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In wisdom I should ask your name; 
Bui since thy outside looks so fair and warlike, 
What safe and nicely I might well delay, 
By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn. Shakspeare. 
To treat with contempt.—Domestics will pay a more 
chearful service, when they find themselves not spurned, be¬ 
cause fortune has laid them at their master’s feet. Locke. 
To SPURN, v. n. To make contemptuous opposition; 
to make insolent resistance. 
A son to blunt the sword 
That guards the peace and safety of your person ; 
Nay more, to spurn at your most royal image. Shakspeare. 
SPURN, s. Kick; insolent and contemptuous treat¬ 
ment. 
The insolence of office, and the spurns 
That patient merit of the unworthy takes. Shakspeare. 
SPU'RNER, s. One who spurns. Unused. 
SPURNESS, the south cape of Sanday, one of the Orkney 
islands. Lat. 59. 3. N. long. 2. 35. W. 
SPU'RNEY, 5 . A plant. 
SPU'RRED, adj. Wearing spurs: as, .he was booted 
and spurred. 
SPU'RRER, s. One who uses spurs. 
SPU'RRIER, s. One who makes spurs. 
Gramercy, Lether-leg; get me the spurrier, 
An’thou hast fitted me. B.Jonson. 
SPUR-ROYAL, s. A gold coin, first coined in Edward 
the Fourth’s time: it was of fifteen shillings value in James 
the First’s time. It is sometimes written spur-rial or ryal .— 
Twenty spur-royals for that word. Beaum. and FI. —I 
have a paper with a spur-ryal in’t. B. Jonson. 
SPU'RRY, s. [spurrie, old Fr.] A plant 
SPURSTOW, a township of England, in Cheshire; 4 
miles south-by-east of Tarporley. 
To SPURT, v. n. To fly out with a quick stream.—If 
from a puncture of a lancet, the manner of the spurting out 
of the blood will shew it. Wiseman. 
SPU'RWAY, s. A horseway; a bridle-road; distinct 
from a road for carriages. 
SPUTA'TION, s. [ sputum , Lat.] The act of spitting.— 
A moist consumption receives its nomenclature from a moist 
sputation, or expectoration: a dry one is known by its dry 
cough. Harvey. 
SPU'TATIVE, adj. [sputum, Lat.] Spitting much; in¬ 
clined to spit.—I made a short retirement, with intention to 
have visited the city of Bath, and to see whether among all 
kind of affected persons, confluent thither, I could pick out 
any counsel to allay that sputative symptom, which yet re- 
maineth upon me from my obstructions of the spleen. 
Wolton. 
To SPU'TTER, v. n. [sputo, Lat ] To emit moisture in 
small flying drops. 
If a manly drop or two fall down, 
It scalds along my cheeks, like the green wood. 
That, sputtering in the flame, works outwards into tears. 
Dry den. 
To fly out in small particles with some noise. 
The nightly-virgin, while her wheel she plies. 
Foresees the storms impending in the skies, 
When sparkling lamps their sputtering light advance. 
And in the sockets oily bubbles dance. Dryden. 
To speak hastily and obscurely, as with the mouth full; to 
throw out the spittle by hasty speech. 
Though he sputter through a session, 
It never makes the least impression; 
Whate’er he speaks for madness goes. Swift.' 
To SPU'TTER, v. a. To throw out with noise and 
hesitation. 
Thou dost with lies the throne invade, 
Obtending heav’n for whate’er ills befall; 
And sputtering under specious names thy gall. Dryden. 
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SPU'TTER, s. Moisture thrown out in small drops. 
SPU'TTERER, s. One that sputters. 
SPY, s. [yspio, Welsh; espion, Fr.; spie, Dutch; spe¬ 
culator, Lat. It is observed by a German, that spy has 
been in all ages a word by which the eye, or office of the 
eye, has been expressed: thus the Arimaspians of old, fabled 
to have but one eye, were so called from ari, which, amdng 
the nations of Caucasus, still signifies one, and spi, which 
has been received from the old Asiatic languages for an 
eye, sight, or one that sees. Toddj One sent to watch 
the conduct or motions of others; one sent to gain intelli¬ 
gence in an enemy’s camp or country. 
Spies of the Volscians 
Held me in chace, that I was forc’d to wheel 
Three or four miles about. Shakspeare. 
To SPY, v. a. To see with painstaking: as, when a 
thing is distant or requires a close examination. 
My brother Guyomar, methinks, I spy : 
Haste in his steps, and wonder in his eye. Dryden. 
Let a lawyer tell he has spy'd some defect in an entail, 
how solicitous are they to repair that errour? Dec. of Chr. 
Piety. 
To SPY, v. n. To search narrowly. 
It is my nature's plague 
To spy into abuse; and oft my jealousy 
Shapes faults that are not. Shakspeare. 
SPY'BOAT, s. A boat sent out for intelligence. 
SPYDEBERG, a small town in the south of Norway, 
near Frederickshall. 
SPYNIE, or New Spynie, a parish of Scotland, in Moray¬ 
shire, about 4 miles long and 2 broad, stretching along the 
banks of the Lossie. Population 816. 
SPYNIE, Loch, a lake in the above parish, three miles 
long, and one broad, which appears to have been formerly a 
frith of the sea. 
SQUAB, adj. [Squab, Sueth. corpus molle et pingue. 
Serenius.] Fat; thick and stout; awkwardly bulky. 
The nappy ale goes round. 
Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice, 
Each health the youths began, Sim pledg’d it twice. 
Betterton. 
SQUAB, s. A kind of sofa or couch; a stuffed cushion. 
On her large squab you find her spread, 
Like a fat corpse upon a bed. Pope. 
SQUAB, adv. With a heavy sudden fall; plump and 
flat. A low word. —The eagle took the tortoise up into the 
air, and dropt him down, squab, upon a rock, that dashed 
him to pieces. L'Estrange. 
To SQUAB, v. n. To fall down plump or flat. 
SQUA'BBISH, adj. Flabbily; fleshy. — Diet renders 
them of a squabbish or lardy habit of body. Harvey. 
To SQUA'BBLE, v. n. [kwbla, Swedish.] To quarrel; 
to debate peevishly; to wrangle; to fight. A. low word .— 
Drunk? and speak parrot ? and squabble? swagger? oh, 
thou invincible spirit of wine! Shakspeare. 
SQUA'BBLE, s. A low brawl; a petty quarrel.—In po¬ 
pular factions, pragmatic fools commonly begiu the squab¬ 
ble, and crafty knaves reap the benefit. L'Estrange. 
SQUA'BBLER, s. A quarrelsome fellow; a brawler. 
SQUABPIE', 5. A pie made of many ingredients. 
Cornwal squab-pie, and Devon whjtepot brings, 
And Leicester beans and bacon, food of kings. King. 
SQUAD, s. [escouade, Fr.] A company of armed men: 
usually applied to thoke who are learning the military exer¬ 
cise. 
SQUA'DRON, s. [escadron,Fr.-, squadrone, Ita\. from 
quadratus, Lat.] A body of men drawn up square. 
Those half-rounding guards 
Just met, and closing stood in squadron joined. Milton. 
A part of an army ; a troop. , 
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