spiced 
spiced (spist), p. . [< ME. spiced ; < spice 1 + 
-i-if-.] 1. Impregnated with an aromatic odor; 
spicy to the smell ; spice-laden. 
In the spiced Indian air, by night, 
Full often hath she gossip'd by my side. 
Shak., \l. X. Ii., ii. 1. 124. 
.s/^'ft''/ carnations of rose and garnet crowned their bed 
in July and August. 
R. T. Cooke, Somebody's Neighbors, p. :;!. 
2f. Particular as to detail ; over-nice in matters 
of conscience or the like ; scrupulous ; squeam- 
ish. 
Ye sholde been al pucient and meke, 
And ban a sweete, spiced conscience, 
Sith ye so precbe of .lobes pacience. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 435. 
Take it ; 'tis yours ; 
Be not so spiced ; 'tis good gold, 
And goodness is no gall to the conscience. 
Fletcher, Mad Lover, iii. 1. 
spiceful (spis'ful), a. [< spice 1 + -ful.] Spice- 
laden; spicy; aromatic. 
The scorching sky 
Doth singe the sandy wilds of spice_M Barbary. 
Drayton, 1'olyolbion, v. 312. 
spice-mill (spls'mil), n. A small hand-mill for 
grinding spice, etc. : sometimes mounted orna- 
mentally for use on tables. 
spice-nut (spis'nut), . A gingerbread-nut. 
spice-platet (spis'plat), . A particular kind 
of plate or small dish formerly used for holding 
spice to be served with wine. 
Item, ij. spiceptates, weiyng both iilj xij. unces. 
Paston Letters, I. 474. 
The spice for this mixture [hypocras] was served often 
separately, in what they called a spice-plate. 
T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry (ed. 1871), III. 277, note. 
spicer (spi'ser), n. [< ME. spicer, spycer, spy- 
cere, spysere, < OF. espicier, F. epicier = Pr. es- 
pessier = Sp. especiero = Pg. especieiro, < ML. 
speciarius, a dealer in spices or groceries. < 
LL. species, spice : see spice 1 , n.] If. A dealer 
in spices, in the widest sense; a grocer; an 
apothecary. 
Spiceres spoke with hym to spien here ware, 
For he couth of here craft and knewe many gommes. 
Piers Plowman (B), ii. 225. 
2. One who seasons with spice. 
spicery (spi'ser-i), n. [< ME. spicerye, spieerie 
= D. speccrij = G. spezerei = Sw. Dan. speceri, 
< OF. spieerie, espicerie, F. epicerie = Pr. Pg. 
especiaria = Sp. especieria = It. spe:ieria, < ML. 
speciaria, spices, < LL. species, spice : see spice 1 , 
n.] 1. Spices collectively. 
Ne how the fyr was couched first with stree [straw], . . . 
And thanne with greene woode and spieerie. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 2077. 
And eke the fayrest Alma mett him there, 
With balme, and wine, and costly spicery, 
To comfort him in his infirmity. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. xi. 49. 
2f. A spicy substance; something used as a 
spice. 
For (ahlas my goode Lorde), were not the cordial of these 
two pretious Spiceries, the corrosyue of care would quicke- 
ly confounde me. 
(iascoiyne, Steele Glas (ed. Arber), Ep. Ded., p. 43. 
3. A repository of spices ; a grocery or buttery ; 
a store of kitchen supplies in general. 
Furst speke with the pantere or offlcere of the spicery, 
For frutes a-fore mete to etc them fastyngely. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 162. 
He had in the hall-kitchen ... a clerk of his spicery. 
G. Cavendish, Cardinal Wolsey, I. 34. 
4. A spicy quality or effect ; an aromatic efflu- 
ence; spiciness. 
My taste by her sweet lips drawn with delight, 
My smelling won with her breath's spicery. 
Drayton, Idea, xxix., To the Senses. 
The affluence of his [Emerson's] illustrations diffuses 
a flavor of oriental spicery over his pages. 
