Thus is our mind with too much minding Sidney. Shak. Ben Jonson. 3. To throw away. The poifon spill. Tickell. (2.) To SPILL. v. n. 1. To wafte; to be lavish.-Thy father bids thee spare, and chides for Spilling. Sidney. 2. To be thed; to be loft by being thed. He was fo topful or himself, that he let it spil on all the company. Watts. * SPILLER. n. f. I know not whence derived. A kind of fishing line.-In harbour they are taken by pillers made of a cord.—This spiller they fink in the fea where those fishes have their accuftomed haunt. Care. SPILSBY, a town of England, in Lincolnshire, with a market on Mond. on the fide of a hill: 16 iniles N. cf Boston, 30 E. of Lincoln, and 132 N. by E. of London. Lon. o. 7 E. Lat. 53. 12. N. * SPILTI. n. f. [from spilt.] Any thing poured out or waited. Our vauits have wept with drunken pilth of wine. Shakesp. (1.) To SPIN. v. a. preter. Spun or span; part. fpun, pinnan, Sax. pinnen, Dutch.] 1. To draw out into threads. The women pun goats hair. Ex. xxxv. 26. 2. To form threads by drawing out and twitting any filamentous matter.You would be another Penelope; yet all the yarn the pun, in Ulyffes's abfence, did but fill Ithaca full of moths. Shak. The fates but only spin the courfer clue. Dryd. 3. To protract; to draw out.-By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives. E'Lftrange. 2. [Spingare, Italian.] To stream out in a thread or imali current. The blood out of their helmets ffan. Drayt. 3. To move round as a spindle. She from the Weft her filent courfe advanced Who ply the wimble fome huge beam to bore : (4.) SPINA LONGA, in geography, a town of the inland of Candia; with a citadel and harbour. (5.) SPINA VENTOSA, in furgery, that species of corruption of the bones which takes its rife in the internal parts, and by degrees enlarges the bone, and raifes it into a tumor. Set SURGERY, Index. (1.) SPINACH. SPINAGE. n..Spinachia, Lat.] A plant.-It hath an apetalous flower, confifting of many ftamina included in the flower-cup, which are produced in fpikes upon the male plants which are barren; but the embryoes are produ ced from the wings of the leaves on the female pants, which afterwards become roundish or angular feeds, which in fome forts, have thorns ad. hering to them. Miller.-Spinage is an excellent herb crude, or boiled. Mortimer. (2.) SPINACH. See SPINACIA. (3.) SPINACH, STRAWBERRY. See BLITUM. SPINACIA, SPINAGE, in botany, a genus of plants belonging to the clafs of diacia, and to the order of Pentandria; and in the natural fyftem arranged under the 12th order, Holorace. The male calyx is quinquepartite; there is no corolla: the female calyx is quadrifid; no corolla; there are four styles, and one feed within the indurated calyx. There are only two fpecies: 1. SPINACIA FERA, wild spinage, produces its fruit on footftalks. 2. SPINACIA OLERACEA, common spinage, has feffile fruits and fagitated leaves. It has been cultivated in Britain fince 1568, but it is not known from what country it was originally brought. When intended for winter ufe, it should be fown No, let us draw her term of freedom out on an open fpot of ground in the end of July; In its full length, and spin it to the laft. Cato. and if poffible when the weather is rainy. When 4. To form by degrees: to draw out tediously. the young plants are come up, the weeds must Witty men might pin out large volumes. Digby. -If his cure hes among the lawyers, let nothing be faid against intangling property, Spinning out caufes, and fqueezing clients. Collier-Men of quick apprehenfions are not to expect any thing here, but what, being pun out of my own coarfe thoughts, is fitted to men of my own fize. Locke. The lines are weak, another's pleas'd to fay; They neither know to pin, nor care to toil, be deftroyed, and the plants left at about 5 inches afunder. The ground being kept clear of weeds, the fpinage will be fit for ufe in October. The way of gathering it to advantage is only to take off the longeft leaves, leaving thofe in the centre to grow bigger; and at this rate a bed of fpinage will furnith the table for a whole winter, till the fpinage fown in ipring is become fit for uie, which is commonly in April. SPINE, in botany, thorus, rigid prickles: a species of arma, growing on various parts of certain plants for their defence; fpina ramorum arcent pecora. On the branches we find examples in the pyrus, prunus, citrus, hippophaes, gmelina, rhamnus, lycium, &c.; on the leaves in the aloe, agave, yucca, ex, hippomane, theophrafta, carIma, &c.; on the calyx, in the carduus, chicus, centauria centauria, moluccella, galeopfis, &c.; on the fruit, in the trapa, tribulus, murex, fpinacia, agremonia, datura, &c. SPINAGE. See SPINACH and SPINACIA. (1.) * SPINAL. adj. [spina, Lat.] Beionging to the back bone.