Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 136
Spongy (a.) 海綿狀的；輕軟的；富有彈性的；多孔的；有吸水性的 Having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge.
{Spongy lead} (Chem.), Sponge lead. See under {Sponge}.
{Spongy platinum}. See under {Platinum}.
Spongy (a.) Easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility; "spongy bread" [syn: {spongy}, {squashy}, {squishy}, {spongelike}].
Spongy (a.) Like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed [syn: {spongy}, {spongelike}].
Compare: Spunk
Spunk (n.) [Written also sponk.] Wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of tinder made from a species of fungus; punk; amadou. -- Sir T. Browne.
Spunk (n.) An inflammable temper; spirit; mettle; pluck; as, a man of spunk. [Colloq.]
A lawless and dangerous set, men of spunk, and spirit, and power, both of mind and body. -- Prof. Wilson.
Spunk (n.) Material for starting a fire [syn: kindling, tinder, touchwood, spunk, punk].
Spunk (n.) The courage to carry on; "he kept fighting on pure spunk"; "you haven't got the heart for baseball" [syn: heart, mettle, nerve, spunk].
Sponk (n.) See Spunk.
Sponsal (a.) Relating to marriage, or to a spouse; spousal.
Sponsible (a.) Responsible; worthy of credit. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Sponsion (n.) （為他人所作的）保證，擔保；【律】（國際法）未經授權的代表所作的約定 The act of becoming surety for another.
Sponsion (n.) (Internat. Law) An act or engagement on behalf of a state, by an agent not specially authorized for the purpose, or by one who exceeds the limits of authority.
Sponsional (a.) Of or pertaining to a pledge or agreement; responsible. [R.]
He is righteous even in that representative and sponsional person he put on. -- Abp. Leighton.
Sponson (n.) (Shipbuilding) 機側浮緣 One of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat.
Sponson (n.) (Shipbuilding) One of the slanting supports under the guards of a steamboat.
Sponson (n.) (Shipbuilding) One of the armored projections fitted with gun ports, used on modern war vessels.
Sponsor (n.) 教父，保証人，贊助者，發起者 One who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety.
Sponsor (n.) One who at the baptism of an infant professes the Christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education; a godfather or godmother.
Sponsor (n.) A person who vouches for another as fit for some post or task; as, one needs two sponsors to be considered for membership.
Sponsor (n.) A person or group that assumes financial responsibility for some activity, and may or may not participate in its organization and execution.
Sponsor (n.) A person or organization, usually a commercial organization, which pays the cost of an activity, such as a radio or television broadcast, and in return is given the right to advertise itself or its products as part of the activity; as, now a word from our sponsor.
Sponsor (n.) Someone who supports or champions something [syn: {patron}, {sponsor}, {supporter}].
Sponsor (n.) An advocate who presents a person (as for an award or a degree or an introduction etc.) [syn: {presenter}, {sponsor}].
Sponsor (v.) (v. t.) 發起，贊助，倡議 Assume sponsorship of [syn: {sponsor}, {patronize}, {patronise}].
Sponsor (v.) Assume responsibility for or leadership of; "The senator announced that he would sponsor the health care plan".
Sponsor (v.) Do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of [syn: {patronize}, {patronise}, {shop}, {shop at}, {buy at}, {frequent}, {sponsor}] [ant: {boycott}].
Sponsor (n.), Civil law. He who intervenes for another voluntarily and without being requested. The engagement which he enters into is only accessory to the principal. Vide Dig. 17, 1, 18; Nov. 4, ch. 1 Code de Com. art. 158, 159; Code Nap. 1236 Wolff, Inst. Sec. 1556.
Sponsorial (a.) Pertaining to a sponsor.
Sponsorship (n.) State of being a sponsor.
Sponsorship (n.) The act of sponsoring (either officially or financially).
Spontaneities (n. pl. ) of Spontaneity
Spontaneity (n.) 自發性；自然發生 The quality or state of being spontaneous, or acting from native feeling, proneness, or temperament, without constraint or external force.
