Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 121
Space (n.) A quantity or portion of extension; distance from one thing to another; an interval between any two or more objects; as, the space between two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a mile.
Put a space betwixt drove and drove. -- Gen. xxxii. 16.
Space (n.) Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time. "Grace God gave him here, this land to keep long space." -- R. of brunne.
Nine times the space that measures day and night. -- Milton.
God may defer his judgments for a time, and give a people a longer space of repentance. -- Tillotson.
Space (n.) A short time; a while. [R.] "To stay your deadly strife a space." -- Spenser.
Space (n.) Walk; track; path; course. [Obs.]
This ilke [same] monk let old things pace, And held after the new world the space. -- Chaucer.
Space (n.) (Print.) A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, -- used to separate words or letters.
Space (n.) (Print.) The distance or interval between words or letters in the lines, or between lines, as in books , on a computer screen, etc.
Note: Spaces are of different thicknesses to enable the compositor to arrange the words at equal distances from each other in the same line.
Space (n.) (Mus.) One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff.
Space (n.) That portion of the universe outside the earth or its atmosphere; -- called also outer space.
Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc.
Deep space, The part of outer space which is beyond the limits of the solar system.
Space line (Print.), A thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance from each other, and for other purposes; a lead. -- Hansard.
Space rule (Print.), A fine, thin, short metal rule of the same height as the type, used in printing short lines in tabular matter.
Space (v. i.) To walk; to rove; to roam. [Obs.]
And loved in forests wild to space. -- Spenser.
Spaced (imp. & p. p.) of Space.
Spacong (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Space.
Space (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Spaced; p. pr. & vb. n. Spacong.] (Print.) To arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters.
Space (n.) The unlimited expanse in which everything is located; "they tested his ability to locate objects in space"; "the boundless regions of the infinite" [syn: space, infinite].
Space (n.) An empty area (usually bounded in some way between things); "the architect left space in front of the building"; "they stopped at an open space in the jungle"; "the space between his teeth."
Space (n.) An area reserved for some particular purpose; "the laboratory's floor space."
Space (n.) Any location outside the Earth's atmosphere; "the astronauts walked in outer space without a tether"; "the first major milestone in space exploration was in 1957, when the USSR's Sputnik 1 orbited the Earth" [syn: outer space, space].
Space (n.) A blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet" [syn: space, blank].
Space (n.) The interval between two times; "the distance from birth to death"; "it all happened in the space of 10 minutes" [syn: distance, space].
Space (n.) A blank area; "write your name in the space provided" [syn: space, blank space, place].
Space (n.) One of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff; "the spaces are the notes F-A-C-E."
Space (n.) (Printing) A block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences [syn: quad, space].
Space (v.) Place at intervals; "Space the interviews so that you have some time between the different candidates."
Space, () The space character, ASCII 32.
See octal forty. (2007-01-29)
Spacecraft (n.) 太空船，航天器 [M] [G] A vehicle capable of travelling in or into outer space; at present, all such vehicles are powered by rocket engine.
Spacecraft (n.) A craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun [syn: {spacecraft}, {ballistic capsule}, {space vehicle}].
Spacecraft (n.) A vehicle used for travelling in space.
Space fever ( n.) [U] A medical condition in which an astronaut’s body temperature is higher than usual because of the effects of weightlessness.
“This space fever, as we may call it, has potential implications for long-term space flights in terms of astronauts’ health, wellbeing and support,” the researchers wrote in their study, published in the journal Scientific Reports.
Spaceful (a.) Wide; extensive. -- Sandys.
Spaceless (a.) Without space. -- Coleridge.
Spacial (a.) See Spatial.
Spacial (a.) Pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space; "the first dimension to concentrate on is the spatial one"; "spatial ability"; "spatial awareness"; "the spatial distribution of the population" [syn: spatial, spacial] [ant: nonspatial].
