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Show Spo'NpER. #. f. [/pondée, French; fpon-|. » T unguarded Duncan The man that hath not mufick in himfelf Nor is not mov'd with concord of fweet founds Is fit for treafons, ftratagems, and fpoils Shake/p we fin The foftnefs of thy fword, continued through th foil To be the only caufe of unrecover'd Jpoils Drayton Go and fpeed Havock, and [poi/, and ruin are my gain. Milton 5. Corruption ; caufe of corruption Company villainou company hat [poil of me been th Shakefpeare 6. The flough ; the caft-off fkin of a ferpent Snakes, the rather for the cafting of their [poil live till they be old Bacon SPo'1LER. #, /. [from po:l. 1 A robber a plunderer a pillager it love a nation concern itfelf to own and aflert the intereft of religion, b blafting the fpoilers of religious perfons and places South Came you then here, thus far, thro® waves, t conquer To wafte, to plunder, out of mere compaffion Is it humanity that prompts you on Happy for us, and happy for you fpoilers Had your humanity ne'er reach'd our world " A. Philips 2. One who mars or corrupts any thing $po'1LFUL. adj. [ fpoiland full.] Watteful rapacmus Having oft in battle vanquithe Thofe fpoilful Pi&s, and fwarming Eafterlings Loog time in peace his realm eftablithed. F. Qu SPOKE. . /. [ypaca, Saxon; fpeiche, German.] The bar of a wheel that pafle from the nave to the felly All you gods In general fynod take away her power Break all the fpokes and feilies of her wheel And bowl the round nave down the hill of heav'n No heir e'er drove fo fine a coach The fpokes, we are by Ovid told S/)ak‘j}mzre Were filver, and the axle gold SpokE Saift The preterite of Jpeat They fpoke beit in the glory of their conqueft Spratt Sro'ken Participle paflive of fpeat Wouldft thou be fpoken for to the king 2 Kings, V. 13 The original of thefe figns for communicatio is found in wiwa woce, in [poken language Holder on Speech Spo'kesmaN. n. /. [ fpoke and man. who fpeaks for another On >Tis you that have the reafon =1 do what -To be a fpokefman from Madam Silvia, Shake[p He fhall be thy [pokefman unto the people Exod. iv. 16 To SPO''LIATE. @. a. [ fpokio, Lat.] T rob; to plunder 4 Sroria'TioN. =, [, [ fpoliation, Fr. fpoliatio, Latin,] The a& of robbery o privation An ecclefiaftical benefice is fometimes void d Juze & faclo, and fometimes de fatto, and not d jure; as when a man fuffers a fpoliation by his ow at 7. /o [owovdun®-; fpondile, Fr Jpondylus, Latin. of the fpine A vertebra; a join It hath for the fpine or back-bone a cartilaginou fubftance, without any [pondyles, procefies, o protuberances Brown SPONGE. #. / Latin. [ fpongia A fof porous fubftance, fuppofed by {fome th It is remarkable fo nidus of animals fucking up water It is too often written /punge See SPUNGE Sponges are gathered from the fides of rocks Bacon being as a large but tough mofs They opened and wathed part of their fponges Great officers aie like fponges: they fuck till the are full, and, when they come once to be fqueezed 70 SPONGE Ben fonfon's Cataline wher SPo'NDYLE L'Effrange their very heart's blood comes away as fhe's becom Both her own fpoiler and own prey Providence the ftone, and the ftriving to heaveit up the mountain : Homer clogs the verfewith fpondees, and leave the vowels open Broome Sandys Such ruin of her manners Rom Doth fuffer now lables Ayliffe's Parergon w. a [fro th noun. T blot ; to wipe away as with a {ponge Except between the words of tranflation and th mind of Scripture itfelf there be contradi¢tion, ver little difference fhould not feem an' intolerable bleHooker mith neceffarily to be fpunged out deno;es a match fulphur that takes fre: 4 fi will ye buy2] Touchwood. Sro'NsaL. adj. [ fponfalis, Latin, a}tmg to marriage SPo'NSION. 