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Spiderlike
a.
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Like a spider.
Spider web
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Alt. of Spider's web
Spider's web
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The silken web which is formed by most kinds of spiders, particularly the web spun to entrap their prey. See Geometric spider, Triangle spider, under Geometric, and Triangle.
Spiderwort
n.
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An American endogenous plant (Tradescantia Virginica), with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus.
Spied
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imp. & p. p. of Spy.
Spiegeleisen
n.
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See Spiegel iron.
Spiegel iron
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A fusible white cast iron containing a large amount of carbon (from three and a half to six per cent) and some manganese. When the manganese reaches twenty-five per cent and upwards it has a granular structure, and constitutes the alloy ferro manganese, largely used in the manufacture of Bessemer steel. Called also specular pig iron, spiegel, and spiegeleisen.
Spight
n. & v.
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Spite.
Spight
n.
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A woodpecker. See Speight.
Spignel
n.
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Same as Spickenel.
Spignet
n.
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An aromatic plant of America. See Spikenard.
Spigot
n.
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A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock.
Spigurnel
n.
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Formerly the title of the sealer of writs in chancery.
Spike
n.
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Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
Spike
n.
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An ear of corn or grain.
Spike
n.
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A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
Spiked
imp. & p. p.
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of Spike
Spiking
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Spike
Spike
v. t.
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To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.
Spike
v. t.
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To set or furnish with spikes.
Spike
v. t.
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To fix on a spike.
Spike
v. t.
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To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it.
Spike
n.
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Spike lavender. See Lavender.
Spikebill
n.
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The hooded merganser.
Spikebill
n.
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The marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa).
Spiked
a.
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Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes.
Spikefish
n.
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See Sailfish (a)
Spikelet
n.
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A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of Quaking grass.
Spikenard
n.
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An aromatic plant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for the hair is still prepared in India.
Spikenard
n.
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A fragrant essential oil, as that from the Nardostachys Jatamansi.