spessartine, spessartite

[After Spe art, Bavaria, where first found; suff. -ine, -ite ( Min.); Ger.spe artit.] Min.: A variety of Garnet (q. v.) containing a large percentage of protoxide of manganese. Dana makes this a special subdivision of the Garnet group. Color, dark hyacinth-red with shades of violet. Found (among a few other localities) in large crystals at Haddam, Connecticut. IMG:content-0022.png:[blocks in formation] *spět-tle, s . [SPITTLE.] ( Baret .) *spē-tům, s. [Low Lat.] Old Arm .: A kind of spear used in the fifteenth and of narrower form. (See illustration century. It differed from the partizan only in being under Spear.) IMG:content-0023.png:[blocks in formation] "Keep my statutes, and commit not any of these abominations, that the land spew you not out."- Levitic us xviii. 28. B. In trans.: To vomit; to discharge the contents of the stomach. "If thou hast founden hony, ete of it that sufficeth; for if thou ete of it out of mesure, thou shalt spew , and be nedy and poure." -Chaucer : Tale of Melibœus. spew (ew as u), spue, subst. [SPEW, v.] Vomit; that which is ejected from the stomach.