speluncous (spelungkus)

[ Icel. spenna ), a secondary form of AS. span nan, span: see span1. Cf. spend2.] To stretch; grasp; span. Bifore that spot my honde I spenn [e]d. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 49. spencer, spencert, See spense, sense (spen'sèr), n. [Named after Earl Spencer (1782-1845). The surname is derived from spencer1, spenser.] 1. A man's outer garment or overcoat so short that the skirts of the body-coat worn under it were seen: a fashion introduced about 1800.-2. A woman's garment introduced a year or two later, and made in direct imitation of the above. It also was short, and formed a kind of over-jacket, reaching a little below the waist. spencer3 (spen'sėr), n. Naut., a trapezoidal fore-and-aft sail set abaft the foremast and mainmast; a trysail.