SPage 692
- English Word Sprit Definition A small boom, pole, or spar, which crosses the sail of a boat diagonally from the mast to the upper aftmost corner, which it is used to extend and elevate.
- English Word Sprite Definition A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See Spright.
- English Word Sprite Definition An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
- English Word Sprite Definition The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
- English Word Spriteful Definition Alt. of Spritely
- English Word Spritefully Definition Alt. of Spritely
- English Word Spriteliness Definition Alt. of Spritely
- English Word Spritely Definition See Sprightful, Sprightfully, Sprightliness, Sprightly, etc.
- English Word Spritsail Definition A sail extended by a sprit.
- English Word Spritsail Definition A sail formerly hung under the bowsprit, from the spritsail yard.
- English Word Sprocket wheel Definition Same as Chain wheel.
- English Word Sprod Definition A salmon in its second year.
- English Word Sprong Definition imp. of Spring. Sprung.
- English Word Sprout Definition To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.
- English Word Sprout Definition To shoot into ramifications.
- English Word Sprout Definition To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed.
- English Word Sprout Definition To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.
- English Word Sprout Definition The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch.
- English Word Sprout Definition Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts.
- English Word Sprouted Definition of Sprout