Sport (v. i.) To trifle.
Sport (v. i.) To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6.
Sport (v. t.) To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun.
Sport (v. t.) To represent by any knd of play.
Sport (v. t.) To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage.
Sport (v. t.) To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams.
Sportability (n.) Sportiveness.
Sportal (a.) Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports.
Sporter (n.) One who sports; a sportsman.
Sportful (a.) Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion.
Sportful (a.) Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive.
Sporting (a.) Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports.
Sportingly (adv.) In sport; sportively.
Sportive (a.) Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry.
Sportless (a.) Without sport or mirth; joyless.
Sportling (n.) A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play.
Sportsmen (pl. ) of Sportsman
Sportsman (n.) One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc.
Sportsmanship (n.) The practice of sportsmen; skill in field sports.
Sportulae (pl. ) of Sportula
Sportula (n.) A gift; a present; a prize; hence, an alms; a largess.
Sportulary (a.) Subsisting on alms or charitable contributions.
Sportule (n.) A charitable gift or contribution; a gift; an alms; a dole; a largess; a sportula.
Sporulation (n.) The act or process of forming spores; spore formation. See Illust. of Bacillus, b.
Sporule (n.) A small spore; a spore.
Sporuliferous (a.) Producing sporules.
Spot (n.) A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
Spot (n.) A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
Spot (n.) A small part of a different color from the main part, or from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card.
Spot (n.) A small extent of space; a place; any particular place.
Spot (n.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.
Spot (n.) A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife.
Spot (n.) The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See Redfish.
Spot (n.) Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
Spotted (imp. & p. p.) of Spot
Spotting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spot
Spot (v. t.) To make visible marks upon with some foreign matter; to discolor in or with spots; to stain; to cover with spots or figures; as, to spot a garnment; to spot paper.
Spot (v. t.) To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal.
Spot (v. t.) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse.
Spot (v. i.) To become stained with spots.
Spotless (a.) Without a spot; especially, free from reproach or impurity; pure; untainted; innocent; as, a spotless mind; spotless behavior.
Spotted (a.) Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character.
Spottedness (n.) State or quality of being spotted.
Spotter (n.) One who spots.
Spottiness (n.) The state or quality of being spotty.
Spotty (a.) Full of spots; marked with spots.
Spousage (v. t.) Espousal.
Spousal (a.) Of or pertaining to a spouse or marriage; nuptial; matrimonial; conjugal; bridal; as, spousal rites; spousal ornaments.
Spousal (n.) Marriage; nuptials; espousal; -- generally used in the plural; as, the spousals of Hippolita.
Spouse (n.) A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife.
Spouse (n.) A married man, in distinct from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband.
Spouse (n.) To wed; to espouse.
Spouse-breach (n.) Adultery.
Spouseless (a.) Destitute of a spouse; unmarried.
Spousess (n.) A wife or bride.
Spouted (imp. & p. p.) of Spout
Spouting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spout
Spout (v. t.) To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.
Spout (v. t.) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
Spout (v. t.) To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch.
Spout (v. i.) To issue with with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery.
Spout (v. i.) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
Spout (v. i.) To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
Spout (v. t.) That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building.
Spout (v. t.) A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.
Spout (v. t.) A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.
Spouter (n.) One who, or that which, spouts.
Spoutfish (n.) A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (Mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes.
Spoutless (a.) Having no spout.
Spoutshell (n.) Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.
Sprack (a.) Quick; lively; alert.
Sprad () p. p. of Spread.
Spradde () imp. of Spread.
Sprag (n.) A young salmon.
Sprag (n.) A billet of wood; a piece of timber used as a prop.
Spragged (imp. & p. p.) of Sprag
Spragging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprag
Sprag (v. t.) To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep grade, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel.
Sprag (v. t.) To prop or sustain with a sprag.
Sprag (a.) See Sprack, a.
Sprained (imp. & p. p.) of Sprain
Spraining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprain
Sprain (v. t.) To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation; as, to sprain one's ankle.
Sprain (n.) The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining; as, a bad sprain of the wrist.
Spraints (v. t.) The dung of an otter.
Sprang () imp. of Spring.
Sprat (n.) A small European herring (Clupea sprattus) closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard; -- called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds.
Sprat (n.) A California surf-fish (Rhacochilus toxotes); -- called also alfione, and perch.
Sprawled (imp. & p. p.) of Sprawl
Sprawling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprawl
Sprawl (v. i.) To spread and stretch the body or limbs carelessly in a horizontal position; to lie with the limbs stretched out ungracefully.
Sprawl (v. i.) To spread irregularly, as vines, plants, or tress; to spread ungracefully, as chirography.
Sprawl (v. i.) To move, when lying down, with awkward extension and motions of the limbs; to scramble in creeping.
Srawls (n. pl.) Small branches of a tree; twigs; sprays.
Spray (n.) A small shoot or branch; a twig.
Spray (n.) A collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a beautiful spray.
Spray (n.) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold.
Spray (n.) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
Spray (v. t.) Water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like.
Spray (v. t.) A jet of fine medicated vapor, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer.