SPage 645
- English Word Spiegel iron Definition A fusible white cast iron containing a large amount of carbon (from three and a half to six per cent) and some manganese. When the manganese reaches twenty-five per cent and upwards it has a granular structure, and constitutes the alloy ferro manganese, largely used in the manufacture of Bessemer steel. Called also specular pig iron, spiegel, and spiegeleisen.
- English Word Spiegeleisen Definition See Spiegel iron.
- English Word Spies Definition of Spy
- English Word Spight Definition Spite.
- English Word Spight Definition A woodpecker. See Speight.
- English Word Spignel Definition Same as Spickenel.
- English Word Spignet Definition An aromatic plant of America. See Spikenard.
- English Word Spigot Definition A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock.
- English Word Spigurnel Definition Formerly the title of the sealer of writs in chancery.
- English Word Spike Definition A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
- English Word Spike Definition Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
- English Word Spike Definition An ear of corn or grain.
- English Word Spike Definition A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
- English Word Spike Definition To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.
- English Word Spike Definition To set or furnish with spikes.
- English Word Spike Definition To fix on a spike.
- English Word Spike Definition To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it.
- English Word Spike Definition Spike lavender. See Lavender.
- English Word Spikebill Definition The hooded merganser.
- English Word Spikebill Definition The marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa).