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   saponin
         n 1: any of various plant glucosides that form soapy lathers
               when mixed and agitated with water; used in detergents and
               foaming agents and emulsifiers

English Dictionary: spininess by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac
n
  1. a French soldier and dramatist remembered chiefly for fighting many duels (often over the size of his nose); was immortalized in 1897 in a play by Edmond Rostand (1619-1655)
    Synonym(s): Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
n
  1. impressive monuments created in the ancient world that were regarded with awe
    Synonym(s): Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Seven Wonders of the World
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Seven Wonders of the World
n
  1. impressive monuments created in the ancient world that were regarded with awe
    Synonym(s): Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Seven Wonders of the World
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
seven-membered
adj
  1. of a chemical compound having a ring with seven members
    Synonym(s): seven-membered, 7-membered
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sheepman
n
  1. a man who raises (or tends) sheep
  2. a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock
    Synonym(s): sheepherder, shepherd, sheepman
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ship money
n
  1. an impost levied in England to provide money for ships for national defense
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shipment
n
  1. goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment]
  2. the act of sending off something
    Synonym(s): dispatch, despatch, shipment
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sphenion
n
  1. the anterior tip of the parietal bone
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spininess
n
  1. the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines
    Synonym(s): prickliness, bristliness, spininess, thorniness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spinning
n
  1. creating thread
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spinning frame
n
  1. spinning machine that draws, twists, and winds yarn
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spinning jenny
n
  1. an early spinning machine with multiple spindles
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spinning machine
n
  1. a textile machine for spinning yarn and thread
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spinning rod
n
  1. a fishing rod designed for casting a spinning lure
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spinning top
n
  1. a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin; "he got a bright red top and string for his birthday"
    Synonym(s): top, whirligig, teetotum, spinning top
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spinning wheel
n
  1. a small domestic spinning machine with a single spindle that is driven by hand or foot
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spiny anteater
n
  1. a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea
    Synonym(s): echidna, spiny anteater, anteater
  2. a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia
    Synonym(s): echidna, spiny anteater, anteater
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
subhuman
adj
  1. less than human or not worthy of a human being; "treated natives as subhuman"; "a subhuman spectacle"; "the subhuman primates"
    Antonym(s): superhuman
  2. unfit for human beings; "subhuman conditions of life"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
submandibular gland
n
  1. a salivary gland inside the lower jaw on either side that produces most of the nocturnal saliva; discharges saliva into the mouth under the tongue
    Synonym(s): submaxillary gland, submaxillary salivary gland, submandibular gland, submandibular salivary gland, mandibular gland
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
submandibular salivary gland
n
  1. a salivary gland inside the lower jaw on either side that produces most of the nocturnal saliva; discharges saliva into the mouth under the tongue
    Synonym(s): submaxillary gland, submaxillary salivary gland, submandibular gland, submandibular salivary gland, mandibular gland
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
submenu
n
  1. a secondary menu that appears while you are holding the cursor over an item on the primary menu
    Synonym(s): hierarchical menu, cascading menu, submenu
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Saponin \Sap"o*nin\, n. [L. sapo, -onis soap: cf. F. saponine.]
      (Chem.)
      A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of
      soapwort ({Saponaria}), in the bark of soap bark
      ({Quillaia}), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous
      powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and
      produces a local an[91]sthesia. Formerly called also
      {struthiin}, {quillaiin}, {senegin}, {polygalic acid}, etc.
      By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which
      saponin proper is the type.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Savement \Save"ment\, n.
      The act of saving. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Scapement \Scape"ment\, n. [See {Scape}, v., {Escapement}.]
      Same as {Escapement}, 3.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sepiment \Sep"i*ment\, n. [L. sepimentum, saepimentum, from
      sepire, saepire, to hedge in.]
      Something that separates; a hedge; a fence. [R.] --Bailey.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wonder \Won"der\, n. [OE. wonder, wunder, AS. wundor; akin to D.
      wonder, OS. wundar, OHG. wuntar, G. wunder, Icel. undr, Sw. &
      Dan. under, and perhaps to Gr. [?] to gaze at.]
      1. That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the
            presentation to the sight or mind of something new,
            unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not well
            understood; surprise; astonishment; admiration; amazement.
  
