Spirtle transitive verb To spirt in a scattering manner.

Spirula noun [ New Latin , dim. of Latin spira a coil.] (Zoology) A genus of cephalopods having a multilocular, internal, siphunculated shell in the form of a flat spiral, the coils of which are not in contact.

Spirulate noun (Zoology) Having the color spots, or structural parts, arranged spirally.

Spiry adjective [ From Spire a winding line.] Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; serpentine.

Hid in the spiry volumes of the snake.

Dryden.

Spiry adjective [ FR. Spire a steeple.] Of or pertaining to a spire; like a spire, tall, slender, and tapering; abounding in spires; as, spiry turrets. " Spiry towns." Thomson.

Spiss adjective [ Latin spissus .] Thick; crowded; compact; dense. [ Obsolete]

This spiss and . . . copious, yet concise, treatise.

Brerewood.

Spissated adjective Rendered dense or compact, as by evaporation; inspissated; thickened. [ R.]

The spissated juice of the poppy.

Bp. Warburton.

Spissitude noun [ Latin spissitudo .] The quality or state of being spissated; as, the spissitude of coagulated blood, or of any coagulum. Arbuthnot.

Spit noun [ Middle English spite , Anglo-Saxon spitu ; akin to Dutch spit , German spiess , Old High German spiz , Danish spid . Swedish spett , and to German spitz pointed. √170.]
1. A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting.

2. A small point of land running into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand. Cook.

3. The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful. [ Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Spit transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Spitted ; present participle & verbal noun Spitting .] [ From Spit , noun ; confer Speet .]
1. To thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal. "Infants spitted upon pikes." Shak.

2. To spade; to dig. [ Prov. Eng.]

Spit intransitive verb To attend to a spit; to use a spit. [ Obsolete]

She's spitting in the kitchen.

Old Play.

Spit noun The secretion formed by the glands of the mouth; spitle; saliva; sputum.

Spit intransitive verb
1. To throw out saliva from the mouth.

2. To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles.

It had been spitting with rain.

Dickens.

To spit on or upon , to insult grossly; to treat with contempt. " Spitting upon all antiquity." South.

Spit ball (Baseball) A pitched ball in throwing which the pitcher grips the ball between two, or three, fingers on one side (which is made slippery, as by saliva) and the thumb on the other side, and delivers it so that it slips off the fingers with the least possible friction. When pitched directly overhand a spit ball darts downward, when pitched with the arm extended sidewise it darts down and out. [ Cant] -- Spit baller .

Spit curl A little lock of hair, plastered in a spiral form on the temple or forehead with spittle, or other adhesive substance. [ Colloq.]

Spit-venom noun Poison spittle; poison ejected from the mouth. [ R.] Hooker.

Spital noun [ Abbreviated from hospital .] [ Written also spittle .] A hospital. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Spitalhouse noun A hospital. [ Obsolete]

Spitball noun Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile.

Spitbox noun A vessel to receive spittle.

Spitchcock transitive verb [ 1st spit + cock .] (Cookery) To split (as an eel) lengthwise, and broil it, or fry it in hot fat.

Spitchcock noun (Cookery) An eel split and broiled.

Spitchcocked adjective (Cookery) Broiled or fried after being split lengthwise; -- said of eels.

Spite noun [ Abbreviated from despite .]
1. Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite. Pope.

This is the deadly spite that angers.

Shak.

2. Vexation; chargrin; mortification. [ R.] Shak.

In spite of , or Spite of , in opposition to all efforts of; in defiance or contempt of; notwithstanding. "Continuing, spite of pain, to use a knee after it had been slightly ibnjured." H. Spenser. "And saved me in spite of the world, the devil, and myself." South. " In spite of all applications, the patient grew worse every day." Arbuthnot. See Syn. under Notwithstanding . -- To owe one a spite , to entertain a mean hatred for him.

Syn. -- Pique, rancor; malevolence; grudge. -- Spite , Malice . Malice has more reference to the disposition, and spite to the manifestation of it in words and actions. It is, therefore, meaner than malice , thought not always more criminal. " Malice . . . is more frequently employed to express the dispositions of inferior minds to execute every purpose of mischief within the more limited circle of their abilities." Cogan. "Consider eke, that spite availeth naught." Wyatt. See Pique .

Spite transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Spited ; present participle & verbal noun Spiting .]
1. To be angry at; to hate. [ Obsolete]

The Danes, then . . . pagans, spited places of religion.

Fuller.

2. To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.

3. To fill with spite; to offend; to vex. [ R.]

Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavored to abolish not only their learning, but their language.

Sir. W. Temple.

Spiteful adjective Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious; as, a spiteful person or act. Shak. -- Spite"ful*ly , adverb Spite"ful*ness , noun

Spitfire noun A violent, irascible, or passionate person. [ Colloq.] Grose.

Spitful noun ; plural Spitfuls A spadeful. [ Prov. Eng.]

Spitous adjective Having spite; spiteful. [ Obsolete]

Spitously adverb Spitefully. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Spitscocked adjective Spitchcocked.

Spitted adjective [ From Spit .]
1. Put upon a spit; pierced as if by a spit.

2. Shot out long; -- said of antlers. Bacon.

Spitted past participle of Spit , intransitive verb , to eject, to spit. [ Obsolete]

Spitter noun [ See Spit to eject from the mouth.] One who ejects saliva from the mouth.

Spitter noun [ See Spit an iron prong.]
1. One who puts meat on a spit.

2. (Zoology) A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.

Spittle noun See Spital . [ Obsolete] B. Jonson.

Spittle transitive verb [ See Spit to spade.] To dig or stir with a small spade. [ Prov. Eng.]

Spittle noun A small sort of spade. [ Prov. Eng.]

Spittle noun [ From Spit to eject from the mouth: confer Spattle , and Anglo-Saxon spātl .] The thick, moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; spit.

Spittle insect . (Zoology) See Cuckoo spit (b) , under Cuckoo .

Spittly adjective Like spittle; slimy. [ Obsolete]

Spittoon noun A spitbox; a cuspidor.

Spitz dog [ German spitz , spitzhund .] (Zoology) A breed of dogs having erect ears and long silky hair, usually white; -- called also Pomeranian dog , and louploup .

Spitzenburgh noun A kind of red and yellow apple, of medium size and spicy flavor. It originated at Newtown, on Long Island.

Splanchnapophysis noun ; plural Splanchnapophyses . [ New Latin See Splanchnic , and Apophysis .] (Anat.) Any element of the skeleton in relation with the alimentary canal, as the jaws and hyoidean apparatus. -- Splanch`nap`o*phys"i*al adjective Mivart.

Splanchnic adjective [ Greek ......... an entrail.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the viscera; visceral.

Splanchno-skeleton noun [ Greek ............ an entrail + English skeleton .] (Anat.) That part of the skeleton connected with the sense organs and the viscera. Owen.

Splanchnography noun [ Greek ............... an entrail + -graphy .] Splanchnology.

Splanchnology noun [ Greek ............ an entrail + -logy .] That part of anatomy which treats of the viscera; also, a treatise on the viscera.

Splanchnopleure noun [ Greek ............ an entrail + ............ side.] (Anat.) The inner, or visceral, one of the two lamellæ into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See Somatopleure .

-- Splanch`no*pleu"ric adjective