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- English Word Spiked Definition of Spike
- English Word Spiked Definition Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes.
- English Word Spikefish Definition See Sailfish (a)
- English Word Spikelet Definition A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of Quaking grass.
- English Word Spikenard Definition An aromatic plant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for the hair is still prepared in India.
- English Word Spikenard Definition A fragrant essential oil, as that from the Nardostachys Jatamansi.
- English Word Spiketail Definition The pintail duck.
- English Word Spiking Definition of Spike
- English Word Spiky Definition Like a spike; spikelike.
- English Word Spiky Definition Having a sharp point, or sharp points; furnished or armed with spikes.
- English Word Spile Definition A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask.
- English Word Spile Definition A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple.
- English Word Spile Definition A large stake driven into the ground as a support for some superstructure; a pile.
- English Word Spile Definition To supply with a spile or a spigot; to make a small vent in, as a cask.
- English Word Spilikin Definition One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins
- English Word spilikins Definition of Spilikin ), a game played with such pieces; pushpin.
- English Word Spill Definition A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
- English Word Spill Definition A slender piece of anything.
- English Word Spill Definition A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
- English Word Spill Definition A metallic rod or pin.