Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 137
Sport (v. i.) To trifle. "He sports with his own life." -- Tillotson.
Sport (v. i.) (Bot. & Zool.) To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See {Sport}, n., 6. -- Darwin.
Syn: To play; frolic; game; wanton.
Sport (v. t.) 【口】炫耀；誇示；【生】突變為；芽變出 To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun.
Against whom do ye sport yourselves? -- Isa. lvii. 4.
Sport (v. t.) To represent by any knd of play.
Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth. -- Dryden.
Sport (v. t.) To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage. [Colloq.] -- Grose.
Sport (v. t.) To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams. [R.] -- Addison.
{To sport one's oak}. See under {Oak}, n.
Sport (n.) An active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition [syn: {sport}, {athletics}].
Sport (n.) The occupation of athletes who compete for pay.
Sport (n.) (Maine colloquial) A temporary summer resident of Maine [syn: {sport}, {summercater}].
Sport (n.) A person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances; "a good sport"; "a poor sport".
Sport (n.) Someone who engages in sports [syn: {sport}, {sportsman}, {sportswoman}].
Sport (n.) (Biology) An organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration [syn: {mutant}, {mutation}, {variation}, {sport}].
Sport (n.) Verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously); "he became a figure of fun"; "he said it in sport" [syn: {fun}, {play}, {sport}].
Sport (v.) Wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was sporting a new hat" [syn: {sport}, {feature}, {boast}].
Sport (v.) Play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom" [syn: {frolic}, {lark}, {rollick}, {skylark}, {disport}, {sport}, {cavort}, {gambol}, {frisk}, {romp}, {run around}, {lark about}].
Sportability (n.) Sportiveness.
Sportal (a.) Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports.
Sporter (n.) One who sports; a sportsman.
Sportful (a.) Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion.
Sportful (a.) Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive.
Sporting (a.) Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports.
Sportingly (adv.) In sport; sportively.
Sportive (a.) Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry.
Sportless (a.) Without sport or mirth; joyless.
Sportling (n.) A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play.
Sportsmen (n. pl. ) of Sportsman
Sportsman (n.) One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc.
Sportsmanship (n.) The practice of sportsmen; skill in field sports.
Sportulae (n. pl. ) of Sportula
Sportula (n.) A gift; a present; a prize; hence, an alms; a largess.
Sportulary (a.) Subsisting on alms or charitable contributions.
Sportule (n.) A charitable gift or contribution; a gift; an alms; a dole; a largess; a sportula.
Sporulation (n.) The act or process of forming spores; spore formation. See Illust. of Bacillus, b.
Sporule (n.) A small spore; a spore.
Sporuliferous (a.) Producing sporules.
Spot (n.) A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
Out, damned spot! Out, I say! -- Shak.
Spot (n.) A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
Yet Chloe, sure, was formed without a spot. -- Pope.
Spot (n.) A small part of a different color from the main part, or from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card.
Spot (n.) A small extent of space; a place; any particular place. "Fixed to one spot." -- Otway.
That spot to which I point is Paradise. -- Milton.
"A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed." -- Wordsworth.
Spot (n.) (Zool.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.
Spot (n.) (Zool.) A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife.
Spot (n.) (Zool.) The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See Redfish.
Spot (n.) pl. Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery. [Broker's Cant]
Crescent spot (Zool.), Any butterfly of the family Melitaeidae having crescent-shaped white spots along the margins of the red or brown wings.
Spot lens (Microscopy), A condensing lens in which the light is confined to an annular pencil by means of a small, round diaphragm (the spot), and used in dark-field illumination; -- called also spotted lens.
Spot rump (Zool.), The Hudsonian godwit ({Limosa haemastica).
Spots on the sun. (Astron.) See Sun spot, ander Sun.
On the spot, or Upon the spot, Immediately; before moving; without changing place; as, he made his decision on the spot.
It was determined upon the spot. -- Swift.
Syn: Stain; flaw; speck; blot; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish; place; site; locality.
Spotted (imp. & p. p.) of Spot
Spotting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spot
Spot (v. t.) To make visible marks upon with some foreign matter; to discolor in or with spots; to stain; to cover with spots or figures; as, to spot a garnment; to spot paper.
Spot (v. t.) To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal. [Cant]
Spot (v. t.) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse.
My virgin life no spotted thoughts shall stain. -- Sir P. Sidney.
If ever I shall close these eyes but once, May I live spotted for my perjury. -- Beau. & Fl.
To spot timber, To cut or chip it, in preparation for hewing.
Spot (v. i.) To become stained with spots.
