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Like an English general will I die, 
And all the ocean make my spacious grave : 
Women and cowards on the land may lie : 
The sea’s a tomb that’s proper for the brave. Dry.den. 
SPA'CIOUSLY, adv. Extensively. 
SPA'CIOUSNESS, s. Roominess; wide extension.—The 
spaciousness of the house was such, that it had three gal¬ 
leries, each of them a mile long. Hakewill on Prov.— 
Here is visible an elegant taste of architecture, painting, and 
gardening, but more remarkable for the spaciousness of its 
prospect. Ashmole. 
SPADA (Lionello), was born at Bologna in 1576, in a 
very low condition of life; and when a boy he became the 
servant of the Caracci, and ground and prepared their co¬ 
lours. The constant opportunity he possessed, whilst with 
these great men, of seeing pictures, and hearing discussions 
on the principles of the art, roused a latent disposition to 
study and design, which his masters saw and encouraged ■ 
and at length they admitted him into their academy, where 
they had the gratification of seeing him become one of their 
most eminent disciples; though he never arrived at any very 
great degree of grandeur or purity of invention. His style 
is a compound of the Caracci and Caravaggio’s manners, 
and is wrought with great boldness. His principal produc¬ 
tions are. The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, in the refectory 
of S. Procolo at Bologna, and St. Dominic burning the 
forbidden Books, for the church of that saint, in the same 
city. This last is considered as his very greatest work. He 
died in the 46th year of his age, in 1622. 
SPADA, a cape of the island of Candia; 24 miles north* 
west of Canea. 
SPA'DDLE, s. [Diminutive of spade.] A little spade.— 
Others destroy moles with a spaddle, waiting in the morn¬ 
ings and evenings for them- Mortimer. 
SPADE, s. [jpab, Saxon ; spade, Icelandic and Dutch.] 
The instrument of digging.—Take the air of the earth new 
turned up, by digging with the spade, or standing by him 
that diggeth. Bacon. —Many learned men affirm, that some 
isthmes have been eat through by the sea, and others cut by 
the spade. Brown. 
His next advance was to the soldier’s trade. 
Where if he did not nimbly ply the spade, 
His surly officer ne’er fail’d to crack 
His knotty cudgel on his tougher back. Dry den. 
Here nature never difference made 
Between the sceptre and the spade. Swift. 
A deer three years old. Ainsworth. —A suit of cards. 
SPA'DEBONE, s. [named from the form.] The shoulder 
blade. 
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By th* shoulder of a ram from off the right side par’d. 
Which usually they boil, the spade-bone being bar’d. 
Drayton. 
SPADFCEOUS, ad;, [spadiceus, Lat.] Of a light red 
colour.—Of those five Scaliger beheld, though one was spa- 
dice ous, or of a light red, and two inclining to red, yet was 
there not any of this complexion among them. Brown. 
SPADICEOUS, or Spathaceous Plants, those the 
flowers of which are protruded or produced from a sort of 
scabbard, or sheath, which is burst open. There is a great 
number of flowers, which are of this sort, as the narcissus 
or daffodil and jonquil, the lily daffodil, the Guernsey lily, 
the asphodel lily, the sea daffodil, the different varieties 
of crocus, the meadow saffron, the common snow-drop, 
the leucoium, or greater snow-drop, the onion, the leek, 
the garlic, and some others. 
SPADI'LLE, s. [spadille , or espadille , Fr.] The ace of 
spades at the game of quadrille. 
SPADIX, in Botany, a flower stalk, whether simple or 
branched, included within a Spatha, or Sheath. 
SPADO, among the Romans, differed from an eunuch 
only in this, that the latter was deprived both of the penis 
and testes, but the spado of the testes only. 
SPAFFORD, a township of the United States, in Onon- 
dago county, New York, on the east side of Skeneatiles 
lake. 
SPAFFORD’S LAKE, a lake of the United States, in 
Chesterfield, New Hampshire; 2 miles long. 
SPAGGOT, a river of the United States, which rises in 
New Hampshire, and runs into the Merrimack, in Methuen. 
SPAGNOLETTO (II), the cognomen of a Spanish painter, 
a native of Xativa, in Valencia, whose real name was Josef 
Ribera. See Ribera. 
SPAGY'RIC, s. A chymist. 
SPAGY'RICAL, adj. [spagyricus , Lat.; spagirique, 
Fr., from the Gr. critaai, to extract, and ayeiyw, to collect ; 
not from spaher, Teut., a searcher, as Dr. Johnson would 
have it to be under the adjective spagyric, which he has 
noticed; where he says, Paracelsus coined the word, viz. 
spagyricus.] Chymical.—Paracelsus — brought to light in 
these parts of the world the use of hermetical, spagyrical, or 
chymical physic, as they term it. Hakewill. 
SPA'GYRIST, s. A chymist. 
SPA'HEE, or Spa'hi, s. [ espawhee , a horseman, Pers.J 
One of the Turkish cavalry.—He said, there were certain 
books in their language pawned to a great spahee of that 
city, [Damascus:] The spahee would not part with them 
under 200 dollars. Letters to Abp. Usher. 
SPAICHINGEN, a town of Germany, in Wirtemberg; 
8 miles south-east of Rothwell, and 51 south-south-west of 
Stutgard. Population 2000. 
SPAIN. 
SPAIN is a kingdom of Europe, situated between the 36th 
and 44th degrees of north latitude, and having its western ex¬ 
tremity about 9° west longitude from London. Its greatest 
length from west to east is about 600 miles. The precise 
western boundary is formed by the river Bidassoa, near the 
mouth of which is the isle of Pheasants. The last town in 
Spain is Irum, near the Bidassoa. The superficial contents 
of Spain have been estimated at about 148,000 square miles. 
It lies between the fifth climate on the south, and half-way be¬ 
tween the sixth and seventh on the north; the longest days 
are, therefore, 14J hours in the southern part, and 15£ in 
the northern. 
The first known division of Spain, into Hispania Citerior 
and Ulterior, took place under the Romans; but these were 
soon denominated Lusitania, Boetica, and Tarraconensis. 
Lusitania comprehended the eastern part, and extended as far 
as the Atlantic Ocean : its limits were marked on the north by 
the Duero, on the south by the Guadiana, and from one to 
the other by a straight line drawn from Simancas to Puente 
de l’Arzobispo, and from thence as far as the country of the 
people called Oretani, in which the town of Almagro at 
present stands. It included in its extent the towns of 
Avila, Salamanca, Coria, the territory of Plasencia, Trux- 
ill, Merida and Portugal, the kingdom of Leon, and part 
of Estremadura. 
Boetica was almost surrounded on two of its sides by the 
Guadiana, bounded on the south by the Mediterranean and 
the ocean, and terminated on the east by a line drawn from 
Murgis or Muxacra, a village near the ancient promontory 
of Charidemus, now called the Cape de Gatte, to the terri¬ 
tory of Castulo, (which was nearly in the same situation as 
the modern Cazlona,) and to the country of the Oretania. 
