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(1.) To SPIT. v. a. Preterite pat; participle paff. fpit, or spitted. [from the noun.] 1. To put upon a spit.—

I fee my coufin's ghost

Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body. Shak, 2. To thurst through.

I Spitted frogs.

Dryden. (2.) * To SPIT. v. a. [spætan, Six. Spytter, Dan.] To eject from the mouth.

A large mouth, indeed,

That pits forth death, and mountains.
Tongues /pit their duties out.

Shak.
Shak.

And all her backe in briftles fet, fpits every way her fome. Chapman. (3.) To SPIT. v. n. To throw out fpittle or moisture of the mouth.--Very good orators, when they are here, will fpit. Shak.

I dare meet Surrey,

And pit upon him whilft I fay he lies. Shak. The watʼry kingdom, whose ambitious head Spits in the face of heaven. Shak. -He spat on the ground. John, ix. 6.—A maid came to one of the tribunals of the Gentiles, and declaring herself a Chriftian, pit in the judge's face. South-A drunkard men abhor, and would even spit at him, were it not for fear he should do fomething more than spit at them. South.-Spit on your finger and thumb, and pinch the inuff till the candle goes out. Savift.

(r.) SPITAL, a town of Spain, in Catalonia, on the Mediterranean; 22 miles NE. of Tortofa.

(2-4.) SPITAL, three towns of Germany: viz. 1. in the empire of Austria ; 6 miles S. of Steyr: 2. in Stiria, 5 miles E. of Muertzenfchlag: 3. in Carinthia, on the Lifer, near the Drave; 8 miles E. of Saxonburg, 14 NW. of Villach, and 30 W. of Clagenfurt. Lon. 13. 37. E. Lat. 46. 53. N. SPIT-BOX, n. [fpit and box.] a box, generally of tin or wood, for spitting in.

*To SPITCHCOCK. v. a. To cut an eel in pieces and roaft him. Of this word I find no good etymology.

No man lards falt pork with orange peel,
Or garnithes his lamb with pitchcockt eel. King.
SPITE. n. f. [fpijt, Dutch; defpit, French]
1. Malice; rancour; hate; malignity; malevolence.
-This breeding rather fpite than fhame in her, the
did thirst for a revenge. Sidney.-

Bewray they did their inward boiling spite.
Daniel.
Their Spite ftill ferves

His glory to augment.
Milton.
Begone, ye criticks, and restrain your spite.

Pope.

Rowe.

In fpite of all the fortitude that shines
Before my face in Cato's great example. Addis.
-In spite of all applications, the patient grew
worfe. Arbuthnot.

To SPITE. v. a. (from the noun.] 1: To mischief; to treat maliciously; to vex; to thwart malignantly.

Beguil'd, divorced, wronged, pighted, flain, Moft deteftable death, by thee.

Shak.

I'll facrifice the lamb that I do love, To fpight a raven's heart within a dove. Shak. 2. To fill with ipite; to offend.-Zelmane, more Spited with that courtesy, burned away with choler. Sidney.-Darius, fpited at the magi, endea voured to abolish not only their learning but their language. Temple.

SPITEFUL. adj. [spite and full.]' Malicious; malignant.-The Jews were the deadliest and Spitefulleft enemies of Chriftianity that were in the world. Hooker.

A wayward fon,
Spightful and wrathful.

Shak. Macbeth? Our public form of divine fervice is in every part religious and holy, maugre the malice of spiteful wretches. White.-A spiteful endeavour to engage the reft of the world in the same flight efteem of him. South.

The spiteful stars have fhed their venom down.
Dryden.
SPITEFULLY. adv. [from spiteful.] Malici
oufly; malignantly.-

Falfe Evadne, spitefully forfworn! Waller.
At laft the spitefully was bent.
To try their witdom's full extent.

Savift

* SPITEFULNESS. n. f. [from spiteful.] Malice; malignity; defire of vexing.-It looks more like spitefulness and ill-nature, than a diligent fearch after truth. Keil.

SPIT-FIRE, n. f. [spit and fire.] An epithet given to a paffionate railer, who uses bitter expreffions. SPITHEAD, a road between Portsmouth and the Ifle of Wight, where the royal navy of Great Britain frequently rendezvous.

