Sportive

sport'iv, adj. inclined to sport: playful: merr>’ — adv Sport ively.—«. Sport'iveneas. Sportsman, sportsman, n one who practises, or one skilled in field-f/or/j. — Sportsmanship, practice oi skill of a sportsman, Spot, spot, n a mark made by a drop of wet matter a blot a discoloured place a small part of a different colour: a small extent of space any particulai place something that sods a stain on cliaiacter or emulation.—v.t. to mark with drops of wet. to stain: to discolour: to taint to tarnish, as reputation -pr.p spotting pa and pa p spotted. (M. K spat, Scot. and l>ut. sPat, prob from the root of Spit, to thtnw out from the mouth.} Spotle , spof'les. adj without a spot untainted: pure o./r-. Spotle ly Spot'leaanesa. Spotted, sjiot'ed, Spotty, spot'i, adj, marked with sfot\ or disco lomed places. Spousal, spow/al, adj pertaining to a spouse, ot to marriage: nuptial: nnumnonul. - n usually in pt nuptials. marriage. Spouse, spow /, a husband or wife- (Lit ‘one promised in marriage,’ a betrothed person,’ O. Fr. espous Fr. Spoua, fern, fpome, -I., spans us, pa p of spondee, to pioimsc, to promise in marriage Cf. Espouse and Sponsor.) Spout, spout. to throw out, us from a pipe. to i ue with violence, as from a pipe. n. the piojecting mouth of a ve el from which a stream i ues a pipe for conducting a liquid. [Allied to Dm. pmten, re. s/j he, (torn tool of Spit to throw out Sprain, spr.in, v t" overstrain the* muscles of a joint —n an exce ive strain of the imisdcs of a joint (Lit. to strain,’ to squeeze out/ I’tte Sprawl, sprawl, v to to or kick about the limbs to Stretch the body carele ly when lying to spread ungracefully — Sprawl 'Or. (Akin to Low tier, paddebt Dan. sprtflle, to to about tlie limbs. Spray, spin, U. sin.iJJ particles of water driven by the wmd as from the top of waves, (From A S sPrexaie, to pour.] Spray, spra, a small shoot of a tree (Akin to A.S spree, Ice, sprek, a twig. Doublet Sprig Spread, spred, r to scatter abroad or all directions; to stretch to extend to overlay: to shoot out, as branches to circulate, as news to ranee to affect numbers, as a disease to diffuse to set with provisions, as a table.— v to extend or expand m all directions to be extended or stretched to lie propagated or circulated —pat and pap, spread -it. extent: (oinpa : expansion of parts. [A sprtrdan; T>ut sprriden, tier, sprvtten