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Show S sSeE SP Now from beneath Maleas" airy heigh Envied Britannia, fturdy as the oa Which on her mountain top fhe proudly bears Eludes the ax, and [prouts againft the ftroke Strong from her wounds, and greater by her wars Prior Rub malt between your hands to get the com DMortimer's Hufbandry or [prouting clean away 2. To fhoot into ramifications Vitriol is apt to [prout with moifture Bacon 3. To grow Th' enliv'ning duft its head begins to rear And on the athes fprouting plumes appear. Tickel SerovuT. 7 /. [from the verb.] A fhoot o a vegetable Aloft fhe fprung, and feer'd to Thebes her flight Pope Who fprung from kings fhall knowlefs joy than 1 Pope SpruNT. 7 /. Any thing that is fhort and will not eafily bend Spup. z /. A fhort knife; any fhor thick thing, in contempt My love te Sheelah is more firmly fix Than ftrongeft weeds that grow thefe ftones betwixt My [pud thefe nettles from the ftones can part No knife fo keen to weed thee from my heart Savift Stumps of trees, lying out of the ground, will | SpPU‘LLERS of Yarn. n. /. [perhaps proBacon put forth fprouts for a time Are fuch as are emperly Jpoolers. Early, ere the odorous breath of mor an {pun wel b i tha fe t ploye Awakes the flumbering leaves, or taffel'd hor Dié& fit for the loom Shakes the high thicket, hafte I all about Number my ranks, and vifit every [prout. Milton To this kid, taken out of the womb, wer brought in the tender fprouts of fhrubs; and, afte it had tafted, it began to eat of fuch as are th SPUME coleworts SPRUCE. adj. [Skinner derives this wor bu from preux, French he propofes it | ¢ with hefitation : Funius thinks it come from fprout. Calaubon trifles yet mor contemptibly. I know not whence to deduce it, except from pruace. In ancient books we find furniture of pruce thing coftly and elegant, and thenc probably came /pruce. Nice; trim neat without elegance. It was ancientl ufed of things with a ferious meaning it is now ufed only of perfons, and wit levity The tre That wraps that cryftal in a wooden tomb Shall be teok up fpruce, fill''d with diamond Tho Donze wilt not leave me in the middle ftreet Tho' fome more fpruce companion thou doft meet Donne Along the crifped thades and bow'r Revels the fpruce and jocund fpring The graces, and the rofy-bofom'd hours Thither all their bounties bring Milton I muft not flip into too [pruce a ftyle for feriou matters5 and yet I approve not that dull infipi way of writing praétifed by many chymifts. Boy/e He put his band and beard in order The [fprucer to accoft and board her. Hudibras He is fo fpruce, that he can never be genteel Tatler This Tim makes a firange figure with tha vagged coat under his livery: can't he go fpruc and clean Arbuthnot 70 Spruck. v. #. [from the noun.] T drefs with affe¢ted neatnefs SpruUCE. #./. A fpecies of fir SPRUCEBE'ER. 7 /. [from jpruce, a kin ; froth Of fpirituous and fiery [pume, till touch' With heaven's ray, and temper'd, they fhoot fort Youn SerouTs. z /. pl. [from jprout. Foa Lat. [/}umtz Materials dark and crude Ray on the Creation ufual food of goats So beauteous, op'ning to the ambient light. iz Waters frozen in pans, after their diffolution leave a froth and fpume upon them, which ar caufed by the airy parts diffufed by the congealabl mixture Brown's Vulgar Ervours gy UME @w. [ fpumo Latin. T foam ; to froth Spu'mous. ) adj. [ fpumeuns, Latin; fro g,y iy the noun.] Frothy ; foamy The caufe is the putrefaction of the body by un natural heat: the putrifying parts {uffer a turgefcence, and becoming airy and fpumous, afcend unt the furface of the water. Browi Not with more madnefs, rolling from afar The fpumy waves proclaim the wat'ry war And mounting upwards with a mighty roar March onwards, and infult the rocky fhore. Dryd The fpumous and florid ftate of the blood, i pafling through the lungs, arifes from its ow elafticity, and its violent motion, the agrial particles expanding themfelves Arbuihnot Spuwn Th preterite and part. pafl. o Jpin Thenymph nor fpun, nor drefs'd with artful pride Her veft was gather'd up, her hair was tied. Addif {SPUNGE. . /. [ fpongia, Lat. See SPONGE A{ponge When he needs what you have gleaned, it is bu fqueezing