Spacially (adv.) See Spatially. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Spacious (n.) Extending far and wide; vast in extent. "A spacious plain outstretched in circuit wide." -- Milton.
Spacious (n.) Inclosing an extended space; having large or ample room; not contracted or narrow; capacious; roomy; as, spacious bounds; a spacious church; a spacious hall. -- Spa"cious*ly, adv. -- Spa"cious*ness, n.
Spacious (a.) Very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies" [syn: broad, spacious, wide].
Spacious (a.) (Of buildings and rooms) having ample space; "a roomy but sparsely furnished apartment"; "a spacious ballroom" [syn: roomy, spacious].
Spadassin (n.) A bravo; a bully; a duelist. -- Ld. Lytton.
Spaddle (n.) A little spade. [Obs.]
Spade (n.) (Zool.) A hart or stag three years old. [Written also spaid, spayade.]
Spade (n.) A castrated man or beast.
Spade (n.) An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel. "With spade and pickax armed." -- Milton.
Spade (n.) One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade. "Let spades be trumps!" she said. -- Pope.
Spade (n.) A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
Spade bayonet, A bayonet with a broad blade which may be used digging; -- called also trowel bayonet.
Spade handle (Mach.), The forked end of a connecting rod in which a pin is held at both ends. See Illust. of Knuckle joint, under Knuckle.
Spade (n.) A playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it; "she led a low spade"; "spades were trumps."
Spade (n.) A sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot.
Spade (n.) (Ethnic slur) Extremely offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga" [syn: nigger, nigga, spade, coon, jigaboo, nigra].
Spade (v.) Dig (up) with a spade; "I spade compost into the flower beds."
SPADE, () Statistical Packet Anomaly Detection Engine (Snort, IDS)
SPADE, () Specification Processing And Dependency Extraction.
Specification language. G.S. Boddy, ICL Mainframes Div, FLAG/UD/3DR.003
Spade, TX -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Texas
Population (2000): 100
Housing Units (2000): 49
Land area (2000): 1.959316 sq. miles (5.074604 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.959316 sq. miles (5.074604 sq. km)
FIPS code: 69380
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.918381 N, 102.149654 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Spade, TX
Spade
Spaded (imp. & p. p.) of Spade.
Spading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spade.
Spade (v. t.) To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.
Spadebone (n.) Shoulder blade. [Prov. Eng.]
Spadefish (n.) (Zool.) An American market fish ({Chaetodipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.
Spadefish (n.) Deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters [syn: spadefish, angelfish, Chaetodipterus faber].
Spadefoot (n.) (Zool.) Any species of burrowing toads of the genus Scaphiopus, esp. Scaphiopus Holbrookii, of the Eastern United States; -- called also spade toad.
Spadefoot (n.) A burrowing toad of the northern hemisphere with a horny spade-like projection on each hind foot [syn: spadefoot, spadefoot toad].
Spadefuls (n. pl. ) of Spadeful.
Spadeful (n.) As much as a spade will hold or lift.
Spadeful (n.) The quantity a shovel can hold [syn: shovel, shovelful, spadeful].
Spader (n.) One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine.
Spadiceous (a.) Of a bright clear brown or chestnut color. -- Sir T. Browne.
Spadiceous (a.) (Bot.) Bearing flowers on a spadix; of the nature of a spadix.
Spadicose (a.) (Bot.) Spadiceous.
Spadille (n.) (Card Playing) The ace of spades in omber and quadrille.
Spadices (n. pl. ) of Spadix.
Spadixes (n. pl. ) of Spadix.
Spadix (n.) (Bot.) A fleshy spike of flowers, usually inclosed in a leaf called a spathe.
Spadix (n.) (Zool.) A special organ of the nautilus, due to a modification of the posterior tentacles.
Spadix (n.) The fleshy axis of a spike often surrounded by a spathe.
Spadones (n. pl. ) of Spado.
Spado (n.) Same as Spade, 2.
Spado (n.) (Law) An impotent person.
Spadroon (n.) A sword, especially a broadsword, formerly used both to cut and thrust.
Spaed (imp. & p. p.) of Spae.
Spaeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spae.
Spae (v. i.) To foretell; to divine. [Scot.]
Spaeman (n.) A prophet; a diviner. [Scot.]
Spaewife (n.) A female fortune teller. [Scot.]
Spaghetti (n.) [It.] A variety or macaroni made in tubes of small diameter. Spagyric
Spaghetti (n.) Spaghetti served with a tomato sauce.
Spaghetti (n.) Pasta in the form of long strings.
Spagyric (a.) Alt. of Spagyrical.
Spagyrical (a.) Chemical; alchemical. [Obs.]
Spagyric (n.) A spagyrist. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Spagyrist (n.) A chemist, esp. one devoted to alchemistic pursuits. [Obs.]
Spagyrist (n.) One of a sect which arose in the days of alchemy, who sought to discover remedies for disease by chemical means. The spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists. -- Encyc. Brit. Spahi
Spahi (n.) Alt. of Spahee.
Spahee (n.) Formerly, one of the Turkish cavalry.
Spahee (n.) An Algerian cavalryman in the French army.
Compare: Spade
Spade (n.) [Cf. Spay, n.] (Zool.) A hart or stag three years old. [Written also spaid, spayade.]
Spade (n.) [Cf. L. spado.] A castrated man or beast.
Spaid (n.) See 1st Spade.
Spake () imp. of Speak.
Spoke({Spake">Speak, v. i. [imp. Spoke({SpakeArchaic); p. p. Spoken({Spoke">Spoken({Spoke, Obs. or Colloq.); p. pr. & vb. n. Speaking.] To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.
Till at the last spake in this manner. -- Chaucer.
Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. -- 1 Sam. iii. 9.
Speak (v. i. ) To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.
That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set, as the tradesmen speak. -- Boyle.
An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. -- Shak.
During the century and a half which followed the Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English history. -- Macaulay.
Speak (v. i. ) To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally.
Many of the nobility made themselves popular by speaking in Parliament against those things which were most grateful to his majesty. -- Clarendon.
Speak (v. i. ) To discourse; to make mention; to tell.
Lycan speaks of a part of Caesar's army that came to him from the Leman Lake. -- Addison.
Speak (v. i. ) To give sound; to sound.
Make all our trumpets speak. -- Shak.
Speak (v. i. ) To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.
Thine eye begins to speak. -- Shak.
To speak of, To take account of, to make mention of. -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
To speak out, To speak loudly and distinctly; also, to speak unreservedly.
To speak well for, To commend; to be favorable to.
To speak with, To converse with. "Would you speak with me?" -- Shak.
Syn: To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate; pronounce; utter.
Spakenet (n.) A net for catching crabs. -- Halliwell.
Spaky (a.) Specky. [Obs.] -- hapman.
Spalding knife () A spalting knife.
Spalting knife, () A knife used in splitting codfish. [Written also spalding knife.]
Spale (n.) A lath; a shaving or chip, as of wood or stone. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Spale (n.) (Shipbuilding) A strengthening cross timber.
Spall (n.) The shoulder. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Spall (n.) A chip or fragment, especially a chip of stone as struck off the block by the hammer, having at least one feather-edge.
Spall (v. t.) (Mining) To break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of separating from rock. -- Pryce.
Spall (v. t.) (Masonry) To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.
Spall (v. i.) To give off spalls, or wedge-shaped chips; -- said of stone, as when badly set, with the weight thrown too much on the outer surface.
Spall (n.) A fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge; "a truck bearing a mound of blue spalls" [syn: spall, spawl].
Spalpeen (n.) A scamp; an Irish term for a good-for-nothing fellow; -- often used in good-humored contempt or ridicule. [Colloq.]
Spalt (n.) (Metal.) Spelter. [Colloq.]