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SPITTAL. . f. [Corrupted from hofpital. A charitable foundation. In ufe only in the phrafes,: a spittal fermon, and rob not the spittal.

*SPITTED. adj. [from spit.] Shot out into length.-Whether the head of a deer, that by age is more spitted, may be brought again to be more branched. Bacon.

* SPITTER. n. f. [from spit.] 1. One who puts meat on a spit. 2. One who pits with his mouth. 3. A young deer, Ainsworth.

(1.)* SPITTLE. n.. [Corrupted from hospital, and therefore better written spital, or spittal.) Hofpital. It is ftill retained in Scotland.

To the spittle go. Shak. Henry V. She whom the spittle house, and ulcerous fores, Would caft the gorge at, this embalms and fpices

To th' April-day again.

Shak. Timon.

Clear.

Cure the spittle world of maladies. (2.) SPITTLE. n. f. [spætlian, Sax.] Moisture of the mouth.-The faliva or spittle is an humour of eminent ufe. Ray.

Churu'd like spittle from the lips they flew.
Dryden.
The spittle is an active liquor, immediately de-
rived from the arterial blood. Arbuthnot.-

His heart too great, though fortune little,
Savift.
To lick a rafcal statesman's spittle.
(3.) SPITTLE, in phyfiology. See SALIVA.
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* SPITTENOM. n. f. [spit and venom.] Poison ejeaed from the mouth.-The spitvenom of their poilored hearts breaketh out. Hooker.

(1.) SPITZ, a town of Bohemia, in Leitmeritz:

9 miles NE of Kamnitz.

* SPLASHY. adj. [from fplajh.] Full of dirty water; apt to daub.

To SPLAY. v. a. To diflocate or break a horfe's fhoulder-bone.

* SPLAYFOOT. adj. [fplay or display, and (2.) SPITZ, a town in the empire of Auftria, on foot.] Having the foot turned inward.the Danube, 10 miles above Krems.

SPITZBERG, a mountain of Silefia. SPITZBERGEN, the most northern country of Europe, fituated N. of Norway, between Weft Greenland on the W. and Nova Zembla: whence it is properly called EAST GREENLAND. It confifts of feveral iflands, and is supposed to be habitable, though hitherto only inhabited by bears and foxes. (See GREENLAND, N° 1, i.) Lon. 6° to 16° E. Lat. 76° 30 to 79° 49′ N. SPITZEBACH, a river of Auftrian Suabia, which runs into the Eltzach; near Upper Winden. SPIXWORTH, a town of England, near Nor

wich.

SPLACHNUM, in botany, a genus of plants belonging to the class of cryptogamia, and order of mufci. The antheræ are cylindrical, and grow on a large coloured apophysis or umbraculum. The calyptra is caducous. The female ftar grows on a separate stem. There are fix species; viz. I. SPLACHNUM AMPULLACEUM; 2. ANGUSTATUM; 3. LUTEUM; 4. RUBRUM; 5. SPHÆRICUM; and, 6. VASCULOSUM. Two of thefe are natives of Britain; viz.

Though ftill fome traces of our ruftic vein,
And playfoot verse remain’d.
Pope.
*SPLAYMOUTH. n. f. play and mouth.)
Mouth widened by defign.-

Hadit thou but Janus-like a face behind,
To fee the people when splaymouths they make.
Dryden.

(1.) SPLEEN. n. f. [fplen, Latin.] . The milt; one of the vifcera, of which the ufe is fcarcely known. It is fuppofed the feat of anger, melancholy, and mirth-If the wound be on the left hypochondrium, under the thort ribs, you may conclude the spleen wounded. Wiseman. 2. Anger; fpite; ili-humour.

3.

His folemne queen, whose spleene be was difpos'd

To tempt yet further.

If the muft teem,
Create her child of spleen.
Kind pity checks my pleen.
They vent their spleen aloud:
Lay down thofe honour'd spois.
In noble minds fome dregs remain,
Not yet purg'd off, of spleen.

A fit of anger.—

Chapman.

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Shak.

Donne

Dryden.

Pope.

Shak.

Charge not in your fpleen a noble perfon.

