Spongy (a.) Having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge.
Sponk (n.) See Spunk.
Sponsal (a.) Relating to marriage, or to a spouse; spousal.
Sponsible (a.) responsible; worthy of credit.
Sponsion (n.) The act of becoming surety for another.
Sponsion (n.) An act or engagement on behalf of a state, by an agent not specially authorized for the purpose, or by one who exceeds the limits of authority.
Sponsional (a.) Of or pertaining to a pledge or agreement; responsible.
Sponson (n.) One of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat.
Sponson (n.) One of the slanting supports under the guards of a steamboat.
Sponson (n.) One of the armored projections fitted with gun ports, used on modern war vessels.
Sponsor (n.) One who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety.
Sponsor (n.) One who at the baptism of an infant professore the christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education; a godfather or godmother.
Spnsorial (a.) Pertaining to a sponsor.
Sponsorship (n.) State of being a sponsor.
Spontaneities (pl. ) of Spontaneity
Spontaneity (n.) The quality or state of being spontaneous, or acting from native feeling, proneness, or temperament, without constraint or external force.
Spontaneity (n.) The tendency to undergo change, characteristic of both animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or cheked by the environment.
Spontaneity (n.) The tendency to activity of muscular tissue, including the voluntary muscles, when in a state of healthful vigor and refreshment.
Spontaneous (a.) Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion.
Spontaneous (a.) Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or natural law, without external force; as, spontaneous motion; spontaneous growth.
Spontaneous (a.) Produced without being planted, or without human labor; as, a spontaneous growth of wood.
Spontoon (n.) A kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers.
Spook (n.) A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin.
Spook (n.) The chimaera.
Spool (n.) A piece of cane or red with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon.
Spooled (imp. & p. p.) of Spool
Spooling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spool
Spool (v. t.) To wind on a spool or spools.
Spooler (n.) One who, or that which, spools.
Spoom (v. i.) To be driven steadily and swiftly, as before a strong wind; to be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a part of the sails spread; to scud under bare poles.
Spoon (v. i.) See Spoom.
Spoon (n.) An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.
Spoon (n.) Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.
Spoon (n.) Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney.
Spoon (v. t.) To take up in, or as in, a spoon.
Spoon (v. i.) To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love.
Spoonbill (n.) 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.
Spoonbill (n.) The shoveler. See Shoveler, 2.
Spoonbill (n.) The ruddy duck. See under Ruddy.
Spoonbill (n.) The paddlefish.
Spoon-billed (a.) Having the bill expanded and spatulate at the end.
Spoondrift (n.) Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift.
Spooney (a.) Weak-minded; demonstratively fond; as, spooney lovers.
Spooneye (pl. ) of Spooney
Spooney (n.) A weak-minded or silly person; one who is foolishly fond.
Spoonfuls (pl. ) of Spoonful
Spoonful (n.) The quantity which a spoon contains, or is able to contain; as, a teaspoonful; a tablespoonful.
Spoonful (n.) Hence, a small quantity.
Spoonily (adv.) In a spoony manner.
Spoon-meat (n.) Food that is, or must be, taken with a spoon; liquid food.
Spoonwood (n.) The mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia).
Spoonworm (n.) A gephyrean worm of the genus Thalassema, having a spoonlike probiscis.
Spoonwort (n.) Scurvy grass.
Spoony (a. & n.) Same as Spooney.
Spoor (n.) The track or trail of any wild animal; as, the spoor of an elephant; -- used originally by travelers in South Africa.
Spoor (v. i.) To follow a spoor or trail.
Sporades (n. pl.) Stars not included in any constellation; -- called also informed, or unformed, stars.
Sporadial (a.) Sporadic.
Sporadic (a.) Occuring singly, or apart from other things of the same kind, or in scattered instances; separate; single; as, a sporadic fireball; a sporadic case of disease; a sporadic example of a flower.
Sporadical (a.) Sporadic.
Sporadically (adv.) In a sporadic manner.
Sporangiophore (n.) The axis or receptacle in certain ferns (as Trichomanes), which bears the sporangia.
Sporangia (pl. ) of Sporangium
Sporangium (n.) A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.
Spore (n.) One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species.
Spore (n.) An embryo sac or embryonal vesicle in the ovules of flowering plants.
Spore (n.) A minute grain or germ; a small, round or ovoid body, formed in certain organisms, and by germination giving rise to a new organism; as, the reproductive spores of bacteria, etc.
Spore (n.) One of the parts formed by fission in certain Protozoa. See Spore formation, belw.
Sporid (n.) A sporidium.
Sporidiferous (a.) Bearing sporidia.
Sporidia (pl. ) of Sporidium
Sporidium (n.) A secondary spore, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi.
Sporidium (n.) A spore.
Sporiferous (a.) Bearing or producing spores.
Sporification (n.) Spore formation. See Spore formation (b), under Spore.
Sporocarp (n.) A closed body or conceptacle containing one or more masses of spores or sporangia.
Sporocarp (n.) A sporangium.
Sporocyst (n.) An asexual zooid, usually forming one of a series of larval forms in the agamic reproduction of various trematodes and other parasitic worms. The sporocyst generally develops from an egg, but in its turn produces other larvae by internal budding, or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of minute germs. See Redia.
Sporocyst (n.) Any protozoan when it becomes encysted produces germs by sporulation.
Sporogenesis (n.) reproduction by spores.
Sporogony (n.) The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.
Sporophore (n.) A placenta.
Sporophore (n.) That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore.
Sporophoric (a.) Having the nature of a sporophore.
Sporosac (n.) A hydrozoan reproductive zooid or gonophore which does not become medusoid in form or structure. See Illust. under Athecata.
Sporosac (n.) An early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia.
Sporozoa (n. pl.) An extensive division of parasitic Protozoa, which increase by sporulation. It includes the Gregarinida.
Sporozoid (n.) Same as Zoospore.
Sporran (n.) A large purse or pouch made of skin with the hair or fur on, worn in front of the kilt by Highlanders when in full dress.
Sport (n.) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
Sport (n.) Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
Sport (n.) That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
Sport (n.) Play; idle jingle.
Sport (n.) Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
Sport (n.) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. See Sporting plant, under Sporting.
Sport (n.) A sportsman; a gambler.
Sported (imp. & p. p.) of Sport
Sporting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sport
Sport (v. i.) To play; to frolic; to wanton.
Sport (v. i.) To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.