SPage 629
- English Word Speedwell Definition Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off.
- English Word Speedy Definition Not dilatory or slow; quick; swift; nimble; hasty; rapid in motion or performance; as, a speedy flight; on speedy foot.
- English Word Speer Definition A sphere.
- English Word Speer Definition To ask.
- English Word Speet Definition To stab.
- English Word Speight Definition A woodpecker; -- called also specht, spekt, spight.
- English Word Speir Definition To ask. See Spere.
- English Word Speiskobalt Definition Smaltite.
- English Word Speiss Definition A regulus consisting essentially of nickel, obtained as a residue in fusing cobalt and nickel ores with silica and sodium carbonate to make smalt.
- English Word Spekboom Definition The purslane tree of South Africa, -- said to be the favorite food of elephants.
- English Word Speke Definition To speak.
- English Word Spekehouse Definition The parlor or reception room of a convent.
- English Word Speking Definition The act of uttering words.
- English Word Speking Definition Public declamation; oratory.
- English Word Spelding Definition A haddock or other small fish split open and dried in the sun; -- called also speldron.
- English Word Spelicans Definition See Spilikin.
- English Word Spelk Definition A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter.
- English Word Spell Definition A spelk, or splinter.
- English Word Spell Definition To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.
- English Word Spell Definition The relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spell at the pumps; a spell at the masthead.