                     They were filled with wonder and amazement at that
                     which had happened unto him.               --Acts iii.
                                                                              10.
  
                     Wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.
                                                                              --Johnson.
  
      Note: Wonder expresses less than astonishment, and much less
               than amazement. It differs from admiration, as now
               used, in not being necessarily accompanied with love,
               esteem, or approbation.
  
      2. A cause of wonder; that which excites surprise; a strange
            thing; a prodigy; a miracle. [bd] Babylon, the wonder of
            all tongues.[b8] --Milton.
  
                     To try things oft, and never to give over, doth
                     wonders.                                             --Bacon.
  
                     I am as a wonder unto many.               --Ps. lxxi. 7.
  
      {Seven wonders of the world}. See in the Dictionary of Noted
            Names in Fiction.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   World \World\, n. [OE. world, werld, weorld, weoreld, AS.
      weorold, worold; akin to OS. werold, D. wereld, OHG. weralt,
      worolt, werolt, werlt, G. welt, Icel. ver[94]ld, Sw. verld,
      Dan. verden; properly, the age of man, lifetime, humanity;
      AS. wer a man + a word akin to E. old; cf. AS. yld lifetime,
      age, ylde men, humanity. Cf. {Werewolf}, {Old}.]
      1. The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the
            system of created things; existent creation; the universe.
  
                     The invisible things of him from the creation of the
                     world are clearly seen.                     --Rom. 1. 20.
  
                     With desire to know, What nearer might concern him,
                     how this world Of heaven and earth conspicuous first
                     began.                                                --Milton.
  
      2. Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as
            inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with
            human interests; as, a plurality of worlds. [bd]Lord of
            the worlds above.[b8] --I. Watts.
  
                     Amongst innumerable stars, that shone Star distant,
                     but high-hand seemed other worlds.      --Milton.
  
                     There may be other worlds, where the inhabitants
                     have never violated their allegiance to their
                     almighty Sovereign.                           --W. B.
                                                                              Sprague.
  
      3. The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns; the
            sum of human affairs and interests.
  
                     That forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought
                     death into the world, and all our woe. --Milton.
  
      4. In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its
            concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any
            one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human
            affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given
            point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and
            action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious
            world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future
            world; the heathen world.
  
                     One of the greatest in the Christian world Shall be
                     my surety.                                          --Shak.
  
                     Murmuring that now they must be put to make war
                     beyond the world's end -- for so they counted
                     Britain.                                             --Milton.
  
      5. The customs, practices, and interests of men; general
            affairs of life; human society; public affairs and
            occupations; as, a knowledge of the world.
  
                     Happy is she that from the world retires. --Waller.
  
                     If knowledge of the world makes man perfidious, May
                     Juba ever live in ignorance.               --Addison.
  
      6. Individual experience of, or concern with, life; course of
            life; sum of the affairs which affect the individual; as,
            to begin the world with no property; to lose all, and
            begin the world anew.
  
      7. The inhabitants of the earth; the human race; people in
            general; the public; mankind.
  
                     Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to
                     any purpose that the world can say against it.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     Tell me, wench, how will the world repute me For
                     undertaking so unstaid a journey?      --Shak.
  
      8. The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven;
            concerns of this life as distinguished from those of the
            life to come; the present existence and its interests;
            hence, secular affairs; engrossment or absorption in the
            affairs of this life; worldly corruption; the ungodly or
            wicked part of mankind.
  
                     I pray not for the world, but for them which thou
                     hast given me; for they are thine.      --John xvii.
                                                                              9.
  
                     Love not the world, neither the things that are in
                     the world. If any man love the world, the love of
                     the Father is not in him. For all that is in the
                     world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the
                     eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father,
                     but is of the world.                           --1 John ii.
                                                                              15, 16.
  
      9. As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity;
            a large number. [bd]A world of men.[b8] --Chapman. [bd]A
            world of blossoms for the bee.[b8] --Bryant.
  
                     Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company. --Shak.
  
                     A world of woes dispatched in little space.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      {All . . . in the world}, all that exists; all that is
            possible; as, all the precaution in the world would not
            save him.
  
      {A world to see}, a wonder to see; something admirable or
            surprising to see. [Obs.]
  
                     O, you are novices; 't is a world to see How tame,
                     when men and women are alone, A meacock wretch can
                     make the curstest shrew.                     --Shak.
  
      {For all the world}.
            (a) Precisely; exactly.
            (b) For any consideration.
  
      {Seven wonders of the world}. See in the Dictionary of Noted
            Names in Fiction.
  
      {To go to the world}, to be married. [Obs.] [bd]Thus goes
            every one to the world but I . . .; I may sit in a corner
            and cry heighho for a husband![b8] --Shak.
  
      {World's end}, the end, or most distant part, of the world;
            the remotest regions.
  
      {World without end}, eternally; forever; everlastingly; as if
            in a state of existence having no end.
  
                     Throughout all ages, world without end. --Eph. iii.
                                                                              21.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Seven \Sev"en\, a. [OE. seven, seoven, seofen, AS. seofon,
      seofan, seofen; akin to D. zeven, OS., Goth., & OHG. sibun,
      G. sieben, Icel. sjau, sj[94], Sw. sju, Dan. syv, Lith.
      septyni, Russ. seme, W. saith, Gael. seachd, Ir. seacht, L.
      septem, Gr. [?][?][?], Skr. saptan. [root]305. Cf.
      {Hebdomad}, {Heptagon}, {September}.]
      One more than six; six and one added; as, seven days make one
      week.
  
      {Seven sciences}. See the Note under {Science}, n., 4.
  
      {Seven stars} (Astron.), the Pleiades.
  
      {Seven wonders of the world}. See under {Wonders}.
  
      {Seven-year apple} (Bot.), a rubiaceous shrub ({Genipa
            clusiifolia}) growing in the West Indies; also, its edible
            fruit.
  
      {Seven-year vine} (Bot.), a tropical climbing plant
            ({Ipom[oe]a tuberosa}) related to the morning-glory.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      3. A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a
            ship) used to hold incense. [Obs.] --Tyndale.
  
      {Armed ship}, a private ship taken into the service of the
            government in time of war, and armed and equipped like a
            ship of war. [Eng.] --Brande & C.
  
      {General ship}. See under {General}.
  
      {Ship biscuit}, hard biscuit prepared for use on shipboard;
            -- called also {ship bread}. See {Hardtack}.
  
      {Ship boy}, a boy who serves in a ship. [bd]Seal up the ship
            boy's eyes.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {Ship breaker}, one who breaks up vessels when unfit for
            further use.
  
      {Ship broker}, a mercantile agent employed in buying and
            selling ships, procuring cargoes, etc., and generally in
            transacting the business of a ship or ships when in port.
           
  
      {Ship canal}, a canal suitable for the passage of seagoing
            vessels.
  
      {Ship carpenter}, a carpenter who works at shipbuilding; a
            shipwright.
  
      {Ship chandler}, one who deals in cordage, canvas, and other,
            furniture of vessels.
  
      {Ship chandlery}, the commodities in which a ship chandler
            deals; also, the business of a ship chandler.
  
      {Ship fever} (Med.), a form of typhus fever; -- called also
            {putrid, jail, [or] hospital fever}.
  
      {Ship joiner}, a joiner who works upon ships.
  
      {Ship letter}, a letter conveyed by a ship not a mail packet.
           
  
      {Ship money} (Eng. Hist.), an imposition formerly charged on
            the ports, towns, cities, boroughs, and counties, of
            England, for providing and furnishing certain ships for
            the king's service. The attempt made by Charles I. to
            revive and enforce this tax was resisted by John Hampden,
            and was one of the causes which led to the death of
            Charles. It was finally abolished.
  
      {Ship of the line}. See under {Line}.
  
      {Ship pendulum}, a pendulum hung amidships to show the extent
            of the rolling and pitching of a vessel.
  
      {Ship railway}.
            (a) An inclined railway with a cradelike car, by means of
                  which a ship may be drawn out of water, as for
                  repairs.
            (b) A railway arranged for the transportation of vessels
                  overland between two water courses or harbors.
  
      {Ship's company}, the crew of a ship or other vessel.
  
      {Ship's days}, the days allowed a vessel for loading or
            unloading.
  
      {Ship's husband}. See under {Husband}.
  
      {Ship's papers} (Mar. Law), papers with which a vessel is
            required by law to be provided, and the production of
            which may be required on certain occasions. Among these
            papers are the register, passport or sea letter, charter
            party, bills of lading, invoice, log book, muster roll,
            bill of health, etc. --Bouvier. --Kent.
  
      {To make ship}, to embark in a ship or other vessel.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shipman \Ship"man\, n.; pl. {Shipmen}.
      A seaman, or sailor. [Obs. or Poetic] --Chaucer. R. Browning.
  
               About midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near
               to some country.                                    --Acts xxvii.
                                                                              27.
  
      {Shipman's card}, the mariner's compass. [Obs.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shipman \Ship"man\, n.; pl. {Shipmen}.
      A seaman, or sailor. [Obs. or Poetic] --Chaucer. R. Browning.
  
               About midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near
               to some country.                                    --Acts xxvii.
                                                                              27.
  
      {Shipman's card}, the mariner's compass. [Obs.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shipman \Ship"man\, n.; pl. {Shipmen}.
      A seaman, or sailor. [Obs. or Poetic] --Chaucer. R. Browning.
  
               About midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near
               to some country.                                    --Acts xxvii.
                                                                              27.
  
      {Shipman's card}, the mariner's compass. [Obs.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shipment \Ship"ment\, n.
      1. The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the
            shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat
            from the West.
  
      2. That which is shipped.
  
                     The question is, whether the share of M. in the
                     shipment is exempted from condemnation by reason of
                     his neutral domicle.                           --Story.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shoe \Shoe\, n.; pl. {Shoes}, formerly {Shoon}, now provincial.
      [OE. sho, scho, AS. sc[?]h, sce[a2]h; akin to OFries. sk[?],
      OS. sk[?]h, D. schoe, schoen, G. schuh, OHG. scuoh, Icel.
      sk[?]r, Dan. & Sw. sko, Goth. sk[?]hs; of unknown origin.]
      1. A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather,
            having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top.
            It differs from a boot on not extending so far up the leg.
  
                     Your hose should be ungartered, . . . yourshoe
                     untied.                                             --Shak.
  
                     Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon. --Shak.
  
      2. Anything resembling a shoe in form, position, or use.
            Specifically:
            (a) A plate or rim of iron nailed to the hoof of an animal
                  to defend it from injury.
            (b) A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened
                  to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any
                  vehicle which slides on the snow.
            (c) A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under
                  the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in
                  going down a hill.
            (d) The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon
                  the wheel to retard its motion.
            (e) (Arch.) A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at
                  the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves
                  gutter, so as to throw the water off from the
                  building.
            (f) (Milling.) The trough or spout for conveying the grain
                  from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
            (g) An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
            (h) An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut
                  or rafter.
            (i) An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
            (j) (Mach.) A plate, or notched piece, interposed between
                  a moving part and the stationary part on which it
                  bears, to take the wear and afford means of
                  adjustment; -- called also {slipper}, and {gib}.
  
      Note: Shoe is often used adjectively, or in composition; as,
               shoe buckle, or shoe-buckle; shoe latchet, or
               shoe-latchet; shoe leathet, or shoe-leather; shoe
               string, shoe-string, or shoestring.
  
      {Shoe of an anchor}. (Naut.)
            (a) A small block of wood, convex on the back, with a hole
                  to receive the point of the anchor fluke, -- used to
                  prevent the anchor from tearing the planks of the
                  vessel when raised or lowered.
            (b) A broad, triangular piece of plank placed upon the
                  fluke to give it a better hold in soft ground.
  
      {Shoe block} (Naut.), a block with two sheaves, one above the
            other, and at right angles to each other.
  
      {Shoe bolt}, a bolt with a flaring head, for fastening shoes
            on sleigh runners.
  
      {Shoe pac}, a kind of moccasin. See {Pac}.
  
      {Shoe stone}, a sharpening stone used by shoemakers and other
            workers in leather.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shopman \Shop"man\, n.; pl. {Shopmen}.
      1. A shopkeeper; a retailer. --Dryden.
  
      2. One who serves in a shop; a salesman.
  
      3. One who works in a shop or a factory.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shopman \Shop"man\, n.; pl. {Shopmen}.
      1. A shopkeeper; a retailer. --Dryden.
  
      2. One who serves in a shop; a salesman.
  
      3. One who works in a shop or a factory.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shopwoman \Shop"wom`an\, n.; pl. {Shopwomen}.
      A woman employed in a shop.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shopwoman \Shop"wom`an\, n.; pl. {Shopwomen}.
      A woman employed in a shop.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Souvenance \Sou"ve*nance\, Sovenaunce \So"ve*naunce\, n. [F.
      souvenance.]
      Remembrance. [Obs.]
  
               Of his way he had no sovenance.               --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Souvenance \Sou"ve*nance\, Sovenaunce \So"ve*naunce\, n. [F.
      souvenance.]
      Remembrance. [Obs.]
  
               Of his way he had no sovenance.               --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Spaeman \Spae"man\, n.
      A prophet; a diviner. [Scot.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Span \Span\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spanned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Spanning}.] [AS. pannan; akin to D. & G. spannen, OHG.
      spannan, Sw. sp[84]nna, Dan. sp[91]nde, Icel. spenna, and
      perh. to Gr. [?] to draw, to drag, L. spatium space.
      [root]170. Cf. {Spin}, v. t., {Space}, {Spasm}.]
      1. 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.
  
      2. 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.
  
      3. To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Spawn \Spawn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spawned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Spawning}.] [OE. spanen, OF. espandre, properly, to shed,
      spread, L. expandere to spread out. See {Expand}.]
      1. To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.
  
      2. To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt.
  
                     One edition [of books] spawneth another. --Fuller.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Spininess \Spin"i*ness\, n.
      Quality of being spiny.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Spin \Spin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spun}(Archaic imp. {Span}); p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Spinning}.] [AS. spinnan; akin to D. & G.
      spinnen, Icel. & Sw. spinna, Dan. spinde, Goth. spinnan, and
      probably to E. span. [root]170. Cf. {Span}, v. t., {Spider}.]
      1. 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.
  
      2. 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.
  
      3. 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.
  
      4. To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to
            spin a top.
  
      5. 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.
  
      6. (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.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Spinning \Spin"ning\,
      a. & n. from {Spin}.
  
      {Spinning gland} (Zo[94]l.), one of the glands which form the
            material for spinning the silk of silkworms and other
            larv[91].
  
      {Spinning house}, formerly a common name for a house of
            correction in England, the women confined therein being
            employed in spinning.
  
      {Spinning jenny} (Mach.), an engine or machine for spinning
            wool or cotton, by means of a large number of spindles
            revolving simultaneously.
  
      {Spinning mite} (Zo[94]l.), the red spider.
  
      {Spinning wheel}, a machine for spinning yarn or thread, in
            which a wheel drives a single spindle, and is itself
            driven by the hand, or by the foot acting on a treadle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Spinning \Spin"ning\,
      a. & n. from {Spin}.
  
      {Spinning gland} (Zo[94]l.), one of the glands which form the
            material for spinning the silk of silkworms and other
            larv[91].
  
      {Spinning house}, formerly a common name for a house of
            correction in England, the women confined therein being
            employed in spinning.
  
      {Spinning jenny} (Mach.), an engine or machine for spinning
            wool or cotton, by means of a large number of spindles
            revolving simultaneously.
  
      {Spinning mite} (Zo[94]l.), the red spider.
  
      {Spinning wheel}, a machine for spinning yarn or thread, in
            which a wheel drives a single spindle, and is itself
            driven by the hand, or by the foot acting on a treadle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Spinning \Spin"ning\,
      a. & n. from {Spin}.
  
      {Spinning gland} (Zo[94]l.), one of the glands which form the
            material for spinning the silk of silkworms and other
            larv[91].
  
      {Spinning house}, formerly a common name for a house of
            correction in England, the women confined therein being
            employed in spinning.
  
      {Spinning jenny} (Mach.), an engine or machine for spinning
            wool or cotton, by means of a large number of spindles
            revolving simultaneously.
  
      {Spinning mite} (Zo[94]l.), the red spider.
  
      {Spinning wheel}, a machine for spinning yarn or thread, in
            which a wheel drives a single spindle, and is itself
            driven by the hand, or by the foot acting on a treadle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Spinning \Spin"ning\,
      a. & n. from {Spin}.
  
      {Spinning gland} (Zo[94]l.), one of the glands which form the
            material for spinning the silk of silkworms and other
            larv[91].
  
      {Spinning house}, formerly a common name for a house of
            correction in England, the women confined therein being
            employed in spinning.
  
      {Spinning jenny} (Mach.), an engine or machine for spinning
            wool or cotton, by means of a large number of spindles
            revolving simultaneously.
  
      {Spinning mite} (Zo[94]l.), the red spider.
  
      {Spinning wheel}, a machine for spinning yarn or thread, in
            which a wheel drives a single spindle, and is itself
            driven by the hand, or by the foot acting on a treadle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Spinning \Spin"ning\,
      a. & n. from {Spin}.
  
      {Spinning gland} (Zo[94]l.), one of the glands which form the
            material for spinning the silk of silkworms and other
            larv[91].
  
      {Spinning house}, formerly a common name for a house of
            correction in England, the women confined therein being
            employed in spinning.
  
      {Spinning jenny} (Mach.), an engine or machine for spinning
            wool or cotton, by means of a large number of spindles
            revolving simultaneously.
  
      {Spinning mite} (Zo[94]l.), the red spider.
  
      {Spinning wheel}, a machine for spinning yarn or thread, in
            which a wheel drives a single spindle, and is itself
            driven by the hand, or by the foot acting on a treadle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      3. A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede.
  
      4. A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form;
            a disk; an orb. --Milton.
  
      5. A turn revolution; rotation; compass.
  
                     According to the common vicissitude and wheel of
                     things, the proud and the insolent, after long
                     trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled
                     upon themselves.                                 --South.
  
                     [He] throws his steep flight in many an a[89]ry
                     wheel.                                                --Milton.
  
      {A wheel within a wheel}, [or] {Wheels within wheels}, a
            complication of circumstances, motives, etc.
  
      {Balance wheel}. See in the Vocab.
  
      {Bevel wheel}, {Brake wheel}, {Cam wheel}, {Fifth wheel},
      {Overshot wheel}, {Spinning wheel}, etc. See under {Bevel},
            {Brake}, etc.
  
      {Core wheel}. (Mach.)
            (a) A mortise gear.
            (b) A wheel having a rim perforated to receive wooden
                  cogs; the skeleton of a mortise gear.
  
      {Measuring wheel}, an odometer, or perambulator.
  