G . Ripley, in Frothingham, p. 266. 
spice-shop (spis'shop), . [< ME. spice schope; 
< spice + shop.] A shop for the sale of aromatic 
substances; formerly, a grocery or an apothe- 
cary's shop. 
A Spycere schoppe (a Spice schope . . .\ apotheca vel 
ipotheca. Cath. Ang., p. 355. 
spice-tree (spis'tre), n. An evergreen tree, 
Cmbellularia California, of the Pacific United 
States, variously known as mountain-laurel, 
California laurel, olice, or bay-tree, and cajeput. 
Northward it grows from 70 to 90 feet high, and affords a 
hard strong wood susceptible of a beautiful polish ; this 
is used for some ship building purposes, and is the finest 
cabinet-wood of its region. The leaves are exceedingly 
acrid, exhaling, when bruised, a pungent effluvium which 
spicewood (spis'wud), . Same as gpice-biish. 
spiciferous (spl-sif'e-rus), a. [< L. spicifer, 
ear-bearing, < spica, a spike, ear, + fcrre = E. 
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bear 1 .] 1. In bot., bearing or producing spikes : 
spicate; eared. 2. In ornitli., spurred; hav- 
ing spurs or ealcars, as a fowl. 
spiciform (spi'si-f6rm), a. [< L. spica, a point, 
spike, ear, 4- forma, form.] Having the form 
of a spica or spike. 
spicily (spi'si-li), arlr. In a spicy manner; pun- 
ifcntly; with a spicy flavor. 
spiciness (spi'si-nes), ii. The quality of being 
ni;-y, piquant, or spicy, in any sense. 
Delighted with the spiciness of tiifs beautiful young 
woman. The Century, XXVI. 370. 
spick 1 !, n. [An obs. or dial, form of spike 1 ; cf. 
pick 1 as related to pike 1 .'] A spike; a tenter. 
florio, 
spick- (spik), ii. [Origin obscure.] A titmouse. 
Blue spick, the blue titmouse, 1'ana ccerideus. 
Spick 3 (npik), n. See spick-and-span-new. 
spick-and-span (spik'and-span'), a. [Short- 
ened from spick-and-xpan-new.] Same as spick- 
and-span-new. 
From our poetic store-house we produce 
A couple [of similes] spick and span, for present use. 
Garrick, quoted in W. Cooke's Memoirs of S. Foote, 1. 107. 
The Dutcli Boer will not endure over him ... a spick- 
and-span Dutch Africander from the Cape Colony. 
Trollope, South Africa, II. vi. 
Beside my hotel rase a big spick and-svan church. 
H. James, Jr., Little Tour, p. 178. 
spick-and-span-new (spik'and-span'nu'), a. 
[Also spick-span-new; lit. 'new as a spike and 
chip': anemphaticformofspa-ne;: seespike 1 , 
spoon 1 , new, and cf. span-new, spick-span-new. 
Cf . also the equiv. D. spik-splinter-nieuw, ' spick- 
spliuter-new,' Dan. splinter-ny, Sw. splitter-ny, 
'splinter-new,' Sw. dial, till splint och span ny, 
'splint-and-span-new,' G. spalt-neu, 'splinter- 
new,' etc., E. brand-new, etc. A compound of 
four independent elements, like this, is very 
rare in E. ; the lit. meaning of the nouns spick 
and span is not now recognized, but the words 
spick and span are taken together adverbially, 
qualifying new, with which they form a com- 
pound. By omission of new, the phrase spick- 
and-span is sometimes used with an attribu- 
tive force.] New and fresh ; span-new ; brand- 
new. 
'Xis a fashion of the newest edition, spick and span new, 
without example. Ford, Lover's Melancholy, ii. 1. 