7. /. [ fponfio, Latin, act of becoming furety for anothe SPO'NSOR. . /. [Latin.] A fret wh makes a promife or gives fecuriy for another In the baptifm of a male there ought males and one woman, and in the baptif of male child two women and one man; and t are called fponfors or fureties for their educationi the true _chri&ian faith The ant lives upon her own, honefily gotten whereas the fly is an intruder, and a commo fmell-feaft, that [punges upen other people's trenchers L' Eftrange Here wont the dean, when he's to feck To fpunge a breakfaft once a week Swift Spo'NGER #. /. [from jponge. One wh hangs for a maintenance on others A generous rich man, that kept a fplendid an open table, would try which were friends, an which only trencher-flies and fpungers. L'Eftrange SPo'NGINESS. #. /. [from /fpongy.] Softnefs, and fulnefs of cavities, like {ponge The lungs are expofed to receive all the dropping from the brain: avery fit ciftern, becaufe of thei Jponginefs Harwey Spo''NG10US. adj. [ fpongieux, French from fponge.] Full of fmall cavities lik a {fponge All thick bones are hollow or fporgeous, and contain an cleaginous fubftance in lictle veficles, whic by the heat of the body is exhaled through thef bones to fupply their fibres Cheyne Spo'N 4 Y. adj. [from fponge. 1. Soft and full of {fmall interftitial holes The lungs are the moft fpongy part of the body and therefore ableft to contract and dilate itfelf Bacon's Natural Hiffory A fpongy excrefcence groweth upon the roots o the lafer-tree, and upon cedar, very white, light and friabley called agarick Bacon's Nat. Hiffory The body of the tree, being very /pongy within though hard without, they eafily contrive into canoes More Into earth's fpungy veins the ocean finks Thofe rivers to replenifh which he drinks. Denbam Return, unhapp fwain The fpungy clouds are fill'd with gath'ring rain Dryden Her bones are all very fpongy, and more remark ably thofe of a wild bird long together whic flies much an Greaw 2. Wet ; drenched; foaked; full like fponge When their drench'd natures lie as in a death What'cannot you.and I pexform upo Ayliffe's Pargrp The fponfor ought to be of the fame fation the perfon to whom he becomes furety, The rath hermit, who with impious pra Had been the [porfor of another's care SPONTANEITY. 7. /. [ fpontancita fcho Lat. /pontancité, Fr. from [pontan Voluntarinefs ; willingnefs; accorduns compelled Neceflity and fpontaneity may fometimeme together, fo may fpontaneity and liberty; bi necefiity and true liberty can never Bramball againft Hi Stri& peceflity they fimple call 70SPONGE. w. n. To{fuckin as a fponge to gain by mean arts or any thin -~- 4. The a& ot robbery ; robbery ; watfte We fee in_the choice of the words the weight o Sronk. 7 /. [a word in Edinburs'hk Latin. = difpenf Native perfumes, and whifper whence they ftol Milton "Thofe balmy fpsils A foot of two long fyl deeus SR Gentle gales Fanning their odoriferous wings His fpungy officers, wgo {bmh :a?:;s;ifl B= o9 3. That which is taken from another Too late, alas SP SP SP It fo binds the will, that things foreknow By fpontaneity, not choice, are done SPONTA'NEOQUS from Jpente Dy adj. [ /pontaréey Latin.] ] Voluntary; compelled ; ating without compul or reftraint aftin of itfelf; ali of its own accord Many analogal motionsin animals, thoughlcan assn jpan the fe ye y nta vol th cal no I have reafon to conclude, that thefe areno ply mechanical They now came fort mov fpir the i wit fo us Spontane Attendant on their lord rg decl doe -pi nin fo Jo Whil And Roger loves to pitch the bar Both legs and arms fpontaneous movey prov t mea thi th wa ic ‘W o;l, th ar ev' o e fen Begin wit Parts anfwering parts fhall flide into 2\ ole nce adv n aro al tie bea Spontaneou cha fro ftri ty Start ev'n from difficu go i mak fhal tim you joi Nature fhal SPONTA N i o ous. | Voluntaril t a t a l i f p s would be as i Th a an edifice fhould natur s a r t m t g l o r t t u elves beneath it cu : 3 i a f o n t o f r t e o f a as har cheef m g g n SpONTA NEOUSNES cord unforced szl:", r ? oa a e t c g f ac m ) ‘ [ a mie~ e t o taneoufnef explicable, withou ] a t D r p nate power co an ankiso 1 rits, of a highe Hale' o modifi l o / r Sp o c s n c o A {mall piec r y ‘ n " O knot at eac turned i a quill fro kzl) [prob T Wrete |