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Spin [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. preterit tense and participle passive spun. Span is not used. [If the sense is to draw out or extend, this coincides in origin with span.]

2. To draw out and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton or flax; to spin goats' hair. All the yarn which Penelope spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca with moths.

3. To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process of be degrees; with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject.

4. To extend to a great length; as, to spin out a subject.

5. To draw out; to protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in the idleness By one delay after another, they spin out their whole lives.

6. To whirl with a thread; to turn or cause to whirl; as, to spin a top.

7. To draw out from the stomach in a filament; as, a spider spins a web.

8. TO spin HAY , in military language, is to twist it into ropes for convenient carriage on an expedition.

9. SPIN , v.il.

10. To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; as, the woman knows how to spin They neither know to spin nor car to toil.

11. To perform the act of drawing and twisting threads; as, a machine or jenny spins with great exactness.

12. To move round rapidly; to whirl; as a top or a spindle.

13. To stream or issue in a thread or small current; as, blood spins from a vein.

Spin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle.

2. Velocity of rotation about some specified axis.

Spin [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness.

2. To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis.

3. To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein.

4. To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.

Spin [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material.

2. To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process, or by degrees; to extend to a great length; -- with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject.

3. To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness.

4. To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to spin a top.

5. To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.

6. To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.

Spina bifida Webster's Dictionary 1913

A congenital malformation in which the spinal column is cleft at its lower portion, and the membranes of the spinal cord project as an elastic swelling from the gap thus formed.

Spinaceous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant spinach, or the family of plants to which it belongs.

Spinach [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant of the genus Spinacia.

Spinach [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Spinage

Spinach Encyclopedia Britannica

SPINACH. See Horticulture, vol. xii. pp. 285, 288.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 22, p. 399
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Spinage [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

SPIN'ACH, SPIN'AGE, noun [Latin spinacia.] A plant of the genus Spinacia.

Spinage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A common pot herb (Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the Goosefoot family.

Spinal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pertaining to the spine or back bone of an animal; as the spinal marrow; spinal muscles; spinal arteries.

Spinal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the backbone, or vertebral column; rachidian; vertebral.

2. Of or pertaining to a spine or spines.

Spinal cord Encyclopedia Britannica

SPINAL CORD. See Physiology, vol. xix. p. 34 sq. For the diseases affecting the spinal cord, see Ataxy (Locomotor), Paralysis, Pathology (vol. xviii. p. 392), and Surgery.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 22, p. 399
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Spinate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Bearing a spine; spiniform.

Spindle [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The pin used in spinning wheels for twisting the thread, and on which the thread when twisted, is wound.

2. A slender pointed rod or pin on which any thing turn; as the spindle of a vane.

3. The fusee of a watch.

4. A long slender stalk.

5. The lower end of a capstan, shod with iron; the pivot.

Spindle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To shoot or grow in a long slender stalk or body.

Spindle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.

2. A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.

3. The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc.

4. The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.

5. A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.

6. The fusee of a watch.

7. A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

8. A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.

9. A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.

10. Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.

11. Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.

Spindle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.

Spindle-legged [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having long, slender legs.

Spindle-legs [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A tall slender person; in contempt.

Spindle-shanked [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having long slender legs.

Spindle-shanked [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having long, slender legs.

Spindle-shanks [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

SPIN'DLE-LEGS, SPIN'DLE-SHANKS, noun A tall slender person; in contempt.

Spindle-shaped [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having the shape of a spindle; fusiform.

Spindle-shaped [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having the shape of a spindle.

2. Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots.

Spindle-tree [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant, prick-wood, of the genus Euonymus.

Spindled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Spindle

Spindlelegs [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A spindleshanks.

Spindleshanks [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt.

Spindletail [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The pintail duck.

Spindleworm [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The larva of a noctuid mmoth (Achatodes zeae) which feeds inside the stalks of corn (maize), sometimes causing much damage. It is smooth, with a black head and tail and a row of black dots across each segment.