Romney Leigh, who lives by diagrams, And crosses not the spontaneities Of all his individual, personal life With formal universals. -- Mrs. Browning.
Spontaneity (n.) (Biol.) The tendency to undergo change, characteristic of both animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or cheked by the environment.
Spontaneity (n.) (Biol.) The tendency to activity of muscular tissue, including the voluntary muscles, when in a state of healthful vigor and refreshment.
Spontaneity (n.) The quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint; "the spontaneity of his laughter" [syn: spontaneity, spontaneousness].
Spontaneous (a.) 自發的；非出於強制的；（動作等）無意識的，不由自主的 Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion.
Spontaneous (a.) Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or natural law, without external force; as, spontaneous motion; spontaneous growth.
Spontaneous (a.) Produced without being planted, or without human labor; as, a spontaneous growth of wood.
{Spontaneous combustion}, Combustion produced in a substance by the evolution of heat through the chemical action of its own elements; as, the spontaneous combustion of waste matter saturated with oil.
{Spontaneous generation}. (Biol.) See under {Generation}.
Syn: Voluntary; uncompelled; willing.
Usage: {Spontaneous}, {Voluntary}. What is voluntary is the result of a volition, or act of choice; it therefore implies some degree of consideration, and may be the result of mere reason without excited feeling. What is spontaneous springs wholly from feeling, or a sudden impulse which admits of no reflection; as, a spontaneous burst of applause. Hence, the term is also applied to things inanimate when they are produced without the determinate purpose or care of man. "Abstinence which is but voluntary fasting, and . . . exercise which is but voluntary labor." -- J. Seed.
Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their firstborn away. -- Goldsmith. -- {Spon*ta"ne*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Spon*ta"ne*ous*ness}, n.
Spontaneous (a.) Happening or arising without apparent external cause; "spontaneous laughter"; "spontaneous combustion"; "a spontaneous abortion" [syn: {spontaneous}, {self- generated}] [ant: {induced}].
Spontaneous (a.) Said or done without having been planned or written in advance; "he made a few ad-lib remarks" [syn: {ad-lib}, {spontaneous}, {unwritten}].
Spontaneously (adv.) 自然地；自發地；不由自主地 In a spontaneous manner; "this shift occurs spontaneously".
Spontaneously (adv.) Without advance preparation; "he spoke ad lib" [syn: {ad lib}, {ad libitum}, {spontaneously}, {impromptu}].
Spontoon (n.) (Mil.) A kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers.
Spook (n.) A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin. [Written also spuke.] -- Ld. Lytton.
Spook (n.) (Zool.) The chimaera.
Spook (n.) Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric [syn: creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spook].
Spook (n.) A mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" [syn: ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre].
Spook (v.) Frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action; "The noise spooked the horse".
Spool (n.) A piece of cane or red with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon.
Spool stand, An article holding spools of thread, turning on pins, -- used by women at their work.
Spooled (imp. & p. p.) of Spool
Spooling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spool
Spool (v. t.) To wind on a spool or spools.
Spool (n.) A winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound [syn: bobbin, spool, reel].
Spool (v.) Transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage.
Spool (v.) Wind onto a spool or a reel.
SPOOL, () Simultaneous Peripheral Operations OnLine
Spool (v. i.) To send files to some device or program (a spooler) that queues them up and does something useful with them later.
Without qualification, the spooler is the print spooler controlling output of jobs to a printer; but the term has been used in connection with other peripherals (especially plotters and graphics devices) and occasionally even for input devices. See also demon.
SPOOL, () Acronym for Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line; but see also spool. [{Jargon File] (1996-05-20)
Spool, () An object-oriented logic programming language.
["An Experience with a Prolog Based Language", K. Fukunaga et al, SIGPLAN Notices 21(11):224-231 (Nov 1986) (OOPSLA '86)]. [{Jargon File] (1995-03-25)
Spool, () To send files to some device or program (a "{spooler" or demon) that puts them in a queue for later processing of some kind. Without qualification, the spooler is the "print spooler" controlling output of jobs to a printer; but the term has been used in connection with other peripherals (especially plotters and graphics devices) and occasionally even for input devices.
The term "SPOOL" has been attributed to IBM as an acronym for Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line but it's widely thought to have been contrived for effect.
[No connection with "spool of magnetic tape"?] [{Jargon File] (1996-05-20)
Spuller (n.) [For spooler.] [See Spool.] One employed to inspect yarn, to see that it is well spun, and fit for the loom. [Prov. Eng.]
Spooler (n.) One who, or that which, spools.
Spoom (v. i.) (Naut.) To be driven steadily and swiftly, as before a strong wind; to be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a part of the sails spread; to scud under bare poles. [Written also spoon.]
When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, My heaving wishes help to fill the sail. -- Dryden.
Spoom (v. i.) (Naut.) To be driven steadily and swiftly, as before a strong wind; to be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a part of the sails spread; to scud under bare poles. [Written also spoon.]
When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, My heaving wishes help to fill the sail. -- Dryden.
Spoon (v. i.) (Naut.) See Spoom. [Obs.]
Spoon (n.) [C] 匙，湯匙；一匙的量 [（+of）]；匙狀物；匙狀假餌；匙形槳 An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.
"Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon That shall eat with a fiend," thus heard I say. -- Chaucer.
He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. -- Shak.
Spoon (n.) Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.
Spoon (n.) Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. [Slang] -- Hood.
Spoon (n.) (Golf) A wooden club with a lofted face. -- Encyc. Of Sport.
Spoon bait (Fishing), A lure used in trolling, consisting of a glistening metallic plate shaped like the bowl of a spoon with a fishhook attached.
Spoon bit, A bit for boring, hollowed or furrowed along one side.
Spoon net, A net for landing fish.
Spoon oar. See under Oar.
Spoon (v. t.) 用匙舀；舀取 [O] [（+out/ up）]；使成匙形；輕輕向上擊（球） To take up in, or as in, a spoon.
Spoon (v. t.) (Fishing) To catch by fishing with a spoon bait.
He had with him all the tackle necessary for spooning pike. -- Mrs. Humphry Ward.
Spoon (v. t.) In croquet, golf, etc., to push or shove (a ball) with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
Spoon (v. i.) To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love. [Colloq.]
Spoon (v. i.) To fish with a spoon bait.
Spoon (v. i.) In croquet, golf, etc., to spoon a ball.
Spoon (n.) A piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food.
Spoon (n.) As much as a spoon will hold; "he added two spoons of sugar" [syn: spoon, spoonful].
Spoon (n.) Formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face.
Spoon (v.) Scoop up or take up with a spoon; "spoon the sauce over the roast".
Spoon (v.) Snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others [syn: smooch, spoon].
Shoveler (n.) [Also shoveller.] One who, or that which, shovels.
Shoveler (n.) (Zool.) A river duck ({Spatula clypeata), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck ({Spatula rhynchotis), is a similar species.
Spoonbill (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of wading birds of the genera Ajaja and Platalea, and allied genera, in which the long bill is broadly expanded and flattened at the tip.
Note: The roseate spoonbill of America ({Ajaja ajaja), and the European spoonbill ({Platalea leucorodia) are the best known. The royal spoonbill ({Platalea regia) of Australia is white, with the skin in front of the eyes naked and black. The male in the breeding season has a fine crest.
Spoonbill (n.) The shoveler. See Shoveler, 2.
Spoonbill (n.) The ruddy duck. See under Ruddy.
Spoonbill (n.) The paddlefish.
Ruddy (a.) Of a red color; red, or reddish; as, a ruddy sky; a ruddy flame. -- Milton.
They were more ruddy in body than rubies. -- Lam. iv. 7.
Ruddy (a.) Of a lively flesh color, or the color of the human skin in high health; as, ruddy cheeks or lips. -- Dryden.
Ruddy+duck+(Zool.),+An+American+duck+({Erismatura+rubida">Ruddy duck (Zool.), An American duck ({Erismatura rubida) having a broad bill and a wedge-shaped tail composed of stiff, sharp feathers. The adult male is rich brownish red on the back, sides, and neck, black on the top of the head, nape, wings, and tail, and white on the cheeks. The female and young male are dull brown mixed with blackish on the back; grayish below. Called also dunbird, dundiver, ruddy diver, stifftail, spinetail, hardhead, sleepy duck, fool duck, spoonbill, etc.
Ruddy plover (Zool.) The sanderling.
Spoonbill (n.) Wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon.
Shoveler (n.) One who, or that which, shovels.
Shoveler (n.) (Zool.) A river duck ({Spatula clypeata), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck ({Spatula rhynchotis), is a similar species.
Spoonbill (n.) (Zool.) (a) Any one of several species of wading birds of the genera Ajaja and Platalea, and allied genera, in which the long bill is broadly expanded and flattened at the tip.
Note: The roseate spoonbill of America ({Ajaja ajaja), and the European spoonbill ({Platalea leucorodia) are the best known. The royal spoonbill ({Platalea regia) of Australia is white, with the skin in front of the eyes naked and black. The male in the breeding season has a fine crest.
Spoonbill (n.) The shoveler. See Shoveler, 2.
Spoonbill (n.) The ruddy duck. See under Ruddy.
Spoonbill (n.) The paddlefish.
Ruddy (a.) Of a red color; red, or reddish; as, a ruddy sky; a ruddy flame. -- Milton.
They were more ruddy in body than rubies. -- Lam. iv. 7.
Ruddy (a.) Of a lively flesh color, or the color of the human skin in high health; as, ruddy cheeks or lips. -- Dryden.
Ruddy+duck+(Zool.),+An+American+duck+({Erismatura+rubida">Ruddy duck (Zool.), an American duck ({Erismatura rubida) having a broad bill and a wedge-shaped tail composed of stiff, sharp feathers. The adult male is rich brownish red on the back, sides, and neck, black on the top of the head, nape, wings, and tail, and white on the cheeks. The female and young male are dull brown mixed with blackish on the back; grayish below. Called also dunbird, dundiver, ruddy diver, stifftail, spinetail, hardhead, sleepy duck, fool duck, spoonbill, etc.
Ruddy plover (Zool.) The sanderling.
Spoonbill (n.) Wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon.
Spoon-billed (a.) (Zool.) Having the bill expanded and spatulate at the end.
Spoondrift (n.) Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift.
Spoondrift (n.) Spray blown up from the surface of the sea [syn: spindrift, spoondrift].
Spoonerism (n.) 【語】斯本內現象（即字音的無意互換現象） Transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words.
Spooney (a.) Weak-minded; demonstratively fond; as, spooney lovers. [Spelt also spoony.] [Colloq.]
Spooneys (n. pl. ) of Spooney
Spooney (n.) A weak-minded or silly person; one who is foolishly fond. [Colloq.]
There is no doubt, whatever, that I was a lackadaisical young spooney. -- Dickens.
Spoonfuls (n. pl. ) of Spoonful
Spoonful (n.) The quantity which a spoon contains, or is able to contain; as, a teaspoonful; a tablespoonful.
Spoonful (n.) Hence, a small quantity. -- Arbuthnot.
Spoonily (adv.) In a spoony manner.
Spooning (n.) A form of affection between a couple. Where the man lays front to back with the girl. They fit together like spoons.
// Kevin and Michelle spooned all night!
Spooning (n.) A form of cuddling where the boyfriend/ taller girlfriend lays facing the same direction as their shorter boyfriend/ girlfriend and wraps their arms around the waist from the back, fitting together like "spoons".
//
Person 1: Did you hear that Mark and Shannon were spooning
last night?
// Person 2: Yeah... They do it too much.. They need to get a
room!!
Spoon-meat (n.) Food that is, or must be, taken with a spoon; liquid food.
Spoonwood (n.) The mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia).
Spoonworm (n.) A gephyrean worm of the genus Thalassema, having a spoonlike probiscis.