      {Wheel and axle} (Mech.), one of the elementary machines or
            mechanical powers, consisting of a wheel fixed to an axle,
            and used for raising great weights, by applying the power
            to the circumference of the wheel, and attaching the
            weight, by a rope or chain, to that of the axle. Called
            also {axis in peritrochio}, and {perpetual lever}, -- the
            principle of equilibrium involved being the same as in the
            lever, while its action is continuous. See {Mechanical
            powers}, under {Mechanical}.
  
      {Wheel animal}, or {Wheel animalcule} (Zo[94]l.), any one of
            numerous species of rotifers having a ciliated disk at the
            anterior end.
  
      {Wheel barometer}. (Physics) See under {Barometer}.
  
      {Wheel boat}, a boat with wheels, to be used either on water
            or upon inclined planes or railways.
  
      {Wheel bug} (Zo[94]l.), a large North American hemipterous
            insect ({Prionidus cristatus}) which sucks the blood of
            other insects. So named from the curious shape of the
            prothorax.
  
      {Wheel carriage}, a carriage moving on wheels.
  
      {Wheel chains}, or {Wheel ropes} (Naut.), the chains or ropes
            connecting the wheel and rudder.
  
      {Wheel cutter}, a machine for shaping the cogs of gear
            wheels; a gear cutter.
  
      {Wheel horse}, one of the horses nearest to the wheels, as
            opposed to a leader, or forward horse; -- called also
            {wheeler}.
  
      {Wheel lathe}, a lathe for turning railway-car wheels.
  
      {Wheel lock}.
            (a) A letter lock. See under {Letter}.
            (b) A kind of gunlock in which sparks were struck from a
                  flint, or piece of iron pyrites, by a revolving wheel.
            (c) A kind of brake a carriage.
  
      {Wheel ore} (Min.), a variety of bournonite so named from the
            shape of its twin crystals. See {Bournonite}.
  
      {Wheel pit} (Steam Engine), a pit in the ground, in which the
            lower part of the fly wheel runs.
  
      {Wheel plow}, or {Wheel plough}, a plow having one or two
            wheels attached, to render it more steady, and to regulate
            the depth of the furrow.
  
      {Wheel press}, a press by which railway-car wheels are forced
            on, or off, their axles.
  
      {Wheel race}, the place in which a water wheel is set.
  
      {Wheel rope} (Naut.), a tiller rope. See under {Tiller}.
  
      {Wheel stitch} (Needlework), a stitch resembling a spider's
            web, worked into the material, and not over an open space.
            --Caulfeild & S. (Dict. of Needlework).
  
      {Wheel tree} (Bot.), a tree ({Aspidosperma excelsum}) of
            Guiana, which has a trunk so curiously fluted that a
            transverse section resembles the hub and spokes of a
            coarsely made wheel. See {Paddlewood}.
  
      {Wheel urchin} (Zo[94]l.), any sea urchin of the genus
            {Rotula} having a round, flat shell.
  
      {Wheel window} (Arch.), a circular window having radiating
            mullions arranged like the spokes of a wheel. Cf. {Rose
            window}, under {Rose}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Spinning \Spin"ning\,
      a. & n. from {Spin}.
  
      {Spinning gland} (Zo[94]l.), one of the glands which form the
            material for spinning the silk of silkworms and other
            larv[91].
  
      {Spinning house}, formerly a common name for a house of
            correction in England, the women confined therein being
            employed in spinning.
  
      {Spinning jenny} (Mach.), an engine or machine for spinning
            wool or cotton, by means of a large number of spindles
            revolving simultaneously.
  
      {Spinning mite} (Zo[94]l.), the red spider.
  
      {Spinning wheel}, a machine for spinning yarn or thread, in
            which a wheel drives a single spindle, and is itself
            driven by the hand, or by the foot acting on a treadle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Spuminess \Spum"i*ness\, n.
      The quality or condition of being spumy; spumescence.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Spume \Spume\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Spumed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Spuming}.] [L. spumare.]
      To froth; to foam.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Spy \Spy\, n.; pl. {Spies}. [See {Spy}, v., and cf. {Espy}, n.]
      1. One who keeps a constant watch of the conduct of others.
            [bd]These wretched spies of wit.[b8] --Dryden.
  
