drive thoughts of business out of his head, and low; deprived of vigour; wanting cou. make his spirits drowsy enough for sleep. Law. rage; depressed. 15. Characteristical likeness; essential A man so faint, so spiritless, qualities. So dull, so dead in look, so woe begone, Italian pieces will appear best in a room where Drew Priam's curtain. Shakspeare. che windows are high, because they are com Of their wonted vigour left them drain'd, monly made to a descending light, which of all Exhausted, spiritless, afficted, fall’n. Milton. other doch set off men's faces in their truest spi. Nor did all Rome, grown spiritless, supply Wotton. A man that for bold truth durst bravely die. 16. Any thing eminently pure and refined. Dryden. Nor doth the eye itself , Art thou so base, so spiritless a slave ? That most pure spirit of'sense, behold itself. Not so he bore the fate to which you doom'd him. Smith, Shakspeare. 17. That which hath power or energy: SPI'RITOUS. adj. [from spirit.] There is in vine a mighty spirit, that will not 1. Refined ; defecated; advanced near to be congealed. Sourth. spirit. 18. An inflammable liquor raised by distil. More refin'd, more spiritous and pure, lation: as brandy, rum. As nearer to him plac'd, or nearer tending. What the chymists call spirit, they apply the Milton. name to so many different things, that they seem 2. Fine; ardent; active. to have no settled notion of the thing. In gene- SPI'RITOUSNESS. n. s. [from spiritous.] ral, they give the name of spirit to any distilled Fineness and activity of parts. volatile liquor. Boyle. They, notwithstanding the great thinness and All spirits, by frequent use, destroy, and ac spiritousness of the liquor, did lift up the upper last extinguish the natural heat of the stomach. surface, and for a moment form a thin film like Temple. a small hemisphere. Boyle. In distillations, what trickles down the sides SPI'RITUAL.adj. [spirituel, French; from of the receiver, if it will not mix with water, is oil; if it will, it is spirit. Arbuthnot. spirit.] 19. It may be observed, that in the poets 1. Distinct from matter; immaterial ; inspirit was a monosyllable, and therefore corporeal. was often written sprite, or, less pro Echo is a great argument of the spiritual essence of sounds; for if it were corporeal, the perly, spright. repercussion should be created by like instruThe charge thereof unto a courteous spright ments with the original sound. Bacon. Commanded was. Spenser. Both visibles and audibles in their working To SPI'RIT. v.a. emit tro corporeal substance into their incdiums, 1. To animate or actuate as a spirit. but only carry certain spiritual species. Bacon. All creatures, as well spiritual as corporeal, So talk'd the spirited sly snake. Milton. declare their absolute dependence upon te first 2. To excite; to animate ; to encourage ; Author of all beings, the only self-existent God. to invigorate to action. Bentley. He will be faint in any execution of such a 2. Mental; intellectual. counsel, unless spirited by the unanimous de Spiritual armour, able to resist crees of a general diet. Temple. Satan's assaults. Milton. Civil dissensions never fail of introducing and The same disaster has invaded his spirituals : spiriting the ambition of private men. Swift. the passions rebel; and there are so many go Many officers and private men spirit up and vernours, that there can be no government. assist those obstinate people to continue in South. their rebellion. Swift. 3. Not gross; refined from external things; 3. To draw ; to entice. relative only to the mind. In the southern coast of America, the south Some, who pretend to be of a more spiritual ern point of the needle varieth toward the land, and refined religion, spend their time in conas being disposed and spirited that way by the templation, and talk much of communion with meridional and proper hémisphere. Brorun. God. Calamy. The ministry had him spirited away, and car. ried abroad as a dangerous person. 