spetch (spech)

[A ibilated form of speck1.] A piece of skin or hide used in making glue: as, size made from buffalo - spetches. spetoust, a. See spitous. spew (spū), v. [Formerly also spue; Then he gan to spewe , and up he threwe The balsa me all againe. Robin Hood and the Peddlers (Child's Ballads, V. 248). 2. In gun ., to run at the mouth: said of a gun which bends at the chase, or whose muzzle droops, from too quick firing. II. trans. 1. To vomit; puke up or out; eject from or as if from the stomach. So then because thou art lukewarm thee out of my mouth. I will spue Rev. iii. 16. 2. To eject as if by retching or heaving; send or cast forth from within; drive by internal force or effort: often used figuratively. That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you. Lev. xviii. 28. sp. gr. An abbreviation of specific gravity. Same as sphacelus. sphacela (sfas'e-lä), n.; pl. sphacelæ (-lē). [