and death, so is the man that deceiveth his SPO'RTFUL. adj. [sport and full.] neighbour, and saith, am not I in sport? Proverbs. The discourse of fools is irksome, and their sport is in the wantonness of sin. Ecclesiasticus. 2. Mock; contemptuous mirth. If I suspect without cause, why then make sport at me, then let me be your jest. Shaksp. They had his messengers in derision, and made 1 Esdras. a sport of his prophets. To make sport with his word, and to endeavour to render it ridiculous, by turning that holy book into raillery, is a direct affront to God. 3. That with which one plays. Tillotson. Each on his rock transfix'd, the sport and prey Of wrecking whirlwinds. Commit not thy prophetick mind Milton. To flitting leaves, the sport of every wind, Dryden. Some grave their wrongs on marble; he, more just, Stoop'd down serene, and wrote them on the Trod under foot, the sport of ev'ry wind, mind; There secret in the grave he hade them lie, eye. 4. Play; idle gingle. An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage, would meet with small applause. Broome. 5. Diversion of the field, as of fowling, hunting, fishing. Now for our mountain sport, up to yon hill, Your legs are young. Shakspeare. The king, who was excessively affected to hunting, and the sports of the field, had a great desire to make a great park, for red as well as fallow deer, between Richmond and Hampton Court. Clarendon. To SPORT. v. a. [from the noun.] The poor man wept and bled, cried and prayed, while they sported themselves in his pain, and delighted in his prayers, as the argument of their victory. Sidney. Shakspeare. Away with him, and let her sport berself With that she's big with. Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? Isaiah. What pretty stories these are for a man of his seriousness to sport himself withal! Atterbury. Let such writers go on at their dearest peril, and sport themselves in their own deceivings. Watts. SPO'RTFULLY. adv. (from sportful.] The otter got out of the river, and inweeded himself so, as the ladies lost the further marking of his sportfulness. Sidney. SPORTIVE. adj. [from sport.] Gay; merry; frolick; wanton; playful; ludicrous. I am not in a sportive humour now; Is it I We must not hope wholly to change their original tempers; nor make the gay pensive and grave, nor the melancholy sportive, without Locke. spoiling them. No wonder savages or subjects slain, Were equal crimes in a despotick reign; Both doom'd alike for sportive tyrants bled, But subjects starv'd while savages were fed. Pope. SPORTIVENESS. n. s. [from sportive.] Gayety; play; wantonness. Shall I conclude her to be simple, that has her time to begin, or refuse sportiveness as freely as I have? Walton. SPORTSMAN.n. s. [sport and man.] One who pursues the recreations of the field. Addison. Manilius lets us know the pagan hunters had Meleager for their patron, as the christians have their St. Hubert: he speaks of the constellation which makes a good sportsman. SPO'RTULE. n.s. [sportule, Fr. sportula, Lat.] An alms; a dole. The bishops, who consecrated the ground, had a spill or sportule from the credulous laity. Ayliffe. SPOT. n. 5. [spette, Danish; spotte, Flemish.] 1. A blot; a mark made by discoloration. And spotless shall mine innocence arise, When the king knows my truth. Shakspeare. I dare my life lay down, that the queen is spotless In th' eyes of Heaven. You grac'd the sev'ral parts of life, A spotless virgin, and a faultless wife. "Waller. sometimes wish that it had been our lot to live and converse with Christ, to hear his divine discourses, and to observe his spotless behaviour; and we please ourselves perhaps with thinking, how ready a reception we should have given to him and his doctrine. Atterbury. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd. Pope. SPOTTER. n. s. [from spot. ] One that spots; one that maculates. SPOTTY. adj. [from spot. ] Full of spots; maculated. The moon, whose orb Through optick glass the Tuscan artist views In Valombrosa to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, on her spotty globe. Milt. SPOU'SAL. adj. [from spouse.] Nuptial; matrimonial; conjugal; connubial; bridal. There shall we consummate our spousal rites. Sbakspeare. Otway. As in this grove I took my last farewel, As on this very spot of earth I feil, Hope's chaste kiss wrongs no more jos's maidenhead, So she my prey becomes ev'n here. Dryden. Than spousal rites prejudice the marriage bed. Crashaw. Here Adrian fell: upon that fatal spot Our brother died. Granville. Milton. 6. Upon the SPOT. Immediately; without changing place. [sur le champ.] The lion did not chop him up immediately mpon the spot; and yet he was resolved he should not escape. L'Estrange. Swift. It was determined upon the spot, according as the oratory on either side prevailed. To SPOT. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To mark with discolorations; to maculate. They are polluted off rings, more abhorr'd But serpents now more amity maintain; This other, in her prime of love, Thy spousal ornament neglected lies; Pope. To make divorce of their incorporate league. Shakspeare. The amorous bird of night Sung spousal, and bid haste the ev'ning star, On his hili top to light the bridal lamp. Milton. The spousals of Hippolita the queen, What tilts and tourneys at the feast were seen! Dryden. Ætherial musick did her death prepare, Like joyful sounds of spousals in the air: A radiant light did her crown'd temples gild. Dryden. SPOUSE. n. 5. [sponsa, sponsus, Latin; espouse, French.] One joined in marriage; a husband or wife. She is of good esteem; Beside, so qualified as may bescem The spouse of any noble gentleman. Sbakspeare. They led the vine Milton. To wed her elm; she spous'd about him twines Her marriageable arms. SPOU'SELESS.adj. [from spouse.] Wanting a husband or wife. To tempt the spouseless queen with am'rous wiles, Resort the nobles from the neighb'ring isles. Pope. SPOUT. n. s. [from spuyt, Dutch.] 1. A pipe, or mouth of a pipe or vessel, out of which any thing is poured. She gasping to begin some speech, her eyes Became two spouts. Shakspeare. In whales that breathe, lest the water should get unto the lungs, an ejection thereof is contrived by a fistula or spout at the head. Brown. If you chance it to lack, Be it claret or sack, I'll make this snout To deal it about, Or this to run out, As it were from a spout. Ben Jonson. As waters did in storms, now pitch runs out, As lead, when a fir'd church becomes one spout. Donne. In Gaza they couch vessels of earth in their walls, to gather the wind from the top, and to pass it down in spouts into rooms. Bacon. Let the water be fed by some higher than the pool, and delivered into it by fair spouts, and then discharged by some equality of bores, that it stay little. Bacon. In this single cathedral, the very spouts are loaded with ornaments. Addison. Not the dreadful spout, Which shipmen do the hurricano call, Constring'd in mass by the almighty sun, Shall dizzy with more clamour Neptune's ear In his descent, than shall my prompted sword Falling on Diomede. Sbakspeare. The force of these motions pressing more in some places than in others, there would fall not showers, but great spouts or cascades of water. Burnet. To SPOUT. v. a. [from the noun.] To pour with violence, or in a collected body, as from a spout. We will bear home that lusty blood again, Which here we came to spout against your town. Shakspeare. I intend two fountains; the one that sprinkleth or spouteth water, the other a fair receipt of Bacon. water. musick of certain waters, which spouted out of the side of the hills. Sidney No hands could force it thence, so fixt it stood, Till out it rush'd, expell'd by streams of spouting blood. Dryden. It spouts up out of deep wells, and flies forth at the tops of them, upon the face of the ground. Woodward. Thomson. All the glittering hill Is bright with spouting rills. SPRAG. adj. Vigorous; sprightly. A provincial word. Shakspeare. A good sprag memory. To SPRAIN. v. a. [corrupted from strain.) To stretch the ligaments of a joint without dislocation of the bone. Should the big last extend the shoe too wide, The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein, Thy cracking joint unhinge, or ancle spruin. Gay. SPRAIN. n. s. (from the verb.] Extension of the ligaments without dislocation of the joint. I was in pain, and thought it was with some sprain at tennis. Temple. SPRAINTS. n. s. The dung of an otter. SPRANG. The preterit of spring. Diet. Mankind sprang from one common original; whence this tradition would be universally diffused. Tillotson. SPRAT.n.s. [sprot, Dutch; sarda, Lat.] A small sea fish. So oft, in feasts with costly changes clad, To crammed maws a sprat new storhach brings. Sidney. All-saints do lay for porke and sowse, For sprats and spurlings for their house. Tusser. Of round fish there are brit, sprat, barn, smelts. Carers. To SPRAWL.V.n. [spradle, Danish; spartelen, Dutch.] 1. To struggle, as in the convulsions of death. Hang the child, that he may see it sprawl; Shakspeare. Some lie sprawling on the ground, With many a gash and bloody wound. Hudibras. 2. To tumble or creep with much agitation and contortion of the limbs. A sight to vex the father's soul. The birds were not fledged; but, upon sprawling and struggling to get clear of the flame, down they tumbled. L'Estrange. Telamon hap'd to meet A rising root that held his fasten'd feet; So down he fell, whom sprawling on the ground His brother from the wooden gyves unbound. Dryden. Hence, long before the child can crawl, He learns to kick, and wince, and sprawl. Prior. Did the stars do this feat once only, which gave beginning to human race? who were there then in the world, to observe the births of those first men, and calculate their nativities, as they sprawled out of ditches? Bentley. He ran, he leapt into a flood, There sprawl'd a while, and scarce got out, All cover'd o'er with slime. Swift. SPRAY. n.s. [of the same race with sprit and sprout.] 1. The extremity of a branch. At sight whereof each bird that sits on spray, And every beast that to his den was fled, Hubberd's Tale. Thus droops this lofty pine, and hangs his sprays; No flower hath that spread of the woodbine. Bacon. Thus Eleanor's pride dies in her younger days. SPREADER.n.s. [from spread.] Shakspeare. The wind that whistles through the sprays Maintains the consort of the song; And hidden birds, with native lays, Dryden. 2. The foam of the sea, commonly written spry. Winds raise some of the salt with the spray. Arbuthnot. To SPREAD. v. a. [rpredan, Saxon, spreyden, Dutch.] 1. To extend; to expand; to make to cover or fill a larger space than before. He bought a field where he had spread his Genesis. Rizpah spread sackcloth for her upon the rock. 2 Samuel. tent. 1. One that spreads. By conforming ourselves, we should be spreaders of a worse infection than any we are likely to draw from papists, by our conformity with them in ceremonies. Hooker. 2. Publisher; divulger; disseminator. If it be a mistake, I desire I may not be accused for a spreader of false news. Swift. SPRENT. part. [from sprene, to sprinkle; sprengan, rprenan, Saxon; sprengen, Dutch.] Sprinkled. Obsolete. O lips, that kiss'd that hand with my tears sprent. Sidney. SPRIG.n.s. [ysbrig, Welsh; so Davies: but it is probably of the same race with spring.] A small branch; a spray. The substance is true ivy; after it is taken down, the friends of the family are desirous to have some sprig to keep. Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years; While ev'ry fool his claim alleges, As if it grew in common hedges. SPRIG Chrystal. n. s. Bacon. Swift. In perpendicular fissures, chrystal is found in form of an hexangular column, adhering at one end to the stone, and near the other lessening gradually, till it terminates in a point: point: this is called by lapidaries sprig or rock chrystal. branches. Woodward. SPRIGGY.adj. [from sprig.] Full of small SPRIGHT. n. s. [contraction of spirit; spiritus, Latin. It was anciently written sprete, or spryte; and spirit, as now written, was long considered in verse as a monosyllable: this word should therefore be spelled sprite, and its derivatives spritely, spriteful; but custom has determined otherwise.] She doth display I. Spirit; shade; soul; incorporeal agent. To bear the message of her spright. 2. Walking spirit; apparition. 3. Power which gives cheerfulness or cou rage. O chastity! the chief of heav'nly lights, Which mak'st us most immortal shape to wear, Hold thou my heart, establish thou my sprights; To only thee my constant course I bear, Ray. 3. To proceed as from seed. Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves; and in the second year that which springeth of the same. 2 Kings. Much more good of sin shall spring. Milton. 4. To come into existence; to issue forth. Hadst thou sway'd as kings should do, Giving no ground unto the house of York, They never then had sprung like summer flies. Shakspeare. Ev'n thought meets thought, ere from the lips it part, And each warm wish springs mutual from the heart. Pope. 5. To arise; to appear; to begin to appear or to exist. When the day began to spring, they let her Judges. go. To them which sat in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up. Matthew. Fly, fly, prophane fogs! far hence fly away, Taint not the pure streams of the springing day With your dull influence: it is for you To sit and scowl upon night's heavy brow. Crashaw. Do not blast my springing hopes, Shakspeare. Which thy kind hand has planted in my soul. SPRIGHTLESS. adj. [from spright.] Dull; SPRIGHTLINESS. n. s. [from sprightly.] Liyeliness; briskness; vigour; gayety; vivacity. Addison. The soul is clogged when she acts in conjuction with a companion so heavy; but, in dreams, observe with what a sprightliness and alacrity does she exert herself. SPRIGHTLY.adj. [from spright.] Gay; brisk; lively; vigorous; airy; vivacious. Produce the wine that makes us bold, And sprightly wit and love inspires. Dryden. When now the sprightly trumpet, from afar, Had giv'n the signal of approaching war. Dryd. Each morn they wak'd me with a sprightly lay: Prior. Of opening heav'n they sung, and gladsome day. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green; She runs, but hopes she does not run unseen. Pope. ToSPRING.v.n. preterit sprung or sprang, anciently sprong; part. sprung. [rprinzan, Saxon; springen, Dutch.] 1. To arise out of the ground, and grow, by vegetative power. All blest secrets, All you unpublish'd virtues of the earth, Spring with my tears; be aidant and remediate In the good man's distress. Shakspeare. To his musick plants and flowers Ever sprung, as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Shakspeare. To satisfy the desolate ground, and cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth. Job. Mark. Other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased. Tell me, in what happy fields The thistle springs, to which the lily yields? a. To begin to grow. Pope. That the nipples should be made with such perforations as to admit passage to the milk when drawn, otherwise to retain it; and the |