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- English Word Spontaneous Definition Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion.
- English Word Spontaneous Definition Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or natural law, without external force; as, spontaneous motion; spontaneous growth.
- English Word Spontaneous Definition Produced without being planted, or without human labor; as, a spontaneous growth of wood.
- English Word Spontoon Definition A kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers.
- English Word Spook Definition A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin.
- English Word Spook Definition The chimaera.
- English Word Spool Definition A piece of cane or red with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon.
- English Word Spool Definition To wind on a spool or spools.
- English Word Spooled Definition of Spool
- English Word Spooler Definition One who, or that which, spools.
- English Word Spooling Definition of Spool
- English Word Spoom Definition To be driven steadily and swiftly, as before a strong wind; to be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a part of the sails spread; to scud under bare poles.
- English Word Spoon Definition See Spoom.
- English Word Spoon Definition An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.
- English Word Spoon Definition Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.
- English Word Spoon Definition Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney.
- English Word Spoon Definition To take up in, or as in, a spoon.
- English Word Spoon Definition To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love.
- English Word Spoon-billed Definition Having the bill expanded and spatulate at the end.
- English Word Spoon-meat Definition Food that is, or must be, taken with a spoon; liquid food.