1. SPLACHNUM AMPULLACEUM, the crewet Splachnum, is found in bogs and marshes, and ofn upon cow-dung. It grows in thick tufts, and is about two inches high. The leaves are oval 4. A fudden motion; a fit.lanceolate, terminated with a long point or beard. The top of the filament or peduncle fwells into the form of an inverted cone, which Linnæus terms an apophys or umbraculum; upon the top of which is placed a cylindrical anthera, like the neck of a crewet. The calyptra is conical, and resembles a fmall extinguisher.

Brief as the light'ning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heav'n and earth. Shak.

5.

Melancholy; hypochondriacal vapours.—
The Spleen with fulien vapours clouds the
brain,

And binds the fpirits in its heavy chain.

Blackmore.

(2.) SPLEEN, in anatomy. See ANATOMY. * SPLEENED. adj. [from spleen.] Deprived of the spleen.-Animals Spleened grow falacious. Arbuthnot.

2. SPLACHNUM VASCULOSUM, the acorn-fhaped plachmum, is found upon bogs and cow-dung, and upon the points of rocks on the top of the Highland mountains, as on Ben-Lomond, and in the Ifle of Sky, and elsewhere. This differs little from the preceding, and perhaps is no more than 6. a variety. The filaments are about an inch ́high. The leaves oval-acute, not so lanceolate and bearded as the other. The apophysis, and the anthera at the top of it, form together nearly an oval figure, not unlike an acorn in its cup, the apophyfis being transversely semi-oval, and of a blood-red colour, the anthera fhort and conical. The calyptra is the fame as that of the other. The opercalum is fhort and obtufe, and the rim of the authera has 8 large horizontal cilia. The anthera of the other is alfo ciliated, but not fo diftinctly. It is an elegant mofs, and very distinguishable on account of its orange-coloured filaments and dark. red capfules.

(1.) SPLANCHNOLOGY. n. S. [Splanchnologie, French; yxy and day] A treatife or defcription of the bowels. Dia.

(2.) SPLANCHNOLOGY. See ANATOMY, Index. * To SPLASH. v. a. [plaska, Swedish. They have both an affinity with plash.] To daub with dirt in great quantities.

* SPLEENFUL. adj. \ Spleen and full.] Angry; peevish; fretful; melancholy.

Myself have calm'd their spleerful mutiny,

Shak. The chearful foldiers, with new ftores fupply'd,

Now long to execute their spleenful will.

Dryden. -The whistling of the wind is better mufick to contented minds than the opera to the spleenful. Pope.

*SPLEENLESS. adj. [from spleen.] Kind; gentle; mild. Obfolete.

A fpleenlefs wind to stretcht
Her wings to waft us.

(1.) * SPLEENWORT. n. f. [spleen and avort;

Chapman.

afplenion,

SPL

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a plenion, Lat.] Milt-wafte. A plant.-The leaves and fruit are like thofe of the fern; but the pinnulæ are eared at their bafis. Miller.

A branch of healing Spleenwart in his hand. Pope. (2.) SPLEENWORT, in botany, is a species of ASPLENIUM. As that article was accidentally omitted in its order, it is neceffary to give an account of it here. Afplenium is a genus of the Cryptogamia clafs of plants, and ranked in the order of Filices. The parts of fructification are fituated in the small sparse line under the disk of the leaves. There are 24 fpecies: two are na tives of Britain, and grow upon old walls and moift rocks: viz. 1. Afplenium ceteracum, Ceterach, or Spleenwort: 2. Afplenium Scolopendrium, or Hart's Tongue. Spleenwort has an herbaceous, mucilaginous, and roughish tafte; it is recoin. mended as a pectoral, and as a nephritic for promoting urine. It was ancient y esteemed good against the spleen.

(3.) SPLEENWORT, ROUGH; a species of POLY.

PODIUM.

* SPLEENY. adj. [from spleen.] Angry; peevish; humorous.—

Our canfe.

A spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Shak. SPLENDENT. adj. [ splendens, Lat.] Shining; gloffy; having luftre. They affigned them names from fome remarkable qualities, that is very obfervable in their red and splendent planets. Brown. Metallick fubftances may, by reafon of their great density, reflect all the light incident upon them, and fo be as opake and splendent as it is poffible for any body to be. Newton.

SPLENDID. adj. splendide, Fr. splendidus, Latin.] Showy; magnificent; fumptuous; pompous.