4. Not temporal ; relating to the things Arbutbrot and Pope. of heaven; ecclesiastical. SPI'RITALLY. adv. [from spiritus, Lat.) Piace man in some publick society, civil or By means of the breath. spiritual. Hooker. Thou art reverend Conceive one of each pronounced spiritally, the other vocally. Touching thy spiritual function, not thy life. Holder. Sbakspeare. SPI'RITED. adj. [from spirit.] Lively ; I have made an offer to his majesty, vivacious; full of fire. Upon our spiritual convocation, Dryden's translation of Virgil is noble and As touching France, to give a greater sum spirited. Pope. Than ever at one time the clergy did. Sbaks, SPI'RITEDNESS. n. s. [from spirited.] Those servants, who have believing masters, Disposition or make of mind. are forbid to withdrawany thing of their worldly He showed the narrow spiritedness, pride, and respect, as presuming upon their spiritual kindignorance, of pedants. Addison. red; or to honour then less, because they are SPI'RITFULNESS, n. s. [from spirit and become their brethren in being believers. Kettleworth. full.] Sprightliness; liveliness. The clergy's business lies among the laity; nor A cock's crowing is a tone that corresponds to is there a more effectual way to forward the salo singing, attesting his mirth and spiritfulness. vation of men's souls, than for spiritual persolis Harvey. to make themselves as agreeable as they can in SPI'RITLESS. adj. [from spirit.] Dejected; the conversations of the world, Szeift, She loves them as her spirituel children, and lity of being spirituous; tenuity and they reverence her as their spiritual mother, activity. with an affection far above that of the fondest To SPIRT. v. n. [spruyten, Dutch, to friends. Law. SPIRITUA'LITY. M. 5. [from spiritual.] shoot up, Skinner; spritta, Swedish, 1. Incorporeity; immateriality ; essence to fly out, Lye.] To spring out in a distinct from matter. sudden stream ; to stream out by inIf this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth tervals. nearest unto spirituality, and if it have any Bottling of beer, while new and full of spirit,so corporality, then of all other the most subtile that it spirtetb when the stopple is taken forth, and pure. Raleigh. maketh the drink more quick and windy. Bacon 2. Intellectual nature. Thus the small jett, which hasty hands unlock, A pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its Spirts in the gard'ner's eyes who turns the cock. Popes spirituality, and equal to all its capacities. Soutb. TO SPIRT. v.a. To throw out in a jet. 3. (spiritualité, French.] Acts independent of the body; pure acts of the soul; When weary Proteus Retir'd for shelter to his wonted caves, mental refinement. His finny Hocks about their shepherd play, Many secret indispositions and aversions to And, rowling round him, spirt the bitter sea. duty will steal upon the soul, and it will require Dryden. both time and close application of mind to re When rains the passage hide, South. Gay. 4. That which belongs to any one as an SPIRT, n. š. [from the verb.] ecclesiastick. 1. Sudden ejection. Of common right, the dean and chapter are 2. Sudden effort. guardians of the spiritualities,during the vacancy Of a bishoprick. Ayliffé. To Spi'RTLE. v. a. [a corruption of SPIRITUALTY, 1. s. [from spiritual.] spirt.) To shoot scatteringly. Ecclesiastical body. Not in use. The brains and mingled blood were spirtledon We of the spiritualty the wall. Dragter. Will raise your highness such a mighty sum, The terraqueous globe would, by the centriAs never did the clergy at one time. Shaksp. fugal force of that motion, be soon dissipated and SPIRITUALIZA'TION. n. s. [from spirit spirtled into the circumambient space, was it not ualize.] The act of spiritualizing. kept together by this noble contrivance of the Creator. Derbar. To Spi'RITUALIZE. v. a. [spiritualiser, Spi'ry. adj. [from spire.] French ; from spirit.] To refine the 1. Pyramidal. intellect; to purify from the feculencies Waste sandy valleys, once perplex'd with of the world. thorn, This would take it much out of the care of the The spiry fir and shapely box adorn. Popes soul, to spiritualize and replenish it with good In these lone walls, their days eternal bouod, works. Hammond. These moss-grown domes with spiry turrets We begin our survey from the lowest dregs of crown'd, sense, and so ascend to our more spiritualized Where awful arches make a noon-day night, selves. Glanville. And the dim windows shed a solemn light, As to the future glory in which the body is to Thy eyes diffus'd a reconciling ray, partake, that load of earth which now engages And gleams of glory brightend all the day. Pepa to corruption must be calcined and spiritualized, 2. Wreathed; curled. and thus be cloathed upon with glory. Hid in the spiry volumes of the snake, Decay of Piety. I lurk'd within the covert of a brake. Dryder. if man will act rationally, he cannot admit Spiss. adj. (spissus, Latin.] Close ; firm; any competition between a momentary satisfac- thick. Not in use. tion, and an everlasting happiness, as great as From his modest and humble charity, virtues God can give, and our spiritualized capacities which rarely cohabit with the swelling windireceive. Rogers. SPI'RITUALLY. adv. [from spiritual.] ness of much knowledge, issued this spiss and dense yet polished, this copious yet concise, Without corporeal grossness ; with at- treatise of the variety of languages. Brerequerda tention to things purely intellectual. SPI'SSITUDE. n. s. [from spissus, Lat.) In the same degree that virgins live more spi- Grossness; thickness. ritually than other persons, in the same degree Drawing wine or beer from the lees, called is their virginity a more excellent state. Taylor. racking, it will clarify the sooner; for though SPI'RITUOUS. adj. [spiritueux, French ; the lees keep the drink in heart, and make it from spirit.] lasting, yet they cast up some spissitude. Bacen. Spissitude is subdued by acrid things, and acri1. Having the quality of spirit, tenuity, mony by inspissating. Arbuthnet. and activity of parts. Spit. n. s. (rpitan, Saxon ; spit, Dutch; More refin'd, more spirituous and pure, As to him nearer tending. spedo, Italian.) Milton. The most spirituous and most fragrant part of 1. A long prong on which meat is driven, the plant exhales by the action of the sun. to be turned before the fire. Arbuthnot. A goodly city is this Antium; 2. Lively ; gay; vivid ; airy. 'Tis I that made thy widows: then know me not, It may appear airy and spirituous, and fit for the welcome of chearful guests. Wotton. Lest that thy wives with spits, and boys with SPIRITUO'SITY. n. s. [from spiritu. In puny battle slay me. SPI'RITUOUSNESS, ous.] The quas Shakspecies They may be contrived to the moving of sails stones, a in a chimney corner, the motion of which may Begone, ye criticks, and restrain your spite; be applied to the turning of a spit. Wilkins. Codrus writes on, and will for ever write: Pope. With Peggy Dixon thoughtful sit, 2. Suite of, or In SPITE of. NotwithContriving for the pot and spit. Swift. 2. Such a depth of earth as is pierced by standing; in defiance of. It is often used without any malignity of meaning. one action of the spade. I'll guard thee free, Where the earth is washed from the quick, And save thee in her spite. Chapman. face it with the first spit of earth dug out of the Blessed be such a preacher, whom God made ditch. Mortimer. use of to speak a word in season, and saved me TO SPIT. v. a. preterit spat ; participle in spite of the world, the devil, and myself. Soutb. pass. spit or spitted. [from the noun.] In spite of me I love, and see too lase 1. To put upon a spit. My mother's pride must find my mother's fate. I see my cousin's ghost Dryden. Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body For thy lov'd sake, spite of my boding fears, Upon a rapier's point. Sbakspears. I'll meet the danger which ambition brings. 2. To thrust through. Rorse. My father's fate, I spitted frogs, I crush'd a heap of emmets. Dryden. In spite of all the fortitude that shines To Seit, v. a. [rpætan, Saxon; spytter, Before my face in Cato's great example, Subdues my soul, and fills my eyes with tears. Danish.) To eject from the mouth. Addison. A large mouth, indeed, In spite of all applications, the patient gewr That spits forth death and mountains. Sbaksp. worse every day. Arburonot. Coormissions which compel from each The sixth part of his subsiance, make bold To SFITE. v. a. (from the noun.} mouths, 1. To mischief; to treat maliciously; to Tongues spit' their duties out, and cold hearts vex; to thwart malignantly. freeze Beguild, divorc’d, wrong d, spighted, slain, Allegiance in them. Sbakspeare. Most detestable death, by thee. Sbakspeare The sca thrusts up her waves, I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love, One after other, thicke and high, upon the To spight a raven's heart within a dove. Skalsp. groaning shores; 2. To fill with spite ; to offend. First in herselt loud, but oppos'd with banks and So with play did he a good wbile fight against rocks, she rores, the tight of Zelmane, who, more spired with And all her backe in bristles set, spits every way her fome. that courtesy, that one that did nothing should Chapman. be able to resist her, burned away wito choler To Spit. v. n. To throw out spittle or any motions which might grow out of her own moisture of the mouth. sweet disposition. Sidsey. Very good orators, when they are here, will Darius, spited at the magi, endeavoured to spit. Sbakspeare. abolish not only their learning but their lanI dare meet Surrey, guage. Temple. And spit upon him whilst I say he lies. Shaks. The wat'ry kingdom, whose ambitious head SPI'TEFUL. adj. [spite and full.] MaliSpits in the face of heaven, is no bar cious; malignant. To stop the foreign spirits; but they come. The Jews were the deadliest and spitefulle.it Shakspeare. enemies of christianity that were in the world, He spat on the ground, made clay of the spittle, and in this respect their orders to be shunned. Hooler. and anointed the eyes of the blind man. Yohn. A maid came from her father's house to one All you have done of the tribunals of the Gentiles, and, declaring Hath been but for a wayward son, herself a Christian, spit in the judge's face. Spiteful and wrathful. Shadspeare. South. Our public form of divine service and worship A drunkard men abher, and would even spit is in every part thereof religious and holy, at him, were it not for fear he should do some- maugre the malice of spiteful wretches who have thing more than spit at them. South. depraved it. White. Spit on your tinger and thumb, and pinch the Contempt is a thing made up of an undervasnutt till the candle goes out. Szvijt. luing of a man, upon a belief of his utter use. lessness, and a spiteful endeavour to engage che SPI'TTAL. n. s. (corrupted from hospital.) rest of ihe world in the same slight esteem of A charitable foundation, In use only in him. South. the phrases, a spittal sermon, and rob The spiteful stars have shed their venom down, not the spittal. And now the peaceful planets take their turn, To Spi'TCHCOCK. v. a. To cut an eel Dryden. in pieces and roast him. Of this word I SPI'TEFULLY. adv. [from spiteful.] Mafind no good etymology. liciously ; malignantly. No man lards sale pork with orange peel, Twice false Evadne, spitefully forsworn! Or garnishes his lamb with spitchcockt eel. King. That fatal beast like this I would have torn, SPITE. 1. s. (sprit, Dutch ; despit, Fr.] W'aller. 1. Malico; rancour; hate ; malignity; Vanessa sat, malevolence. Scarce list'ning to their idle chat, Further than sometimes by a frown, This breeding rather spite than shame in her, or, it it were a shame, a shame not of the fault When they grew pert, to pull them down: but of the repulse, she did thirst for a revenge. At last she spitefully was bent To try their wisdom's full extent. Swift, Bewray they did their inward boiling spite, SPI'TEFULNESS. n. s. [from spitefu.] Each stirring others to revenge his cause. Daniel. Malice ; malignity ; desire of vexing. Done ail to spite It looks more like spitefulness and ill-nature, The great Creator ; but their site still serves than a diligent search after truth. His glory to augment. Milton. Keil against Byrnet. a a may live i use. SPI'TTED. adj. [from spit.] Shot out in- His solemne queen, whose spleene he was disto lengih. pos'd Wriether the head of a deer, that by age is To temp yet further, knowing well what anger more spitted, may be brought again to be more it inclos’d, branched. Bacos. And how wives angers should be us'd. Chapm. Spi'TER, n. s. [from spit.] If she must teem, Create her child of spleen, that 1. One who puts meat on a spit. And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her, 2. One who spits with his mouth. Sbakspeare. 3. A young deer. Ainsworth. Kind pity checks my spleen; brave scord forSPI'ITLE. n. s. [corrupted from hospital, kids and therefore better written pital, or Those tears to issue, which swell my eye-lids. Donne. spiltal.) A hospital. It is still retained All envied; but the Thestyan brethren show'd in Scotland. The least respect, and thus they vent their To the spittle go, spleen aloud : And from the powdering tub of infamy Lay down those honour'd spoils. Dryden, Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid's kind. In noble minds some dregs remain, Shakspeare. Not yet purg'd off, of spleen and sour disdain. This is it Pepe That makes the waned widow wed again; 3. A fit of anger. She whom the spittle house, and ulcerous sores, Would cast the gorge at, this embalms and spices Charge not in your spleen a noble person, And spoil your nobler soul. Sbakspeare. Brief as the lightning in the collied night, Spi'rtle.n. s. (rperlian, Sax.] Moist That in a spleen unfolds both heav'n and earth; ure of the mouth. And, ere a man hath power to say, behold! Roy. 5. Melancholy; hypochondriacal vapours. The spleen with sullen vapours clouds the brain, And never hatch'd within the lab'ring head; And binds the spirits in its heavy chain; No blood from bitten nails those poems drew, Howe'er the cause fantastick may appear, But shurn'd like spittle from the lips they flew. 'Th'effect is real, and the pain sincere. Blackm. Dryden. Splecn, vapours, and small-pox above them all. sived from the arterial blood: it is saponaceous. Pope. Bodies chang'd to recent forms by spleen. Pope. Arbutbrot. 6. Immoderate merriment. A genius for all stations fit, Whose meanest talent is his wit : They that desire the spleen, and would die with His heart too great, though fortune little, laughing. Sbakspeare. To lick a rascal statesman's spittle. *Szeift. SPLE'ENED. adj. [from spleen.] Deprived Spi'I VENOM. n. s. (spit and venom.] of the spleen. Poison ejected from the mouth. Animals spleened grow salacious. Arbutbnat. The spitvenom of their poisoned hearts SPLE'ENFUL. adj. (spleen and full.] An. breaketh out to the annoyance of others. Hooker. gry; peevish ; fretful; melancholy. SPLANCHNO'LOGY. n. s. (splanchnologie, The commons, like an angry hive of bees That want their leader, scatter up and down : Fr. σπλάγχνα and λόγΘ.] A treatise or Myself have calm'd their spleenful mutiny. description of the bowels. Dict. Shakspeare. TO SPLASH. v. a. (plaska, Swedish. The cheerful soldiers, with new stores supplied, They have both an affinity with plash.] Now long to execute their spicesful will. Dryd. To daub with dirt in great quantities. If you drink tea upon a promontory that over. hangs the sea, the whistling of the wind is betSPLA'SHY. adj. [from splash.] Full of ter musick to contented minds than the opera dirty water; apt to daub. to the spleenful. Pape. TO SPLAY. V. a. To dislocate or break SPLE'ENLESS. adj. [from spleen.] Kind; a horse's shoulder bone. gentle ; mild. Obsolete. SPLA'Y FOOT. adj. [splay, or display, and Mean time flew our ships, and streight we foot.] Having the foot turned inward. fetcht Though still some traces of our rustic vein The syrens isle; a spleenless wind so stretcht Her wings to waft us, and so urg'd our keel. And splayfoot verse remain'd, and will remain. Pope. Chapaan. SPLA'YMOUTH. n. s. [splay and mouth.] SPLE'ENWORT. n. s. (spleen and wort; Mouth widened by design. asplenion, Lat.] A plant ; miltwaste. ; All authors to their own defects are blind : The leaves and fruit are like those of Hadst thou bu., Janus-like, a face behind, the fern ; but the pinnulæ, are eared To see the people when splaymouths they make, at their basis. Miller. To mark their fingers pointed at thy back, Safe pass'd the gnome through this fantastick Their tongues lolld out a foot. Dryden. band, SPLELN. n. s. [splen, Latin.] A branch of healing spleenwort in his hand. Pope. 1. The milt; one of the viscera, of which SPLE'ENY. adj. [from spleen.] Angry ; the use is scarcely known. It is sup- peevish; humorous. And well deserving; yet I know her for Our cause. Sbakspeare. wounded. Wisemaa. SPLE'NDENT.adj. [splendens, Lat.] Shin2. Anger; spite ; ill-humour. ing; glossy; having lustre. a They assigned them names from some re Yourselves you must engage markable qualities, that is very observable in Somewhat to cool your spleniso rage, their sed and spiendent planets. Brown. Your grievous thirst; and to asswage Metallick substances may, by reason of their That first, you drink this liquor. Dragton. great density, reflect all the light incident upon STIE'NITIVE, adi. [from spleen.] Huti them, and so be as opake and splendent as it is fiery; passionate. Not in use. possible for any body to be. Newton. Take thy fingers from my throat; SPLENDID. adj. (splendide, Fr. splen For though I am not splenitive and rash, didus, Lat.) Showy; magnificent ; Splent. n. s. (or perhaps splint ; spie Yet I have in me something dangerous. Shaks. sumptuous ; pompous. Unacceptable, though in heav'n, our state nella, Italian.] Of Splendid vassalage. Milton. Splents is a callous hard substance, or an inDeep in a rich alcove the prince was laid, sensible swelling, which breeds on or adheres to And slept beneath the pompous colonade : the shank-bone of a horse, and, when it grows Fast by his side Pisistratus lay spread, big, spoils the shape of the leg. When there is In age his equal, on a splendid bed. Pope. but one, it is called a single splent; but when SPLENDIDLY. adv. [from splendid.] there is another opposite to it, on the outside of a shank-bone, it is called a pegged or pinned Magnificently; sumptuously ; pom- splent. Farrier's Dict. pously. Theii condition, though it look splendidly, yet, To SPLICE. v. a. (splisslen, Dutch ; plico, when you handle it on all sides, it will prick Latin.] To join the two ends of a rope your fingers. Taylor. without a knot. You will not admit you live splendidly, yet if Splint. n. s. [splinter, Dutch.) cannot be denied but that you live neatly and elegantly. More. 1. A fragment of wood in general. How he lives and eats, 2. A thin piece of wood, or other matter, How largely gives, how splendidly he treats, used by chirurgeons to hold the bone Dryden. newly set in its place. The ancients, after the seventh day, used Splendidly frugal, sits whole nights devoid splints, which not only kept the members steady, Of sweet repose. Philips. but straight; and of these some are made of tin, SPLE'NDOUR. n. s. (splendeur, French ; others of scabbard and wood, sowed up in linen cloths. Wiseman. splendor, Latin.) T.SPLINT. 1. Lustre; power of shining. To SPLI'NTER. v. a. (from the noun.] Splendour hath a degree of whiteness, especially if there be a bile repercussion; for a 1. To secure by splints. looking-glass, with the steel' behind, looketh This broken joint intreat her to splinter, and whiter than glass simple. Bacon, this crack of your love shall grow stronger than The dignity of gold above silver is not much; it was before. Sbakspeare. the splendour is alike, and more pleasing to some 2. To shiver; to break into fragments. eyes, as in cloth of silver. Bacon. The first symptons are a chilness, a certain SPLINTER. n. s. (splinter, Dutch.] splendour or shining in the eyes, with a little 1. A fragment of any thing broken with moisture. Arbuthnot. violence. 2. Magnificence ; pomp: He was slain upon a course at tilt, one of the Romulus, being to give laws to his new Ro- splinters of Montgomery's staff going in at his bever. Bacon. mans, found no better way to procure an esteem and reverence to them, than by first procuring Amidst whole heaps of spices lights a ball, it to himself by splendour of habit and retinue. And now their odours arm'd against them fly; South, Some preciously by shatter'd porcelain fall, "T is use alone that sanctifies expence, And some by aromatick splinters die. Dryden. And splendour borrows all her rays from sense. 2. A thin piece of wood. Pope. A plain Indian fan, used by the meaner sort, made of the small stringy parts of roots, spread SPLE'NETICK. adi. Isplenetique, French.] out in a round fat form, and so bound toge Troubled with the spleen; fretful; pee- ther with a splinter hoop, and strengthened vish. with small bars on both sides. Grew. Horace purged himself from these splenetick To SPLI'NTER. v. n. (from the noun.] reflections in odes and epodes, before he under- To be broken into fragments; to be took his satires. Dryden. shivered. This daughter silently lowers, t'other steals a kind look at you, a third is exactly well behaved, To SPLIT. v. a. pret. and part. pass. and a fourth a splenetick. Tatler. split. [spletten, splitten, Dutch.] You humour'me when I am sick; 1. To cleave; to rive; to divide longitu. Why not when I am splenetick? Pope. dinally in two. SPI.E'NICK. adj. (splenique, French; splen, Do't, and thou hast the one half of my heart; Latin.) Belonging to the spleen. Do 't not, thou split'st thine own. Sbakspeare. Suppose the spleen obstructed in its lower That self hand parts and splenick branch, a potent heat causeth Hath, with the courage which the heart did ihe orgasmus to boil. Harvey. lend it, The spleniek vein hath divers cells opening Splitted the heart. Shakspenre. into it near its extremities in human bodies; but Wert thou serv'd up two in one dish, the rather in quadrupeds the cells open into the trunks of To split thy sire into a double father ? Cleavel. the splenick veins. Ray. Cóid winter split the rocks in twain. Dryden. SPLE'NISH. adj. [from spleen.] Fretful; A skull so hard, that it is almost as easy to split peevish. a helmet of iron as to make a fracture in it. R.ly. This effort is in some earthquakes so vehe |