Spot (a.) Lit., being on the spot, or place; hence (Com.), on hand for immediate delivery after sale; -- said of commodities; as, spot wheat.
Spot (n.) A point located with respect to surface features of some region; "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot on a planet" [syn: topographic point, place, spot]
Spot (n.) A short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
Spot (n.) An outstanding characteristic; "his acting was one of the high points of the movie" [syn: point, spot].
Spot (n.) A blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn: smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur].
Spot (n.) A small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red" [syn: spot, speckle, dapple, patch, fleck, maculation].
Spot (n.) A section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance; "they changed his spot on the program".
Spot (n.) A business establishment for entertainment; "night spot".
Spot (n.) A job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury" [syn: position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation].
Spot (n.) A slight attack of illness; "he has a touch of rheumatism" [syn: touch, spot].
Spot (n.) A small piece or quantity of something; "a spot of tea"; "a bit of paper"; "a bit of lint"; "I gave him a bit of my mind" [syn: spot, bit].
Spot (n.) A mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit) [syn: spot, pip].
Spot (n.) A lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer [syn: spotlight, spot].
Spot (n.) A playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value; "an eight-spot".
Spot (n.) An act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook" [syn: blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain].
Spot (v.) Catch sight of [syn: descry, spot, espy, spy]
Spot (v.) detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph" [syn: spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart].
Spot (v.) Mar or impair with a flaw; "her face was blemished" [syn: blemish, spot].
Spot (v.) Make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth" [syn: spot, fleck, blob, blot].
Spot (v.) Become spotted; "This dress spots quickly".
Spot (v.) Mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition; "spot the areas that one should clearly identify".
SPOT, () Smart Personal Object Technology (MS, Internet)
Spotless (a.) Without a spot; especially, free from reproach or impurity; pure; untainted; innocent; as, a spotless mind; spotless behavior.
A spotless virgin, and a faultless wife. -- Waller.
Syn: Blameless; unspotted; unblemished; pure; immaculate; irreproachable. See Blameless. -- Spot"less*ly, adv. -- Spot"less*ness, n.
Spotless (a.) Completely neat and clean; "the apartment was immaculate"; "in her immaculate white uniform"; "a spick-and-span kitchen"; "their spic red-visored caps" [syn: immaculate, speckless, spick-and-span, spic-and-span, spic, spick, spotless].
Spotlight (n.) （舞臺等的）聚光燈；聚光燈照明圈 [C]；公眾注意的中心 [the S]；（汽車上的）反光燈，探路燈 [C] The projected spot or circle of light used to illuminate brilliantly a single person or object or group on the stage, leaving the rest of the stage more or less unilluminated.
Spotlight (n.) Hence, conspicuous public notice. [Cant or Colloq.].
Spotlight (n.) A lighting apparatus designed to throw an intense beam of light onto a small area.
Spotlight (n.) A focus of public attention; "he enjoyed being in the limelight"; "when Congress investigates it brings the full glare of publicity to the agency" [syn: {limelight}, {spotlight}, {glare}, {public eye}].
Spotlight (n.) A lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer [syn: {spotlight}, {spot}].
Spotlight (v.) 聚光照明；使公眾注意；使突出醒目 Move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent; "The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics" [syn: {foreground}, {highlight}, {spotlight}, {play up}] [ant: {background}, {downplay}, {play down}].
Spotlight (v.) Illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater.
Spotted (a.) Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The spotted panther." -- Spenser.
Spotted fever (Med.), A name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Spotted tree (Bot.), An Australian tree ({Flindersia maculosa); -- so called because its bark falls off in spots.
Spotted (a.) Having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture); "a field patched with ice and snow"; "the wall had a spotty speckled effect"; "a black-and-white spotted cow" [syn: patched, spotty, spotted].
Spottedness (n.) State or quality of being spotted.
Spotter (n.) One who spots.
Spotter (n.) A worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove Spots.
Spotter (n.) A worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers)
Spotter (n.) A person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event [syn: lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket].
Spotter (n.) Someone who is the first to observe something [syn: finder, discoverer, spotter].
Spottiness (n.) The state or quality of being spotty.
Spotty (a.) Full of spots; marked with spots.
Spousage (n.) Espousal. [Obs.] -- Bale.
Spousal (a.) Of or pertaining to a spouse or marriage; nuptial; matrimonial; conjugal; bridal; as, spousal rites; spousal ornaments. -- Wordsworth.
Spousal (n.) Marriage; nuptials; espousal; -- generally used in the plural; as, the spousals of Hippolita. --Dryden.
Boweth your head under that blissful yoke . . . Which that men clepeth spousal or wedlock. -- Chaucer.
The spousals of the newborn year. -- Emerson.
Spousal (a.) Of or relating to a wedding; "bridal procession"; "nuptial day"; "spousal rites"; "wedding cake"; "marriage vows" [syn: bridal, nuptial, spousal].
Spousal (a.) Relating to a spouse; "a fitting symbol of spousal love".
Spouse (v. t.) 【古】和……結婚 To wed; to espouse. [Obs.]
This markis hath her spoused with a ring. -- Chaucer.
Though spoused, yet wanting wedlock's solemnize. -- Spenser.
She was found again, and spoused to Marinell. -- Spenser.
Spouse (n.) 配偶 [C] A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife.
At last such grace I found, and means I wrought, That I that lady to my spouse had won. -- Spenser.
Spouse (n.) A married man, in distinct from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband. [Obs.]
At which marriage was [were] no persons present but the spouse, the spousess, the Duchess of Bedford her mother, the priest, two gentlewomen, and a young man. -- Fabyan.
Spouse (n.) A person's partner in marriage [syn: {spouse}, {partner}, {married person}, {mate}, {better half}].
Spouse (n.) (Cant. 4:8-12; Hos. 4:13, 14) may denote either husband or wife, but in the Scriptures it denotes only the latter.
Spouse-breach (n.) Adultery.
Spouseless (a.) Destitute of a spouse; unmarried.
Spousess (n.) A wife or bride.
Spouted (imp. & p. p.) of Spout
Spouting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spout
Spout (v. t.) To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.
Spout (v. t.) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
Spout (v. t.) To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch.
Spout (v. i.) To issue with with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery.
Spout (v. i.) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
Spout (v. i.) To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
Spout (v. t.) That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building.
Spout (v. t.) A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.
Spout (v. t.) A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.
Spouter (n.) One who, or that which, spouts.
Spoutfish (n.) A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (Mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes.
Spoutless (a.) Having no spout.
Spoutshell (n.) Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.
Sprack (a.) Quick; lively; alert.
Sprad () p. p. of Spread.
Spradde () imp. of Spread.
Sprag (n.) A young salmon.
Sprag (n.) A billet of wood; a piece of timber used as a prop.
Spragged (imp. & p. p.) of Sprag
Spragging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprag
Sprag (v. t.) To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep grade, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel.
Sprag (v. t.) To prop or sustain with a sprag.
Sprag (a.) See Sprack, a.
Sprained (imp. & p. p.) of Sprain
Spraining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprain
Sprain (v. t.) To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation; as, to sprain one's ankle.
Sprain (n.) The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining; as, a bad sprain of the wrist.
Spraints (v. t.) The dung of an otter.
Sprang () imp. of Spring.
Sprat (n.) 【魚】鯡屬小海魚；小個子 [C] A small European herring (Clupea sprattus) closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard; -- called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds.
Sprat (n.) A California surf-fish (Rhacochilus toxotes); -- called also {alfione}, and {perch}.
{Sprat borer} (Zool.), The red-throated diver; -- so called from its fondness for sprats. See {Diver}.
{Sprat loon}. (Zool.) The young of the great northern diver. [Prov. Eng.]
{Sprat loon}. (Zool.) The red-throated diver. See {Diver}.
{Sprat mew} (Zool.), The kittiwake gull.
Sprat (n.) Small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines [syn: {sprat}, {brisling}].
Sprat (n.) Small herring processed like a sardine [syn: {brisling}, {sprat}, {Clupea sprattus}].
Sprawled (imp. & p. p.) of Sprawl
Sprawling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprawl
Sprawl (v. i.) To spread and stretch the body or limbs carelessly in a horizontal position; to lie with the limbs stretched out ungracefully.
Sprawl (v. i.) To spread irregularly, as vines, plants, or tress; to spread ungracefully, as chirography.
Sprawl (v. i.) To move, when lying down, with awkward extension and motions of the limbs; to scramble in creeping.
Sprawling (a.) 蔓生的；不規則地伸展的；無序蔓延擴展的；蜘蛛爬似的；sprawl 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 sprawling； Spreading out in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair" [syn: sprawling, straggling, rambling, straggly].
Sprawling (n.) 懶散（或拙笨地）伸開（手足） An ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about [syn: sprawl, sprawling].
Srawls (n. pl.) Small branches of a tree; twigs; sprays.
Spray (n.) A small shoot or branch; a twig.
Spray (n.) A collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a beautiful spray.
Spray (n.) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold.
Spray (n.) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
Spray (v. t.) Water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like.
Spray (v. t.) A jet of fine medicated vapor, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer.