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2. To cast forth with abhorrence or disgust; to eject.

Because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew thee out of my mouth.

Rev. ii. 16.

Spew, v. i. 1. To vomit. Chaucer.

2. To eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost.

Spew, n. That which is vomited; vomit.

Spew"er (?), n. One who spews.

Spew"i*ness (?), n. The state of being spewy.

Spew"y (?), a. Wet; soggy; inclined to spew.

Sphac"el (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?;: cf. F. sphacèle.] (Med.) Gangrene.

Sphac"e*late (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sphacelated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sphacelating.] [NL. sphacelare, sphacelatum, mortify: cf. F. sphacéler. See Sphacelus.] (Med.) To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.

Sphac"e*late, v. t. (Med.) To affect with gangrene.

{ Sphac"e*late (?), Sphac"e*la`ted (?), } a. (Med.) Affected with gangrene; mortified.

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Sphac`e*la"tion (?), n. (Med.) The process of becoming or making gangrenous; mortification.

||Sphac"e*lus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?;.] (Med.) Gangrenous ||part; gangrene; slough.

||Sphæ*ren"chy*ma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?; sphere + -enchyma as ||in parenchima.] (Bot.) Vegetable tissue composed of thin-walled ||rounded cells, -- a modification of parenchyma.

||Sphæ*rid"i*um (?), n.; pl. Sphæridia (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?; a ||sphere.] (Zoöl.) A peculiar sense organ found upon the exterior of ||most kinds of sea urchins, and consisting of an oval or sherical head ||surmounting a short pedicel. It is generally supposed to be an ||olfactory organ.

Sphæ"ro*spore (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; sphere + E. spore.] (Bot.) One of the nonsexual spores found in red algæ; a tetraspore.

Sphær"u*lite (?), n. (Min.) Same as Spherulite.

Sphag*nic"o*lous (?), a. [Sphagnum + L. colere to inhabit.] (Bot.) Growing in moss of the genus Sphagnum.

Sphag"nous (?), a. (Bot.) Pertaining to moss of the genus Sphagnum, or bog moss; abounding in peat or bog moss.

||Sphag"num (?), n. [NL., fr/ Gr. &?;&?;&?; a kind of moss.] (Bot.) A ||genus of mosses having white leaves slightly tinged with red or green ||and found growing in marshy places; bog moss; peat moss.

Sphal"er*ite (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; slippery, uncertain. See Blende.] (Min.) Zinc sulphide; -- called also blende, black-jack, false galena, etc. See Blende (a).

Sphene (?), n. [F. sphène, fr. Gr. sfh`n a wedge.] (Min.) A mineral found usually in thin, wedge-shaped crystals of a yellow or green to black color. It is a silicate of titanium and calcium; titanite.

Sphe*neth"moid (?), a. [Sphenoid + ethmoid.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the sphenoidal and the ethmoidal regions of the skull, or the sphenethmoid bone; sphenethmoidal.

Sphenethmoid bone (Anat.), a bone of the skull which surrounds the anterior end of the brain in many amphibia; the girdle bone.

Sphe*neth"moid, n. (Anat.) The sphenethmoid bone.