-Ali Spinel, or fuch as have no ribs, but only a back bone, are somewhat analagous thereto. Brown.-Those folids are entirely nervous, and proceed from the brain, and spinal marrow. Arbuthnot. Defcending careless from his couch, the fall Lux'd his joint neck and spinal marrow bruis'd. Philips. See ANATOMY, Ind. (3.) SPINAL NERVES. SPINALIS, in anatomy, feveral muscles, &c. of the spine. See ANATOMY, 209. (2.) SPINAL MARROW. } SPINCKES, Nathanael, an eminent non-jurant divine, born in 1654, at Caftor in Northamptonshire, where his father Edmund, a native of New England, and a man of letters, was rector. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1669-70. In 1671, he fell heir by his father's death, to a large fortune and a fine library. After taking his degrees of B. and M. A. &c. he was admitted priest, Dec. 22d, 1678. He then became chaplain to Sir R. Edgcomb; and in 1681, the fame to the D. of Lauderdale. In 1685, he was made rector of Peakirk in Northamptonshire, where he married Mifs Rutland of London. In 1687 he was made a prebendary of Salisbury, rector of St Mary, and preacher at Stratford at L.80 a year. But in 1690, he loft all his preferments, by refusing to take the oaths to William and Mary. On the 3d June 1713, he was made a bishop. He died 28th July 1727. His publications were numerous. The most celebrated is his Sick Man Vifited. (1.)* SPINDLE. n.f. [ spindl, spindel, Saxon.] 1. The pin by which the thread is formed, and on which it is conglomerated.-Bodies fibrous by moisture incorporate with other thread, as appeareth by the twifting of thread, and twirling about of fpindles. Bacon. Milt. Sing to those that bold the vital sheers, And turn the adamantine spindle round. -Upon a true repentance, God is not fo fatally tied to the spindle of abfolute reprobation as not to keep his promife. Jafper Maine. So Palias from the dusky field withdrew, Refum'd her female arts, the spindle and the clew. Stepney. Do you take me for a Roman matron, Bred tamely to the spindle and the loom? A. Philips. 2. A long flender ftalk.-The Spindles mult be tied up, and, as they grow in height, rods fet by them. Mortimer. 3. Any thing flender. In contempt.-Repose yourself, if those spindle legs of yours will carry you to the next chair. Dryden.The marriage of one of our heireffes with an emnent courtier gave us fpindle fhanks and cramps. Tatler. (2.) SPINDLE, in geometry, a folid body generated by the revolution of fome curve line about its bafe or double ordinate; in oppofition to a conoid, which is generated by the rotation of the curve about its axis or abfcifs, perpendicular to its ordinate. The fpindle is denominated circu lar, eliptic, hyperbolic, or parabolic, &c. according to the figure of its generating curve. (3.) SPINDLE, in mechanics, fometimes denotes the axis of a wheel, or roller, &c. and its ends are the pivots. *To SPINDLE. v. n. [from the noun.] To fhoot into a long small stalk.-Another iil accident in drought is the spindling of the corn. Bac. -When the flowers begin to spindle, all but one or two of the biggeft, at each root, fhould be nipped off. Mortimer. SPINDLESHANKED. adj. [Spindle and Shank Having fmail legs.-Her lawyer is a little rivelled, Spindlefhanked gentleman. Addifon. (1.) SPINDLETREE. . f. [euonymus, Latin.] Prickwood. A piant. (2.) SPINDLE-TREE. See EUONYMUS. (1.) * SPINE. n.f. [fpina, Lat.] The back bone. -The rapier entered his right fide, reaching within a finger's breadth of the spine. Wifeman.The marrow of a man, Which in the spine, while he was living ran. (2.) SPINE. See ANATOMY, Index. (3.) SPINE, in botany. See SPINÆ. (1.) * SPINEL. n. f. A fort of mineral.-Spinel ruby is of a bright rofy red; it is fofter than the rock or balass ruby. Woodward. (2.) SPINEL, in mineralogy. See RUBY, 3. (3.) SPINEL, in the linen manufactory, 4 hanks. (1) SPINELLO, Aretino, a Tufcan painter, of great repute in his time. He was born in 1328, and ftudied under James di Cafentino, whom at 20 he excelled. He painted hiftory and portraits admirably, and finished the pieces exquifitely at laft. But he painted a picture of the fallen angels, in which he drew to horrid a picture of Lucifer, that it frightened him fo much as to affect his fenfes ever after. He died in 1420. (2.) SPINELLO, Paris, the fon and difciple of Aretino, was aifo an eminent painter. His ftyie greatly refembled that of his father, whom he did not long furvive, dying in 1422. Savift. SPINESCENT, adj. sharp and pricking. (1.) * SPINET. n. f. lefpinette, French.] A small harpsichord, and inftrument with keys.When mifs delights in her finnet, A fiddler may his fortune get. (2.) SPINET, or SPINNET, a musical inftrumant ranked in the fecond or third place among harmonious inftruments. It confifts of a cheft or belly made of the most porous and refinous wood to be found and a table of fir glued on flips of wood called jummers, which bear on the fides. On the table is raved two iittie prominences or bridges, wherein are placed fo many pins as there are chords or strings to the inftrument. It is played on by two ranges of continued keys, the former range being the order of the diatonic scale, and that behind the order of the artificial notes or femitones. The keys are fo many flat pieces of wood, which, touched and preffed down at the end, make the other raise a jack which frike and found the ftrings by means of the end of a crow's quil, wherewith it is armed. The 30 firft ftrings are of brafs, the other more delicate ones of ftect or iron wire; they are all Aretched over the two bridges bridges already mentioned. The figure of the ipinet is a long fquare or parallelogram; fome call it an harp couched, and the harp an inverted fpinet. See HARP. This inftrument is generally tuned by the ear, which method of the practicai muficians is founded on a fuppofition that the ear is a perfect judge of an octave and a fifth. The general rule is to begin at a certain note, as C, taken towards the middle of the inftrument, and tuning all the octaves up and down, and alfo the fifths, reckoning feven femitones to each fifth, by which means the whole is tuned. Sometimes to the common or fundamental play of the ipinet is added another fimilar one in unifon, and a third in octave to the fift, to make the harmony the fuller; they are either played separately or toge. ther by means of a ftop: these are called double or triple fpinets; fometimes a play of violins is added, by means of a bow, or a few wheels parallel to the keys, which prefs the ftrings and make the found laft as long as the mufician pleates, and heighten and foften them more or lefs, as they are more or lefs preffed. The harpfichord is a kind of spinet, only with another disposition of the keys. (See HARPSICHORD). The inftrument takes its name from the fmall quil ends which touch the ftrings, refembling spine or thorns. SPINIAGOR, a town of Ruffia, in Viatka: 40 miles SW. of Elabura. * SPINIFEROUS. adj. [spina and fero, Lat.] Bearing thorns. SPINIFEX, in botany; a genus of plants belonging to the clafs of polygamia, and order of monecia. The hermaphrodite flowers have a calyx with bivalved biflorous glumes, the valvelets being parallel to the rachis; the corolla is bivalved and awnlefs; there are three ftamina and two styles. In the male flowers the calyx is common with the hermaphrodite; the corolla and ftamina are fimilar. There is only one fpecies; viz. SPINIFEX SQUARROSUS. (1.)* SPINK. n. f. A finch; a bird.— The pink chaunts fweeteft in a hedge of thorns. Harte. (2.) SPINK, or FINCH. See FRINGILLA, N° 2, 5, and 11 and LOXIA, N° 5, 6, and 14. * SPINNER. n. [from pin.] 1. One skilled in fpinning. A practifed spinner fhall fpin a pound of wool worth two fhillings for fixpence. Graunt. 2. A garden fpider with long jointed legs. vals in trade, have occafioned many attempts at home to render spinning more eafy, cheap, and expeditious: For which fee COTTON, I, vii, 1. Thele contrivances have in fome parts of Scotland been applied to the fooning of flax; but a very confiderable improvement has lately been made by Mr Antis of Fulueck near Leeds of the common fpinning wheel. It is weil known, that hitherto much time has been loft by stopping the wheel in order to shift the thread from one staple on the flyer to another; but in Mr Antis's wheel the bobbin is made to move backwards and forwards, fo as to prevent the neceflity of this perpetual interruption, as well as to obviate the danger of breaking the thread and lofing the end. This is done by the axis of the great wheel being extended through the pillar next the fpinner, and formed into a pinion of one leaf A, Pl. 317. which takes into a wheel B, feven inches diameter, having on its periphery 97 teeth; fo that 97 revolutions of the great wheel caufe one of the letter wheel. On this leffer wheel is fixed a ring of wire cece; which, being fupported on fix legs, ftands ‘obiiquely to the wheel itself, touching it at one part, and projecting nearly of an inch at the op pofite onc: near the fide of this wheel is an upright lever C, about 15 inches long, moving on a centre, 3 inches from its lower extremity, and connected at the top to a sliding bar D; from which rifes an upright piece of brafs E, which working in the notch of a pulley drives the bobbin F backward and forward, according as an oblique wire forces a pin G in or out, as the wheel moves round. To regulate and affift the alternate motion, a weight H hangs by a line to the fliding bar, and paffing over a puliey I rifes and falls as the bobbin advances or recedes, and tends conftantly to keep the pin in contact with the wire. It is evident, from this description that one staple only is wanted to the flyer; which, being placed near the extremity K, the thread paffing through it is by the motion of the bobbin laid regularly thereon. For this invention the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. gave the author a premium of 20 guineas. (2.) SPINNING MACHINE. The ancient Greeks entertained fo high an opinion of the utility and benefits of SPINNING and making cloth, that they afcribed the invention to MINERVA, the goddess of wifdom. But we, who profefs to be ChrifHence you long legg'd spinners, hence. Shak. tiaus, ought to trace the origin of the arts, to per(1.) SPINNING, [from spin.\ part. n. f. in com- fons who really exifted, and not to the imaginary Serce, the act or art of reducing filk, flax, hemp, gods and goddeffes of the Greeks. Mofes, while wool, hair, or other matters, into thread. Spin- he informs us, that Music and METALLURGY bing is either performed on the wheel or with a were invented by the defcendants of Cain before diftaff and spindle, or with other machines proper the flood, mentions alfo that JABAL was the fafor the feveral kinds of working. Hemp, flax, ther, or inftructor of fuch as dwell in tents. Hence nettle-thread, and other like vegetable matters, it is evident that SPINNING, WEAVING, and CLOTHare to be wetted in fpinning: filks, wools, &c. MAKING, must have been invented about or beare fpun dry, and do not need water: yet there fore the fame period, and probably by the fame s a way of fpinning or reeling filk as it comes off perfon. But, to defcend to our own times, we the cafes or balis, where hot and even boiling wa- do not know, except perhaps the STEAM ENGINE, ter is to be used. (fee SILK). The vast variety, any mechanical invention that has made fuch a and the importance of thofe branches of our ina mazing addition to the activity, induftry and opu ufactures, which are produced from cotton, lence of this ifland as the invention of Sir Richard wool, and flax fpun into yarn, together with the Arkwright for fpinning by water, where dead cheapnefs of provifions, and the low price of la- matter is made to perform all that the niceft finbour in many foreign countries, which are our ri-gers can do when directed by the never ceafing at tention |