spew (ew as u)

[Eng. spew; -y.] Wet, damp, boggy. "The lower vallies in wet winters are so spewy , that they know not how to feed them." -Mortimer : Hus bandry . sphăç-ěl, s . [SPHACELUS.] Gangrene. sphăç-ě-lär-I-a, subst . [Mod. Lat., from Lat. sphacelus (q. v.). Named from the gangrene-looking fructification.] Bot .: The typical genus of Sphacelaride. Jointed, rigid, distichously-branched, feathery, filamentous fronds, of olive color, with an expanded terminal cell, containing a granular ma . sphăç-ě-lăr-i-dæ, s . pl . [Mod. Latin sphace lar ( ia ); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -idæ .] Bot.: A family of Fucacese, tribe Halyserem. [SPHACELARIA.] *sphăç-ěl-āte, v . i . & t . [SPHACEL.] A. Intransitive : 1. To become gangrenous, as flesh; to mortify. "The skin, by the great distention, having been rendered very thin, will, if not taken away, sphacelate , and the rest degenerate into a cancerous ulcer." -Sharp : Sur