Word Meanings - SPICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A spike or nail. Spick and span, quite new; that is, as new as a spike or nail just made and a chip just split; brand- new; as, a spick and span novelty. See Span-new. Howell.
Related words: (words related to SPICK)
- BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
See WORM - BRAND IRON
1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron. - SPLIT INFINITIVE
A simple infinitive with to, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive. - HOWELL
The upper stage of a porcelian furnace. - SPLITFEET
The Fissipedia. - SPLIT SWITCH
= Point switch. - SPLIT-TAIL
A california market fish belonging to the Carp family. The pintail duck. - SPLIT SHOT; SPLIT STROKE
In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact. - BRANDER
1. One who, or that which, brands; a branding iron. 2. A gridiron. - SPLIT DYNAMOMETER
An electric dynamometer having two coils so arranged that one carries the primary current, and the other the secondary current, of a transformer. - BRANDLE
To shake; to totter. - NOVELTY
1. The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction. Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. South. 2. Something novel; a new or strange thing. - SPLIT WHEEL
= Split pulley. - BRANDYWINE
Brandy. Wiseman. - SPLIT STITCH
A stitch used in stem work to produce a fine line, much used in old church embroidery to work the hands and faces of figures. - SPLIT-TONGUED
Having a forked tongue, as that of snakes and some lizards. - SPICK
A spike or nail. Spick and span, quite new; that is, as new as a spike or nail just made and a chip just split; brand- new; as, a spick and span novelty. See Span-new. Howell. - BRAND-NEW
Quite new; bright as if fresh from the forge. - SPIKEFISH
See SAILFISH - SPIKENARD
An aromatic plant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for - SESQUITERTIAL
Sesquitertian. - SESQUITERTIAN; SESQUITERTIANAL
Having the ratio of one and one third to one . - MESQUITE BEAN
The pod or seed of the mesquite. - PEPPERBRAND
See BUNT - UNSPIKE
To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon. - FIREBRAND
1. A piece of burning wood. L'Estrange. 2. One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary. Bacon. - MISPICKEL
Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite. - MESQUITE; MESQUIT
A name for two trees of the southwestern part of North America, the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite. Honey mesquite. See Algaroba . -- Screw-pod mesquite, a smaller tree , having spiral pods used as fodder and sometimes as food - PHASE SPLITTER
A device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase. It is used in starting single-phase induction motors. - EAR-SPLITTING
Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains.