Spoon

spōōn, n. an instrument with a shallow bowl and handle for use in preparing, serving, or in eating food: anything like a spoon or its bowl, as an oar: in golf, a wooden-headed club of varying length, having the face more or le spooned, used in approaching the holes from varying distances.— v.t. to use a spoon upon: to lie spoon fashion with.— v.i. to fish with a spoon-hook: in croquet, to shove or scoop with the mallet: to be foolishly fond, to indulge in endearments openly.— ns. Spoon′-bait , a revolving metallic lure attached to a fishing-line by a swivel, used in trolling for fish; Spoon′bill , a family of birds ( Plataleidæ ) allied to the Ibididæ , and more distantly to the storks, with a bill long, flat, and broad throughout, and much dilated in a spoon form at the tip; Spoon′-drift , light spray borne on a gale; Spoon′ful , as much as fills a spoon: a small quantity:— pl. Spoon′fuls .— adv. Spoon′ily , in a spoony or silly way.— n. Spoon′meat , food taken with a spoon, such as is given to young children.— adv. Spoon′ways , applied to a way of packing slaves in ships very closely together.— adjs. Spoon′y , Spoon′ey , silly, weakly affectionate, foolishly fond.— n. a simple fellow: one foolishly fond of a sweetheart.— Apostle spoon (see Apostle ); De ert-spoon (see De ert ); Eucharistic spoon , the cochlear or labis; Tablespoon (see Table ).— Be spoons on , to be silly in the manifestation of one's love for a woman. [A.S. spón ; Ger. span , a chip, Ice. spánn , a chip, a spoon.]