      2. (Mil.) A person sent secretly into an enemy's camp,
            territory, or fortifications, to inspect his works,
            ascertain his strength, movements, or designs, and to
            communicate such intelligence to the proper officer.
  
      {Spy money}, money paid to a spy; the reward for private or
            secret intelligence regarding the enemy.
  
      {Spy Wednesday} (Eccl.), the Wednesday immediately preceding
            the festival of Easter; -- so called in allusion to the
            betrayal of Christ by Judas Iscariot.
  
      Syn: See {Emissary}, and {Scout}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Submammary \Sub*mam"ma*ry\, a.
      Situated under the mamm[91]; as, submammary inflammation.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Submentum \Sub*men"tum\, n.; pl. {Submenta}. [NL. See {Sub-},
      and {Mentum}.] (Zo[94]l.)
      The basal part of the labium of insects. It bears the mentum.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Submental \Sub*men"tal\, a. (Anat.)
      Situated under the chin; as, the submental artery.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Submentum \Sub*men"tum\, n.; pl. {Submenta}. [NL. See {Sub-},
      and {Mentum}.] (Zo[94]l.)
      The basal part of the labium of insects. It bears the mentum.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Subminister \Sub*min"is*ter\, v. t. [L. subministrare,
      subministratum. See {Sub-}, and {Ministre}, v. t.]
      To supply; to afford. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Subminister \Sub*min"is*ter\, v. i.
      To be subservient; to be useful. [Obs.] [bd]Our passions . .
      . subminister to the best and worst purposes.[b8]
      --L'EStrange.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Subministrant \Sub*min"is*trant\, a. [L. subministrans, p. pr.]
      Subordinate; subservient. [Obs.] --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Subministrate \Sub*min"is*trate\, v. t. [See {Subminister}.]
      To supply; to afford; to subminister. [Obs.] --Harvey.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Subministration \Sub*min`is*tra"tion\, n. [L. subministratio.]
      The act of subministering. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Submonish \Sub*mon"ish\, v. t. [L. submonere. See {Summon}, and
      {-ish}.]
      To suggest; to prompt. [R.] [bd]The submonishing inclinations
      of my senses.[b8] --T. Granger.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Submonition \Sub`mo*ni"tion\, n. [LL. submonitio.]
      Suggestion; prompting. [R.] --T. Granger.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Subvene \Sub*vene"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Subvened}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Subvening}.] [Pref. sub- + L. venire to come. See
      {Subvention}.]
      To come under, as a support or stay; to happen.
  
               A future state must needs subvene to prevent the whole
               edifice from falling into ruin.               --Bp.
                                                                              Warburton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Supine \Su*pine"\, a. [L. supinus, akin to sub under, super
      above. Cf. {Sub-}, {Super-}.]
      1. Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to
            prone.
  
      2. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun;
            sloping; inclined.
  
                     If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills
                     supine.                                             --Dryden.
  
      3. Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.
  
                     He became pusillanimous and supine, and openly
                     exposed to any temptation.                  --Woodward.
  
      Syn: Negligent; heedless; indolent; thoughtless; inattentive;
               listless; careless; drowsy. -- {Su*pine"ly}, adv. --
               {Su*pine"ness}, n.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sabana Eneas, PR (comunidad, FIPS 73372)
      Location: 18.08414 N, 67.08538 W
      Population (1990): 1817 (691 housing units)
      Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Shipman, IL (town, FIPS 69563)
      Location: 39.12079 N, 90.04520 W
      Population (1990): 624 (247 housing units)
      Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   spamming
  
      {spam}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   spanning tree algorithm
  
      An IEEE 802.1 standard under consideration which will provide
      distributed routing over multiple LANs connected by bridges.
  
  
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