spurwood

Botany : Ranunculus flammula . ( Britten & Hol land .) spûr, *spurre, v. t. & i. [SPUR, 8.] A. Transitive: I. Literally : 1. To prick with spurs; to urge to a faster pace with spurs. "Resolv'd to learn, he spurr'd his fiery steed." Dryden : Palamon and Arcite , ii. 249. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. spurgall 2. To fit or furnish with spurs; to put spurs on; to attach spurs to; as, a traveler booted and spurred . II. Figuratively : 1. To urge, encourage, or incite to action; to instigate, to impel, to goad. "With their power to unsheath the taste and spur the flagging appetite."- Scribner's Magazine, August, 1887, p. 477. *2. To hasten. ( Shakesp.: Coriolanus, i. 10.) B. Intransitive: I. Lit .: To spur one's horse to make it go fast or faster; to ride fast. "But all spurd after, fast as they mote fly, To reskew her from shame full villany." II. Figuratively: 1. To pre forward. Spenser: F. Q., III. i. 18. "Some bold men, though they begin with infinite ignorance and error, yet, by spurring on, refine themselves." -Grew. 2. To urge, to impel, to incite, to instigate. "Self-interest, as we there show, spurring to action by hopes and fears." -War burton : Divine Legation , bk. i., § 4. spür-gall, v . t . [English spur , and gall .] To wound or gall with, or as with a spur. "I am ridden, Tranio, And spur - gall'd to the life of patience." Beam. & Flet.: Woman's Prize, ii. 4. spür-gall, s . [SPURGALL, V.] A place galled or excoriated by much using of the spur. spürģe, s . [O. Fr. spurger , espurger =to purge; Lat. expurgo : ex out, and pur go to purge.] Bot.: The genus Euphorbia (q. v.). spurge-flax, 8. IMG:content-0126.png:[blocks in formation] 3814