Spoonwort (n.) Scurvy grass.
Spoony (a. & n.) Same as Spooney.
Spoor (n.) The track or trail of any wild animal; as, the spoor of an elephant; -- used originally by travelers in South Africa.
Spoor (v. i.) To follow a spoor or trail.
Sporades (n. pl.) Stars not included in any constellation; -- called also informed, or unformed, stars.
Sporadial (a.) Sporadic.
Sporadic (a.) 偶爾發生的；零星發生的；分散的 Occurring singly, or apart from other things of the same kind, or in scattered instances; separate; single; as, a sporadic fireball; a sporadic case of disease; a sporadic example of a flower.
{Sporadic disease} (Med.), A disease which occurs in single and scattered cases. See the Note under {Endemic}, a.
Sporadic (a.) Recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids" [ant: {continual}].
Sporadic (a.) 偶爾發生的；陣發性的；斷斷續續的 Happening sometimes; not regular or continuous.
// Sporadic gunfire.
// A sporadic electricity supply.
More than 100 people have been killed this year in sporadic outbursts of ethnic violence.
Synonym:
Occasional (a.) 偶爾的；不經常的 (C1) Not happening or done often or regularly.
// I play the occasional game of tennis.
// He has the occasional cigar after dinner.
Sporadical (a.) Sporadic.
Sporadically (adv.) 偶爾地，零星地；偶發地，個別地 In a sporadic manner.
Sporadically (adv.) In a sporadic manner; "he only works sporadically" [syn: {sporadically}, {periodically}].
Sporangiophore (n.) The axis or receptacle in certain ferns (as Trichomanes), which bears the sporangia.
Sporangia (n. pl. ) of Sporangium
Sporangium (n.) A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.
Spore (n.) (Bot.) 孢子 One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species.
Note: Spores are produced differently in the different classes of cryptogamous plants, and as regards their nature are often so unlike that they have only their minuteness in common. The peculiar spores of diatoms (called auxospores) increase in size, and at length acquire a siliceous coating, thus becoming new diatoms of full size. Compare Macrospore, Microspore, Oospore, Resting spore, Sphaerospore, Swarmspore, Tetraspore, Zoospore, and Zygospore.
Spore (n.) An embryo sac or embryonal vesicle in the ovules of flowering plants.
Spore (n.) (Biol.) A minute grain or germ; a small, round or ovoid body, formed in certain organisms, and by germination giving rise to a new organism; as, the reproductive spores of bacteria, etc.
Spore (n.) (Biol.) One of the parts formed by fission in certain Protozoa. See Spore formation, belw.
Spore formation. (a) (Biol) A mode of reproduction resembling multiple fission, common among Protozoa, in which the organism breaks up into a number of pieces, or spores, each of which eventually develops into an organism like the parent form. --Balfour.
Spore formation. (b) The formation of reproductive cells or spores, as in the growth of bacilli.
Spore (n.) A small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion; "a sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes".
Spore (n.) Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
Spore (n.) A germ, germ cell, seed, or the like.
Spore (v. i.) 長孢子 To bear or produce spores.
Spore (n.) 孢子 是一種脫離親本後能發育成新個體的單細胞或少數細胞的繁殖體 In biology, a spore is a unit of sexual or asexual reproduction that may be adapted for dispersal and for survival, often for extended periods of time, in unfavorable conditions. Spores form part of the life cycles of many plants, algae, fungi and protozoa. [1] Bacterial spores are not part of a sexual cycle but are resistant structures used for survival under unfavourable conditions. Myxozoan spores release amoebulae into their hosts for parasitic infection, but also reproduce within the hosts through the pairing of two nuclei within the plasmodium, which develops from the amoebula. [2]
Spores are usually haploid and unicellular and are produced by meiosis in the sporangium of a diploid sporophyte. Under favourable conditions the spore can develop into a new organism using mitotic division, producing a multicellular gametophyte, which eventually goes on to produce gametes. Two gametes fuse to form a zygote which develops into a new sporophyte. This cycle is known as alternation of generations.
