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[Eng. spavin; -ed.] Affected with spavin. IMG:content-1780.png:[blocks in formation] spaw-děr, subst. [Etym. doubtful.] An injury arising from the legs of animals being forced too far asunder on ice or slippery roads. (Prov.) spawl, v. i. & t. [A. S. spætl =spittle.] [SPIT (2), υ.] A. In trans .: To eject saliva from the mouth in a scattered manner; to disperse spittle about in a carele , dirty manner. "He spits and spawls , and turns like sick men from one elbow to another."-Sir T. Over bury: Characters, G. 4, b. (1627). B. Trans.: To eject as spittle or saliva. "That 'twixt a wiffe, a line or two rehearse, And with their rheume together, spawle a verse." F. Beaumont: Elegy upon Mr. Francis Beaumont . spawl (1), s . [SPALL.] spawl (2), subst. [SPAWL, v.] Spittle or saliva ejected carele ly. "First of spittle she lustration makes; Then in the spawl her middle finger dips, Anoints the temples." Dryden: Persius, sat. ii. spawl-ing, *spâul-ing, subst . (SPAWL, v .] Spittle, saliva. "Whose marble floors, with drunken spawlings shine." Congreve: Juvenal, sat. xi.