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many parts of Germany. The larva is brown; the head 
and legs are reddish; the back is marked with fasciculate 
white plumes. 
27. Sphinx Caffra.—Black; wings brown, with five red 
dots; the lower ones are red, edged with brown.—It is found 
in many parts of Africa. The head is black; feelers and 
orbits red; thorax black, with two red dots on each side; 
dots on the wings surrounded with a black ring. 
28. Sphinx cassandra.—Brown; abdomen with five blue 
spots on each side; tail, mouth, base of the thighs, and ab¬ 
domen, scarlet. 
29. Sphinx tibialis.—Upper wings brown, lower ones hya¬ 
line; hind-legs long and very hairy.—It inhabits Africa. 
30. Sphinx capys.—Black; upper wings tipt with white. 
—Inhabits Surinam. 
SPHONDYLOCOCCUS, so called, by Mitchell, from 
the whorled appearance of the berries, is the Linnsean Cal- 
licarpa. See that article. 
SPHONDYLUS, in Ichthyology, a name given by Pliny, 
and others of the old authors, to a peculiar species of the 
syngnathus. 
SPHRAGIDE, or Lemnian Earth, in Mineralogy, a name 
given by Werner to a substance nearly resembling fullers’- 
earth, found in the island of Lemnos. See Mineralosy. 
SPHRAGIS, the seal-stone, a name given by some au¬ 
thors to the single joints of the asteriae, when found loose, 
not joined into a column. 
Sphragis is also used by some of the old Greek natural¬ 
ists to express the spots on the back and sides of a panther. 
The skin of this creature is of a pale colour, and these spots 
are all dark and round, and look like so many regular im¬ 
pressions of a seal, whence the name sphragis. 
SPHYGMICA, an old term for that part of the judgment 
of a physician, which regards the differences of the 
or pulse. 
SPHYRiENA, in Ichthyology, a name by which some 
authors have called the sudis , the sea-pike. 
SPHPRiENA ALTERA, a name given by Appian, and 
some other of the old Greek writers, to the esox, or common 
pike. 
SPI'AL, s. [ espial , Fr.] A spy ; a scout; a watcher. 
Obsolete. 
For he by faithful spial was assured 
That Egypt’s king was forward on his way. Fairfax. 
Their trust towards them hath rather been as to good 
spials and good whisperers, than good magistrates and 
officers. Bacon. 
SPIAN, a river of Scotland, in Inverness-shire which rises 
from the western extremity of Loch Laggon, and after a rapid 
and precipitous course of 20 miles, joins the Lochy. 
SPICA, in Botany, a spike, is a mode of inflorescence, 
very general in the natural order of Orckidece, and frequent 
among many others tribes of plants. See Botany. 
SPICA BANDAGE, in Surgery, is a kind of bandage 
thus called from its intersections, which are supposed to 
resemble an ear of corn. 
SPICE, s. [ espices , Fr.] A vegetable production, 
fragrant to the smell and pungent to the palate; an aromatic 
substance used in sauces.—.Is not manhood, learning, 
gentleness, and virtue, the spice and salt that seasons a man ? 
Shakspeare. —Garlick, the northern spice, is in mighty 
request among the Indians. Temple. —A small quantity, as 
of spice to the thing seasoned.—It containeth singular 
relations, not without some spice or sprinkling of all 
learning. Brown. 
To SPICE, v. a. To season with spice; to mix with 
aromatic bodies. 
His mother was a votress of my order. 
And in the spiced Indian air by night 
Full often she hath gossip’d by my side. Shakspeare. 
To render nice; to season with scruples. 
Come near my spouse,—• 
Ye shulden be al patient and meke. 
And han a swete spiced conscience, Chaucer. 
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You have such a spic'd consideration. 
Such qualms upon your worship’s conscience! 
Beaum. and FI. 
SPICE-WOOD, in Botany, a species of Laurus ; which 
see. 
SPI'CER, s. One who deals in spice.—Names have 
been derived from occupations, as Salter and Spicer , 
Camden. 
SPI'CERY, s. [espiceries, Fr.] The commodity of 
spices. 
She in whose body 
The western treasure, eastern spicery, 
Europe and Africk, and the unknown rest. 
Were easily found. Dpnne. 
A repository of spices.—The spicery, the cellar, and its 
furniture, are too well known to be here insisted upon. 
Addison. 
SPICK AND SPAN. Span-new is originally used of 
cloth newly extended or dressed at the clothiers, and spick 
and span is newly extended on the spikes or tenters: it is 
however a low word. Johnson. 
While the honour thou hast got, 
Is spick and span new, piping hot. 
Strike her up bravely, Butler. 
I keep no antiquated stuff; 
But spick and span I have enough. Swift. 
SPI'CKNEL, s. [meum, Lat.] The herb maldmony or 
bearwort. 
SPI'COSITY, s. [spica , Lat.] The quality of being 
spiked like ears of corn; fulness of ears. Obsolete. 
To SPECULATE, v. a. [spiculo, Lat.] To make sharp 
at the point. 
Plant thy thick row of thorns, and, to defend 
Their infant shoots, beneath, on oaken stakes. 
Extend a rail of elm, securely arm’d 
With spiculated paling, in such sort 
As, round some citadel, the engineer 
Directs his sharp stoccade. Mason. 
SPICULUM, in Roman Antiquity, a kind of weapon 
which some will have to be the same with the hasta, or 
sparus. 
SPI'CY, adj. Producing spice; abounding with aro¬ 
matics. 
Off at sea north-east winds blow 
Sabrean odour, from the spicy shore 
Of Araby the blest: with such delay 
Well pleas’d they slack their course, and many a league 
Chear’d with the grateful smell old ocean smiles. Milton. 
Aromatic; having the qualities of spice. 
Under southern skies exalt their sails. 
Led by new stars, and borne by spicy gales ! Pope, 
SPI'DER, s. [Skinner thinks this word softened from 
spinder or spinner, from spin; Junius from entt^uv, Gr. 
to extend; for the spider extends his web. Dop, bopa. 
Sax., is a beetle, or properly an humble bee , or stingtess 
bee. May not spider be spy dor, the insect that watches 
the dor ? Dr. Johnson.'] The animal that spins a web 
for flies. 
The spider's web to watch we’ll stand. 
And when it takes the bee, 
We’ll help out of the tyrant’s hand 
The innocent to free. Drayton. 
SPI'DERCATCHER, s. A bird, SeePicus. 
SPEDERLIKE, adj. Resembling a spider in shape or 
quality. 
Spider-like, 
Out of his self-drawing web, he gives us note. Shakspeare. 
I can bend my body no farther than it is bent by nature. 
For this reason, when ladies drop a fan or glove, I am not 
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