Spalt (a.) Liable to break or split; brittle; as, spalt timber. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Spalt (a.) Heedless; clumsy; pert; saucy. [Prov. Eng.]
Spalt (v. t. & i.) To split off; to cleave off, as chips from a piece of timber, with an ax. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]
Spalting knife () A knife used in splitting codfish. [Written also spalding knife.]
Span () imp. & p. p. of Spin.
Span (n.) The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.
Span (n.) Hence, a small space or a brief portion of time.
Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound. -- Pope.
Life's but a span; I'll every inch enjoy. -- Farquhar.
Span (n.) The spread or extent of an arch between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between its supports.
Span (n.) (Naut.) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
Span (n.) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
Span blocks (Naut.), Blocks at the topmast and topgallant-mast heads, for the studding-sail halyards.
Span counter, An old English child's game, in which one throws a counter on the ground, and another tries to hit it with his counter, or to get his counter so near it that he can span the space between them, and touch both the counters. -- Halliwell. "Henry V., in whose time boys went to span counter for French crowns." -- Shak.
Span iron (Naut.), A special kind of harpoon, usually secured just below the gunwale of a whaleboat.
Span roof, A common roof, having two slopes and one ridge, with eaves on both sides. -- Gwilt.
Span shackle (Naut.), A large bolt driven through the forecastle deck, with a triangular shackle in the head to receive the heel of the old-fashioned fish davit. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Spanned (imp. & p. p.) of Span.
Spanning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Span.
Span (v. t.) To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object; as, to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder.
My right hand hath spanned the heavens. -- Isa. xiviii. 13.
Span (v. t.) To reach from one side of to the order; to stretch over as an arch.
The rivers were spanned by arches of solid masonry. -- prescott.
Span (v. t.) To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
Span (v. i.) To be matched, as horses. [U. S.]
Spin (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Spun (Archaic imp. Span); p. pr. & vb. n. Spinning.] To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material.
All the yarn she [Penelope] spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca full of moths. -- Shak.
Spin (v. t.) To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process, or by degrees; to extend to a great length; -- with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject.
Do you mean that story is tediously spun out? -- Sheridan.
Spin (v. t.) To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness.
By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives. -- L'Estrange.
Spin (v. t.) To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to spin a top.
Spin (v. t.) To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
Spin (v. t.) (Mech.) To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
To spin a yarn (Naut.), To tell a story, esp. a long or fabulous tale.
To spin hay (Mil.), To twist it into ropes for convenient carriage on an expedition.
To spin street yarn, To gad about gossiping. [Collog.]
Span (n.) The complete duration of something; "the job was finished in the span of an hour."
Span (n.) The distance or interval between two points.
Span (n.) Two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad].
Span (n.) A unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches).
Span (n.) A structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. [syn: bridge, span].
Span (n.) The act of sitting or standing astride [syn: straddle, span].
Span (v.) To cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries" [syn: cross, traverse, span, sweep].
Spanaemia (n.) (Med.) A condition of impoverishment of the blood; a morbid state in which the red corpuscles, or other important elements of the blood, are deficient.
Spanaemic (a.) (Med.) Of or pertaining to spanaemia; having impoverished blood.
Spancel (n.) A rope used for tying or hobbling the legs of a horse or cow. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.] -- Grose.
Spanceled (imp. & p. p.) of Spancel.
Spancelled () of Spancel.
Spanceling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spancel.
Spancelling () of Spancel.
Spancel (v. t.) To tie or hobble with a spancel. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.] -- Malone.
Spandogs (n. pl.) A pair of grappling dogs for hoisting logs and timber.
Spandrel (n.) (Arch.) The irregular triangular space between the curve of an arch and the inclosing right angle; or the space between the outer moldings of two contiguous arches and a horizontal line above them, or another arch above and inclosing them.
Spandrel (n.) A narrow mat or passe partout for a picture. [Cant]
Spandrel (n.) An approximately triangular surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above them [syn: spandrel, spandril].