger, because it is health. Wiseman. covered with the specious names of good nature SPECI'FICALLY. adv. (from specifick.] and good manners. Rogers, This is the only specious objection which our In such a manner as to constitute a Romish adversaries urge against the doctrine of species; according to the nature of the this church in the point of celibacy. Atterbury. species. SPECIOUSLY. adv. (from specious.] With His faith must be not only living, but lively fair appearance, too; it must be put into a posture by a particular exercise of those several virtues that are sper Piety is opposed to hypocrisy and insincerity; especially to that personated devotion under sifically requisite to a due performance of this which any kind of impiety is wont to be disduty. South. guised, and put off more speciously. Hammond. (rpecec, Saxon.] A small specifically, differ from the fantastick reason of brutes, which have no conceit of truth, as an discoloration ; a spot. aggregate of divers simple conceits, nor of any Every speck does not blind a man. other universal. Grew. Government of the Tongue. He must allow that bodies were endowed with Then are they happy, when the same affections then as ever since; and that, No speck is left of their habitual stains ; if an axe head be supposed to float upon water, But the pure æther of the soul remains. Dryde which is specifically lighter, it had been super To SPECK. v. a. To spot; to stain in natural, Bentley. drops. TO SPECIFICATE, V. a. (from species and Flow'r facio, Lat.) To mark by notation of Carnation, purple, azure, or speck'd with gold. Milton. distinguishing particularities. Man, by the instituted law of his creation, SPE’CKLE. 9. sı[from speck.] Small speck; and the common influence of the divine goodness, is enabled to act as a reasonable creature, To SPE'CKLE, v. a. [from the noun.) To without any particular, specifwating, concurrent, mark with small spots. new imperate act of the divine special pro- So dreadfully he towards him did pass, vidence. Biule. Forelifting up aloft his speckled breast, SPECIFICA’TION. n. s. [from specifak; And often bounding on the bruised grass, specification, Fr.] As for great joy of his new comen guest. 1. Distinct notation ; determination by a Fairy Qucek. Speckled vanity peculiar mark. Will sicken soon and die, This specification or limitation of the question, hinders the disputers from wandering away from And leprous sin will inelt from earthly mould. Milton. the precise point of enquiry. Saw'st thou not late a speckled serpent rear 2. Particular mention. His gilded spires to climb on yon fair tree? The constitution here speaks generally, with- Before this happy minute I was he. Dryden. out the specification of any place. dylife. The smiling infant in his hand shall tako To Specify.v.a. (from species; specifier, The crested basilisk and speckled snake; French.) To mention; to show by some Pleas'd the green lustre of the scales survev, particular mark of distinction. And with their forky tongue and pointless sting As the change of such laws as have been spe shall play: Pojice rified is necessary, so the evidence that they are The tortoise here and elephant unite, such must be great. Hooker. Transform’d to combs, the speckled and the St. Peter doth not spe:ify what these waters white. Pope. Burnet. SPECKT or Speight. 11. S. A woodpecker. He has there given us an exact geography of Ainsworth. little spot. 'W'alts. were. ness. Shakspeare; SPECTACLE. n. s. [spectacle, Fr. spectacu- The very poetical use of the word, for a spectre lun, Latin.] doth imply an exact resemblance to some real 1. A show; a gazing stock; any thing being it represents. Stilling fleet. exhibited to the view as eminently re These are nothing but spectres the under. markable. standing raises to itself, to flatter its own lazi Locke. In open place produc'd they me, To be a publick spectiele to all. Shakspeare. 2. Something made preternaturally visible. We are made a spectacle unto angels and men. SPECTRUM. n. s. (Latin.] An image; a 1 Corinthians. visible form. 2. Any thing perceived by the sight. This prism had some veins running along Forth riding underneath the castle wall, within the glass, from the one end to the other, A dunghill of dead carcases he spy'd, which scattered some of the sun's light irregue The dreadful spectacle of that sad house of pride. larly, but had no sensible effect in increasing the Fairy Queen. length of the coloured spectrum. Newton, When pronouncing sentence, seem not glad; SPECULAR. adj. [specularis, Latin.] Such spectacles, though they are just, are sad. Denham. 