Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SPURN'ER, n.

One who spurns.

SPURN'EY, n.

A plant. – Dict.

SPURN'ING, ppr.

Rejecting with contempt.

SPURN'-WA-TER, n.

In ships, a channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.

SPURRE, n.

A name of the sea swallow.

SPUR'RED, pp.

1. Furnished with spurs.
2. Incited; instigated.
3. adj. Wearing spurs, or having shoots like spurs.

SPUR'RER, n.

One who uses spurs.

SPUR'RI-ER, n.

One whose occupation is to make spurs.

SPUR'RING, ppr.

Pricking with spurs; inciting; urging.

SPUR-ROY'AL, n.

A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV. In the reign of James I. its value was fifteen shillings. Sometimes written spur-rial or ryal. – Beaum.

SPUR'RY, n.

A plant of the genus Spergula.

SPURT, n.

1. A sudden or violent ejection or gushing of a liquid substance from a tube, orifice or other confined place; a jet.
2. A sudden or short occasion or exigency; sudden effort. [Vulgar.]

SPURT, v.i.

To gush or issue out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream. Then the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, / Spurts in the gard'ner's eyes who turns the cock. – Pope.

SPURT, v.t. [Sw. spruta; Dan. spruder and sproyter, to spout, to squirt, to syringe. The English word has suffered a transposition of letters. It is from the root of sprout – which see.]

To throw out, as a liquid in a stream; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth, or other liquid from a tube.

SPURT'ING, ppr.

Forcing out a liquid from a pipe or small orifice.

SPURT'LE, v.t. [from spurt.]

To shoot in a scattering manner. [Little used.] – Drayton.

SPUR'WAY, n. [spur and way.]

A horse path; a narrow way; a bridle road; a way for a single beast. [Not used in the United States.]

SPUR'WHEEL, n.

A wheel with cogs around the edge pointing to the center.

SPU-TA'TION, n. [L. sputo, to spit.]

The act of spitting. [Not used.] – Harvey.

SPU'TA-TIVE, a. [supra.]

Spitting much; inclined to spit. [Not used.] – Wotton.

SPUT'TER, n.

Moist matter thrown out in small particles.

SPUT'TER, v.i. [D. spuiten, to spout; Sw. spotta; L. sputo, to spit. It belongs to the root of spout and spit; of the latter it seems to be a diminutive.]

1. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small or scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
2. To throw out moisture in small detached parts; as, green wood sputtering in the flame. – Dryden.
3. To fly off in small particles with some crackling or noise. When sparkling lamps their sputtering lights advance. – Dryden.
4. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; literally, to spout small; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva. They could neither of them speak their rage, and so they fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples. – Congreve.

SPUT'TER, v.t.

To throw out with haste and noise; to utter with indistinctness. In the midst of caresses … to sputter out the basest accusations. – Swift.

SPUT'TER-ED, pp.

Thrown out in small portions, as liquids; uttered with haste and indistinctness, as words.

SPUT'TER-ER, n.

One that sputters.