Unacceptable, though in heav'n, our ftate
Milton.
Of splendid vaffalage.
Fait by his fide Piliftratus lay fpread,
In age his equal, on a splendid bed.

Pope. SPLENDIDLY. adv. [from splendid.] Magnificently; fumptuoufly; pompouly. -Their condition, though it look splendidly, yet when you handie it on all fides, it will prick your fingers. Taylor. You will not admit you live splendidly,

More.

How largely gives, how splendidly he treats.
Dryden.
He, of the royal ftore

Splendidly frugal.

Philips. SPLENDOUR. n. J. [fplendeur, French; Splendor, Latin.] 1. Lüftre; power of lining.Splendour hath a degree of whitenefs. Bacon. The dignity of goid above filver is not much; the Splendour is alike. Bacon.-The firft fymptoms are a chilnefs, a certain lendour or thining in the 2. Magnificence; pomp.-Roeyes. Arbuthnot. mulus found no better way to procure an efteem and reverence to them, than by first procuring it to himself by fplendour of habit and retinue. South.

Splendour borrows all her rays from sense. Pope. (1.) SPLENETICK. adj. plenetique, Fr.] Troubled with the fpleen; fretful; peevish.Horace purged himself from these splenetick reflec

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tions in odes and epodes. Dryden.-This daugh-
ter filently lowers, t'other fteals a kind look at
you, a third is exactly well behaved, and a fourth
Splenetick. Tatler.-

You humour me when I am fick;
Why not when I am Splenetick?

Pope.

(2) * SPLENETICK, n. / a perfon afflicted with an obftruction of the spleen.

SPLENICK. adj. plenique, French; plen, Latin.] Belonging to the fpleen.-Suppole the fpleen obftructed in its lower parts and plenick branch. Harvey.-The splenick vein hath divers cells opening into it near its extremities in human bodies; but in quadrupeds the cells open into the trunks of the fplenick veins. Ray. * SPLENISH. adj. [from Spleen.] Fretful; peevish.

Yourselves you muft engage,
Somewhat to cool your spleenish rage. Drayton.
SPLENITIS. See MEDICINE, Index.
* SPLENITIVE. adj. [from spleen.) Hot; fie-
ry; paffionate. Not in ufe.-

Though I am not splenitive and rash,
Yet I have in me fomething dangerous. Shak.
SPLENIUS. See ANATOMY, 209.

(1.) * SPLENT. n.. [Or perhaps plint; fpinella, Italian.-Splent is a callous hard fubftance, or an infenfibie fwelling, which breeds on or adheres to the thank-bone of a horfe; and when it grows big, fpoils the fhape of the leg. When there is but one, it is called a fingle fplent; but when there is another oppofite to it on the outfide of the fhank-bone, it is called a pegged or pinned fplent. Farrier's Di&.

(2.) SPLENT. See FARRIERY, Part IV. Sea. VIII.

* To SPLICE. v. a. [splissen, Dutch; plico, Lat.] To join the two ends of a rope without a knot.

SPLICING, part. n. /. in the fea language, is the untwisting the ends of two cables or ropes, and working the several strands into one another by a fidd, fo that they become as strong as if they were but one rope..

(1.) * SPLINT. n. f. [fplinter, Dutch.] 1. A fragment of wood in general. 2. A thin piece of wood or other matter ufed by chirurgeons to hoid the bone newly fet in its place.-The ancients, after the feventh day, used splints, which not only kept the members steady, but ftraight. Wife

man.

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(2.) SPLINT. See SPLENT. v. a. [from the noun.] (1.) To SPLINT. (1.) * To SPLINTER. 1. To fecure by splints. This broken joint intreat her to splinter. Shak. 2. To fhiver; to break into fragments.

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(2.) To SPLINTER. v. n. [from the noun.] To be broken into fragments; to be shivered. SPLINTER. n. f. \plinter, Dutch.] 1. A fragment of any thing broken with violence.-He was flain at tilt, one of the splinters of MontgoDryden. mery's ftaff going in at his bever. Bacon.Some by aromatick splinters die. 2. A thin piece of wood.-A plain Indian fan, bound together with a splinter hoop. Grew.

(1.) To SPLIT. v. a. pret. and part. paff. split. [spletten, splitten, Dutch.] 1. To cleave; to rive; to divide longitudinally in two.

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