spawn, spawne

[Etym. doubtful. Perhaps from O. Fr. espandre to shed, spill, pour out, or scatter; Lat.expando =to spread out.] [EXPAND.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Lit .: In the same sense as II. "When the spawns on stones do lye." Beaum, & Flet .: Faithful Shepherde , iii. 2. Fig .: Any product or offspring. (Used as a term of contempt.) "A spawn of all vices and villanies, a deluge of all mis chief and outrages."-Water land: Works, vi. 282. IMG:content-1781.png:[blocks in formation] speakable spāy, v . t . [Manx spoiy ; Gael. spoth =to cas trate; cf. Latin spado a eunuch.] To castrate (female animals); to extirpate the ovaries of; a proce applied to female animals to prevent con ception and promote fattening. "The dogs run into corners, the spayed bitch Bays at his back and howls."