Among other Things, Black-Friars will entertain you 
with a Play spick and span new, and the Cockpit with an- 
other. Bowell, Letters, L iv. 2. 
spickett (spik'et),w. An obsolete form of spigot. 
spicknel, spignel (spik'nel, spig'nel), n. [Ear- 
ly mod. E. also spicknell, spignell, speknel, spike- 
nel; said to be a corruption of spike-nail, and 
to be so called in allusion to the shape of its 
long capillary leaves.] The baldmoney, Mettm 
athamanticum ; also, any plant of the related 
genus Athamanta, which has similar graceful 
finely dissected foliage. 
spick-span-new (spik'spau-nu'), a. Same as 
spick-and-span-new. 
Look at the cloaths on 'er back, thebbe ammost spick-span- 
new. Tennyson, Northern Cobbler. 
spicose (spi'bos), a. [< NL. spicosus : see spi- 
cous.] In bot., same as spicous. 
spicosity (spi-kos'i-ti), . [< spicose + -ity.] 
In bot., the state or condition of being spicous 
or eared. 
spicous (spi'kus), a. [Also s]>icose ; < NL. spi- 
cosus, < L. spica, a spike, ear: see spike 1 .'] In 
bot., having spikes or ears ; spiked or eared like 
corn. 
spicula 1 (spik'u-la), .; pi. spiculx (-le). [NL.: 
see spicule.] 1. In bot., a diminutive or secon- 
dary spike; a spikelet. 2. A small splinter- 
like body; a spicule. 3. In zool., a spicule or 
spiculum. [Rare.] 
spicula 2 , . Plural of spiculum. 
spicular (spik'u-lar), a. [< spicule + -or 3 .] In 
zool. : (a) Having the form or character of a 
spicule; resembling a spicule ; dart-like; spicu- 
liform; spiculate. (b) Containing or composed 
of spicules; spiculous; spiculiferous or spicu- 
ligenous: as, a spicular integument; the spicu- 
lar skeleton of a sponge or radiolarian Spicu- 
lar notation, a notation for logic, invented by Augustus 
De Morgan (though the name was given by Sir William 
Hamilton), in which great use is made of marks of paren- 
thesis. The significations of the principal signs are as 
follows : 
X))Y AllXsareYs. 
X).(Y NoXsare Ys. 
X(.)Y Everything is either X or Y. 
X((Y Some Xs compose all the Ys. 
X ( . ( Y Some Xs are not Ys. 
X()Y Some Xs are Ys. 
X )( Y Some things are neither X nor Y. 
X ) . ) Y None of the Xs are certain of the Ys. 
spicy 
spiculate (spik'u-lat). t, t.- pn-t. iiml pp. 
lutul, ppr. .i/in'iilatiiiii. [< L. xpiriiliitiis. pp. of 
sjiicularc, sharpen, < .^lii-nliiiii, dim. <ii' .^/m-w. 
a point: see xpike 1 .] To sharpen to a point. 
Extend a rail of elm, securely arm'd 
With xpicxliitt'd puling. 
W. Mason, English Gard.-n, ii. 
spiculate (spik'u-lat), a. [< L. x)>i<-i<l<iti<*, \<\>. : 
see the verb.] 1. In :<wl., sharp-pointed; sjji- 
cate. 2. Covered with or divided into fine 
points. Specifically, in bot. : (a) Covered with pointed 
fleshy appendages, as a surface, (b) Noting a spike com- 
posed of several epikelets crowded tog* iln t 
spicule (spik'ul), n. [< L. nj>i< //</, NL. also/H- 
ntla, f., a little sharp point, dim. of .-/<; /. *]>i<-u. 
a point, spike: see sjiikcl.] 1. A fine-pointed 
body resembling a needle : as, ice-spjcttfos. 2. 
In bot. : (a) A spikelet. (ft) One of the small 
projections or points on the basidia of hymeno- 
mycetous fungi which bear the spores. There 
are usually four to each basidium. Seesterigma. 
3. In zool., a hard, sharp body like a liUle 
spike, straight or curved, rod-like, or branched, 
or diversiform ; a spiculum ; a sclere : variously 
applied, without special reference to size or 
shape. Specifically (a) One of the skeletal elements, 
scleres, or spicula of the protozoans, as radiolarians, either 
Sfharotoum punctatitm. 