The spores of seed plants, however, are produced internally and the megaspores, formed within the ovules and the microspores are involved in the formation of more complex structures that form the dispersal units, the seeds and pollen grains.
Sporid (n.) (Bot.) A sporidium. -- Lindley.
Sporidiferous (a.) (Bot.) Bearing sporidia.
Sporidia (n. pl. ) of Sporidium
Sporidium (n.) (Bot.) A secondary spore, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi.
Sporidium (n.) (Bot.) A spore.
Sporiferous (a.) (Biol.) 【生物學】帶胞子的 Bearing or producing spores.
Sporification (n.) (Biol.) Spore formation. See Spore formation (b), under Spore.
Sporocarp (n.) (Bot.) A closed body or conceptacle containing one or more masses of spores or sporangia.
Sporocarp (n.) (Bot.) A sporangium.
Sporocarp (n.) Specialized leaf branch in certain aquatic ferns that encloses the sori or clusters of sporangia [syn: sporocarp, spore case].
Sporocyst (n.) (Zool.) An asexual zooid, usually forming one of a series of larval forms in the agamic reproduction of various trematodes and other parasitic worms. The sporocyst generally develops from an egg, but in its turn produces other larvae by internal budding, or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of minute germs. See Redia.
Sporocyst (n.) (Zool.) Any protozoan when it becomes encysted produces germs by sporulation.
Sporogenesis (n.) (Biol.) Reproduction by spores.
Sporogony (n.) The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.
Sporophore (n.) (Bot.) A placenta.
Sporophore (n.) (Bot.) That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore.
Sporophore (n.) A spore-bearing branch or organ: the part of the thallus of a sporophyte that develops spores; in ferns and mosses and liverworts is practically equivalent to the sporophyte.
Sporophoric (a.) (Bot.) Having the nature of a sporophore.
Sporosac (n.) (Zool.) A hydrozoan reproductive zooid or gonophore which does not become medusoid in form or structure. See Illust. under Athecata.
Sporosac (n.) (Zool.) An early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia.
Sporozoa (n. pl.) (Zool.) An extensive division of parasitic Protozoa, which increase by sporulation. It includes the Gregarinida.
Sporozoa (n.) Strictly parasitic protozoans that are usually immobile; includes plasmodia and coccidia and piroplasms and malaria parasites [syn: Sporozoa, class Sporozoa].
Sporozoid (n.) (Bot.) Same as Zoospore.
Compare: Zoospore
Zoospore (n.) (Bot.) A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zoospores are produced by many green, and by some olive-brown, algae. In certain species they are divided into the larger macrozoospores and the smaller microzoospores. Called also sporozoid, and swarmspore.
Zoospore (n.) (Zool.) See Swarmspore.
Sporran (n.) A large purse or pouch made of skin with the hair or fur on, worn in front of the kilt by Highlanders when in full dress.
Sporran (n.) A fur or leather pouch worn at the front of the kilt as part of the traditional dress of Scottish Highlanders.
Sport (n.) 遊戲，娛樂，消遣 [U] [C]；運動，體育競技活動 [C] [U]；【英】運動會 [P] That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
It is as sport to a fool to do mischief. -- Prov. x. 23.
Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Think it but a minute spent in sport. -- Shak.
Sport (n.) Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest. -- Shak.
Sport (n.) That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
Flitting leaves, the sport of every wind. -- Dryden.
Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions. -- John Clarke.
Sport (n.) Play; idle jingle.
An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause. -- Broome.
Sport (n.) Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
Sport (n.) (Bot. & Zool.) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. See {Sporting plant}, under {Sporting}.
Sport (n.) A sportsman; a gambler. [Slang]
{In sport}, In jest; for play or diversion. "So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in sport?" -- Prov. xxvi. 19.
Syn: Play; game; diversion; frolic; mirth; mock; mockery; jeer.
Sported (imp. & p. p.) of Sport
Sporting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sport
Sport (v. i.) To play; to frolic; to wanton.
[Fish], Sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold. -- Milton.
Sport (v. i.) To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.