1. Having the qualities of a mirror or look. 3. [In the plural.] Glasses to assist the ing glass. It were but madness now t' impart sight. The skill of specular stone. Donne. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, Quicksilver may, by the fire alone, in glass vessels, be turned into a red body; and from this With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side. red body may be obtained a mercury, bright and specular as before. Boyle We have helps for sight above spectacles and A speculum of metal without glass, made glasses. Bacon. some years since for optical uses, and very well Shakspeare was naturally learned: he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he wrought, produced none of those rings; and thence I understood that these rings arise not looked inwards and found her there. Dryden. from the specular surface alone, but depend up. The first spectacle-maker did not think that on the two surfaces of the plate of glass whereof he was leading the way to the discovery of new the speculum was made, and upon the thickness planets. Grew, Newton. This is the reason of the decay of sight in old men, and shews why their sight is mended by 2. Assisting sight. Improper. The hidden way spectacles. Newton. Of nature wouldst thou know, how first she This day then let us not be cold, frames That you are sick, and I grown old; Nor think on our approaching ills, All things in miniature, thy specular orb And talk of spectacles and pills. Swift. Apply to well-dissected kernels; lo! In each observe the slender threads PE'CTACLED, adj. (from the noun.) Fur- Of first-beginning trees. Pbilips. nished with spectacles: To SPE'CULATE. v. n. (speculer, French; All tongues speak of him, and the bleared speculor, Latin.) To meditate; to consights Are spectacled to see him. Sbko'tare. template ; to take a view of any thing SPECTA'Tion. n. so [spectatio, Lalin.] with the mind. Consider the quantity, and not speculate upon Regard ; respect. an intrinsecal relation. Digby. This simple spectation of the lungs is differ As news-writers record facts which afford enced from that which concomitates a pleurisy. great matter of speculation, their readers specue Harvey. late accordingly, and, by their variety of conjecSPECTA’TOR. n. s. [spectateur, French ; tures, become consummate statesmen. Addison. spectator, Latin.) A looker-on; a be- TO SFE'CULATE. v. a. To consider attenholder. tively; to look through with the mind. More Man was not meant to gape, or look upward, Than history can pattern, though devis'd but to have his thoughts sublime; and not only And play'd to take spectators. Sbakspeare. behold, but speculate their nature with the eye If it proves a good repast to the spectators, the of the understanding. Brown, dish pays the shot. Shakspeare. SrecULA'TION. n. s. [speculation, Fr. from An old gentleman mounting on horseback, got speculate. ) up heavily; but desired the spectators that they would count fourscore and eight before they 1. Examination by the eye ; view. judged him. Dryden. 2. Examiner ; spy. This word is found He mourns his former vigour lost so far, no where else, and probably is here mis. To make him now spectator of a war. Dryden. printed for speculator. What pleasure hath the owner more than the They who have, as who have not, whom their spectator? Seed, great stars SPECTA'TORSHIP. n. s. [from spectator.] Throne and set high? servants Act of beholding: Which are to France the spies and speculations, Thou stand'st i'th' state of hanging, or of Intelligent of our state. Sbakspeare's King Lear. some death more long in spectatorship, and cru- 3. Mental view; intellectual examination; eller in suffering. Shakspeare. contemplation. SPE'CTRE, n. s. [spectre, Fr. spectrum, In all these things being fully persuaded, that Latin.] what they did, it was obedience to the will of I. Apparition ; appearance of persons God, and that all men should do the like; there dead. remained, after speculation, practice whereunto the whole world might be framed. Hooker. The ghosts of traitors from the bridge de Thenceforth to speculations high or deep scend, With bold fanatick spestres to rejoice. Dryden. I turn'd my thoughts; and with capacious mind Milton a |