Vocabulary : Spatula to Spawn

Spatula : An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc. Cf. Palette knife, under Palette.
Spatulate : Shaped like spatula, or like a battledoor, being roundish, with a long, narrow, linear base.
Spauld : The shoulder.
Spavin : A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones; also, the swelling itself. The resulting lameness is due to the inflammation, and not the bony tumor as popularly supposed.
Spavined : Affected with spavin.

Spaw : See Spa.
Spawl : A splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. See Spall. ;; Scattered or ejected spittle. ;; To scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit, as saliva.
Spawled : of Spawl
Spawling : of Spawl ;; That which is spawled, or spit out.
Spawn : To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do. ;; To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt. ;; To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do. ;; To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously. ;; The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals. ;; Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously. ;; The buds or branches produced from underground stems. ;; The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi.

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