A, natural size ; f!, two of the sacs with coloied vesicles and spicules 
which lie in the investing protoplasm, magnified. 
calcareous or silicious. coherent or detached. See cuts 
under Radiolaria and Sphteroznum. (b) One of the spines 
of echinoderms, sometimes of utt-.tt si?e, and biisiling 
over the surface of the test, as in sea-urchins or small, 
and embedded in the integument, as in holothurians ; 
sometimes of singular shape, like wheels, anchors, etc. 
?ee cuts under ancorai, Jichinometra, Echinus, and fpa- 
tanffus. (c) In sponges, a spiculum ; one of the hard cal- 
careous or silicious bodies, of whatever shape, which enter 
into the composition of the skeleton ; a mineral sclere : a 
sponge-spicule (which see). Some pponges mostly consist 
of spicules, as that figured under Euplectella. (d) In some 
worms and molluskB, a dart-like oigau constituting a kind 
of penis; a spiculum (which see). () In entom. : (1) A 
minute spine or spinous process. (2) The piercing ovi- 
positor of any insect; especially, the lancet like portion 
of the sting of a parasitic hymenopter. See Spicvlifera. 
spicule-sheath (spik'ul-bheth), n. A thin layer 
of organic substance forming the sheath or in- 
vestment of a sponge-spicule. 
Spiculifera (spik-u-lif 'e-ra), n. pi. [NL. : see 
spiculiferotis.] In Westwood's classification of 
insects, a division ofHymenoptera, in which the 
abdomen is, in the female, armed with a long 
pluri valve ovipositor, and thelarvte are footless. 
It contains the ichneumons (including braconids), the 
evaniids, the proctotrypids, the chalcids. and the cynipids 
or gall-flies. It thus corresponds to the Pvpivcra oi la- 
treille, except in excluding the Chrysidida as TvbvHfera. 
spiculiferous (spik-u-lif 'e-nis), a. [< L. spic- 
luni, a spicule, + fcrre = E. 6eari.] In zool., 
having a spiculum or spicula ; spicular or spicu- 
lous; specifically, in entom., having a piercing 
ovipositor; of or pertaining to the Spiculifera. 
Also spiculigerous. 
spicullform (spik'u-li-form), a. [< L. spiculum, 
a spicule, + forma, form.] In bot. and zool., 
having the form of a spicule ; being of the na- 
ture of a spicule. 
spiculigenous (spik-u-lij'e-nus), a. [< L. spicu- 
lum, a spicule, + -ijenus, producing: see -ge- 
nos.] Producing spicules; giving origin to 
spicules; spiculiferous: as, the spiculigenous 
tissue of a sponge. 
spiculigerous (spik-u-lij'e-rus), a. [<L spieu- 
lum, a spicule, + gerere, carry.] Same as sjiieu- 
liferoim. 
spiculose (spik'u-los), a. [< NL. gpiculosus: 
see spiculous.'] Same as spiculous. 
spiculous (spik'u-lus), a. [Also spiculose; < 
NL. spiculosus, <! L. spiculum, a spicule: see 
spicule."] Haying spicules; spinulose; spicu- 
lose or spiculiferous. 
spiculum (spik'u-lum), n. ; pi. spicula (-la). 
[NL., < L. spiculum, a little sharp point: see 
spicule.'] In zool., a spicula or spicule. Spe- 
cifically (a) In some worms, a chitinous rod developed 
in the cloaca as a copulatory organ ; a kind of penis. (6) 
In somemollusks. as snails, the lore-dart, a kino of penis, 
more fully called spicvlum amoris. (c) In insects, the 
piercing non-poisonous ovipositor of the Spiculiffra. 
spicy (spi'si), a. [< sptcel + -0 1 .] 1. Produ- 
cing spice; abounding with spices. 
As ... off at sea north-east winds blow 
Sabeean odours from the spicy shore 
Of Araby the bless'd. Hilton, P. L., iv. 162. 