you, and, /punge, you fhall be dry again Shakefpeare's Hamlet Confidering the motion that was imprefled b he painter's hand upon the [punge, compounde with the fpecifick gravity of the /punmge and th refiftance of the air, the [pung and unavoidably mov motion i di mechanicall that particular lize o Bentley's Sermons To SPUNGE. w. n. [rather To fponge. hang on others for maintenance 'T ~ This will maintain you, with the perquifite o Jpunging while you are young Sawift to Gay SPU'NGINGHOUSE. #. /i [ fpunge an houfe.] A houfe to which debtors ar of fir.] Beer tinctured with branches of taken before commitment to prifon fir wher the bailiffs fponge upon them, o In ulcers of the kidneys, fpruccbecr is a goo balfamick SPrRU'CELEATHER 7. / Pruffian leather. "The leather was of Pruee Arbutbnot [corrupted fo Ainfworth Dryden's Fables SPRU'CELY. adv. [from /pruce.] Ina nic manner Spru'cenEss. z [ [from jpruce.] Neatnefs without elegance Serung The preterite and participl paffive of /pring Tall Norway fir their mafts in battle fpent £nd Englith ogks fprung leaks and planks reftore Dryden riot at their coft A bailift kept you the whole evening in a fpunginghoufe Savift Sru'Ney. adj. [from fpunge. 1. Full of fmal {ponge holes an fof like Some Englith wool, vex'd in a Belgian loom And into cloth of /pungy foftnefs made Did into France or colder Denmar To ruin with worfe air our ftaple trade 2. Wet moift ; watery I faw Jove's bird the Roma roam Dryden eagle, wing' From the fpungy fouth to this part of the weft There vanifh'd in the fun-beams Shak. Cymbeline T 3. Having the quality of imbi There is no lady of mote foft 1s: bowels e i More Jpungy to fuck in the fen e of g;il,‘,'s&, PUNK. 7z / Rotten wood; togchus See Sronk To make white powder, the beft y a powder of rotten willows,: j}uni ;Za)z'o:c:y prepared, might perhaps make jt ruffe Brown's Vilgar Brryyy; 5 SPUR. 7. /. [ypuna, Saxon ; foure, gy, nh,Iflandlcl an Dutch ¢/peron, Fr ( 1. A fharp point fixed in the rid r's hee] with which he pricks his horfe ¢ driv him forward He borrowing that homely armo ur for wantof better, had come upon the Jpur to redeem Phily clea's picture Sidneg Whether the body politick h A horfe whereon the governour doth ride ‘Who, newly in the feat, that it may kno He can command it, lets it ftraight feel th ‘S}Mktf['fafl _He prefently fet fpurs to his horfe, and departed with the reft of the company Krnolles's Hiftory of th ‘Was I for this intitled Sir,fi 1 Turk And girt with rufty fword and fpar For fame and honour'to wage battle? Hudibya, 2. Incitement; inftigation, Itis ufed wit o before the effect. Dryden has ufed with of'; but, if he fpeaks properly, he | means o make the following word per{fonal Seeing then that nothing can move, ul there be fome end, the defire whereof provoket unto motion, how fhould that divine power of th foul, that fpirit of our mind, ever fir itfelfint action, unlefs it have alfo thelike fpur? Huk What need we any fpur, but our own caufe Shakefp. FuliusCefi To prick us to redrefs His laws are deep, and not vulgar; notmai upen the fpur of a particular occafion, but out providence of the future, to make his people mor Bae and more happy 1 Reward is the fpur qfvirtuein all go?d ar'ts,al laudable attempts; and emulation, Iwhu:h is th other fpur, will never be wanting, when partictla P'?'d‘" rewards are propofed The chief, if not only, fpur to human indult .L"" and adtion, is uneafinefs The former may be a fpur to the latten tll makes hi childifh bait in love with the ftudy, withoutat ' CW {3. A ftimulus a prick; any thing th galls and teazes Mingle their fpurs together Shatkefp G ,bz bo h i r o e p t e a c Grie o l g t o p i t 4. The fhar with which he fights t e w wi m t e li o i bi th Of bird sk as for their fpur, it is but a nail Animal "have natural weapons fo ¢ S offend; fome talons, fome ¢laws, fome Jpur R beaks 5. Any thing f omontory befp The {trong-bas'd p fl t p k b f b u Have I made fh The p 7o Spur. w t. To the {pur : t n i f M horfe of flartir;_g fits, fpu the coach Yfmr father, when he mou?rt;?;hem hard Rein'd "em in ftrongly, and he fp @56 oy ing, Whe ; y ; : ; 1 Q b o t t a b Wh e 13 ; i e f r c 1 h he find y brow-be ¢ty the st natura n hav the for thoug 1 |