spewingt (spuing)

Same as spewy. The soil [in New England] for the general is a warm kind of Earth, there being little cold spewing Land. S. Clarke, Four Plantations in America (1670), p. 29. [See also the quotation under emus cation .] spewył (spū'i), a . [ spew + -y1.] Wet; boggy; moist; damp. The lower valleys in wet winters are so spewy that they know not how to feed them. Mortimer, Husbandry. Speyside pine. See pinel. to the family Physeteridæ (which see for technical characters; see also cut of skull under sphacel (sfas'el), n. [ Physeter). It is one of the largest of animals, exceeded in length only by the great rorqual or finner, Balænoptera sibbaldi; it has teeth in the lower jaw, but none and no baleen in the upper; and the enormous square head contains the valuable product spermaceti. This whale is also the source of the best whale-oil, and its chase is a very important industry in the warmer waters of all seas. See cachalot.-Porpoise sperm-whale, a pygmy sperm whale, or snub-nosed cachalot, of the family Physeteridæ and genus Kogia, as K. brevirostris ( K. flower i of Gill), of the Pacific and chiefly tropical seas, but sometimes occur ring off the coast of the United States. - Sperm-whale porpoise, a bottle-nosed whale of the genus Hyperoödon. It belongs to the same family ( Physeterida ) as the sperm whale, but to a different subfamily. (See Ziphiinæ.) The species are several, not well determined, and with confused synonymy. They are larger than any porpoises properly so called, though far inferior in size to the true sperm-whale. speront, n. [ Which barks are made after the maner of Fusts or Galliots, with a Speron and a couered poope. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 215. sperrt, v. t. Same as sparl. sperrablet, n. An obsolete form of sparable. sperrylite (sper'i-lit), n. [Named after F. L. Sperry, the discoverer.] A native arsenide of platinum, occurring in minute isometric crystals with pyrite and chalcopyrite at the Vermilion mine, near Sudbury ary in Ontario. It has a tin-white color, brilliant metallic luster, and a specific gravity of 10.6. It is the only compound of platinum known to occur in nature.