Spell (n.) The relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spell at the pumps; a spell at the masthead.
Spell (n.) The time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days, or weeks.
Spell (n.) One of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells.
Spell (n.) A gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell.
Spell (n.) A story; a tale.
Spell (n.) A stanza, verse, or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm.
Spelled (imp. & p. p.) of Spell
Spelt () of Spell
Spelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spell
Spell (v. t.) To tell; to relate; to teach.
Spell (v. t.) To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
Spell (v. t.) To constitute; to measure.
Spell (v. t.) To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, esp. the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography.
Spell (v. t.) To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; -- usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible.
Spell (v. i.) To form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing.
Spell (v. i.) To study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study.
Spellable (a.) Capable of being spelt.
Spellbound (a.) Bound by, or as by, a spell.
Speller (n.) One who spells.
Speller (n.) A spelling book.
Spellful (a.) Abounding in spells, or charms.
Spelling (n.) The act of one who spells; formation of words by letters; orthography.
Spelling (a.) Of or pertaining to spelling.
Spellken (n.) A theater.
Spellwork (n.) Power or effect of magic; that which is wrought by magic; enchantment.
Spelt () imp. & p. p. of Spell. Spelled.
Spelt (n.) A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also German wheat.
Spelt (n.) Spelter.
Spelt (v. t. & i.) To split; to break; to spalt.
Spelter (n.) Zinc; -- especially so called in commerce and arts.
Spelunc (n.) A cavern; a cave.
Spence (n.) A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry.
Spence (n.) The inner apartment of a country house; also, the place where the family sit and eat.
Spencer (n.) One who has the care of the spence, or buttery.
Spencer (n.) A short jacket worn by men and by women.
Spencer (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802].
Spent (imp. & p. p.) of Spend
Spending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spend
Spend (v. t.) To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
Spend (v. t.) To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
Spend (v. t.) To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
Spend (v. t.) To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.
Spend (v. t.) To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.
Spend (v. i.) To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.
Spend (v. i.) To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.
Spend (v. i.) To be diffused; to spread.
Spend (v. i.) To break ground; to continue working.
Spender (n.) One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
Spending (n.) The act of expending; expenditure.
Spendthrift (n.) One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively.
Spendthrift (a.) Prodigal; extravagant; wasteful.
Spendthrifty (a.) Spendthrift; prodigal.
Spenserian (a.) Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faerie Queene."
Spent (a.) Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.
Spent (a.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes.
Sper (v. t.) Alt. of Sperre
Sperre (v. t.) To shut in; to support; to inclose; to fasten.
Sperable (a.) Within the range of hpe; proper to be hoped for.
Sperable (n.) See Sperable.
Sperage (n.) Asperagus.
Sperate (a.) Hoped for, or to be hoped for.
Spere (v. i.) To search; to pry; to ask; to inquire.
Spere (n.) A sphere.
Sperge (n.) A charge of wash for the still.
Sperling (n.) A smelt; a sparling.
Sperling (n.) A young herring.
Sperm (n.) The male fecundating fluid; semen. See Semen.
Sperm (n.) Spermaceti.
Spermaceti (n.) A white waxy substance obtained from cavities in the head of the sperm whale, and used making candles, oilments, cosmetics, etc. It consists essentially of ethereal salts of palmitic acid with ethal and other hydrocarbon bases. The substance of spermaceti after the removal of certain impurities is sometimes called cetin.
Spermalist (n.) See Spermist.
Spermaphore (n.) That part of the ovary from which the ovules arise; the placenta.
Spermary (n.) An organ in which spermatozoa are developed; a sperm gland; a testicle.
Spermathecae (pl. ) of Spermatheca
Spermatheca (n.) A small sac connected with the female reproductive organs of insects and many other invertebrates, serving to receive and retain the spermatozoa.
Spermatic (a.) Of or pertaining to semen; as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc.
Spermatical (a.) Spermatic.
Spermatin (n.) A substance allied to alkali albumin and to mucin, present in semen, to which it is said to impart the mucilaginous character.
Spermatism (n.) The emission of sperm, or semen.
Spermatia (pl. ) of Spermatium
Spermatium (n.) One of the motionless spermatozoids in the conceptacles of certain fungi.
Spermatize (v. i.) To yield seed; to emit seed, or sperm.
Spermato- () Alt. of Spermo-
Spermo- () Combining forms from Gr. spe`rma, -atos, seed, sperm, semen (of plants or animals); as, spermatoblast, spermoblast.
Spermatoblast (n.) Same as Spermoblast.
Spermatocyte (n.) Same as Spermoblast.
Spermatogemma (n.) Same as Spermosphere.
Spermatogenesis (n.) The development of the spermatozoids.
Spermatogenetic (a.) Relating to, or connected with, spermatogenesis; as, spermatogenetic function.
Spermatogenous (a.) Sperm-producing.
Spermatogonium (n.) A primitive seminal cell, occuring in masses in the seminal tubules. It divides into a mass (spermosphere) of small cells (spermoblast), which in turn give rise to spermatozoids.
Spermatoid (a.) Spermlike; resembling sperm, or semen.
Spermatoa (pl. ) of Spermatoon
Spermatoon (n.) A spermoblast.
Spermatophore (n.) Same as Spermospore.
Spermatophore (n.) A capsule or pocket inclosing a number of spermatozoa. They are present in many annelids, brachiopods, mollusks, and crustaceans. In cephalopods the structure of the capsule is very complex.
Spermatophorous (a.) Producing seed, or sperm; seminiferous; as, the so-called spermatophorous cells.
Spermatorrhea (n.) Alt. of Spermatorrhoea
Spermatorrhoea (n.) Abnormally frequent involuntary emission of the semen without copulation.
Spermatospore (n.) Same as Spermospore.
Spermatozoid (n.) The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalcule-like particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozoon. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid.