bell notificationshomepageloginedit profileclubsdmBox

Search word meanings:

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.

 

Back to top