Word Meanings - SPICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A spike or nail. Spick and span, quite new; that is, as new as a spike or nail just made and a chip just split; brand- new; as, a spick and span novelty. See Span-new. Howell.

Related words: (words related to SPICK)

• BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
  See WORM
• BRAND IRON
  1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
• SPLIT INFINITIVE
  A simple infinitive with to, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive.
• HOWELL
  The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.
• SPLITFEET
  The Fissipedia.
• SPLIT SWITCH
  = Point switch.
• SPLIT-TAIL
  A california market fish belonging to the Carp family. The pintail duck.
• SPLIT SHOT; SPLIT STROKE
  In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact.
• BRANDER
  1. One who, or that which, brands; a branding iron. 2. A gridiron.
• SPLIT DYNAMOMETER
  An electric dynamometer having two coils so arranged that one carries the primary current, and the other the secondary current, of a transformer.
• BRANDLE
  To shake; to totter.
• NOVELTY
  1. The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction. Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. South. 2. Something novel; a new or strange thing.
• SPLIT WHEEL
  = Split pulley.
• BRANDYWINE
  Brandy. Wiseman.
• SPLIT STITCH
  A stitch used in stem work to produce a fine line, much used in old church embroidery to work the hands and faces of figures.
• SPICK
  A spike or nail. Spick and span, quite new; that is, as new as a spike or nail just made and a chip just split; brand- new; as, a spick and span novelty. See Span-new. Howell.
• SPLIT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, as that of snakes and some lizards.
• BRAND-NEW
  Quite new; bright as if fresh from the forge.
• SPIKEFISH
  See SAILFISH
• SPIKENARD
  An aromatic plant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for
• SESQUITERTIAL
  Sesquitertian.
• SESQUITERTIAN; SESQUITERTIANAL
  Having the ratio of one and one third to one .
• MESQUITE BEAN
  The pod or seed of the mesquite.
• PEPPERBRAND
  See BUNT
• UNSPIKE
  To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon.
• FIREBRAND
  1. A piece of burning wood. L'Estrange. 2. One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary. Bacon.
• MISPICKEL
  Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite.
• MESQUITE; MESQUIT
  A name for two trees of the southwestern part of North America, the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite. Honey mesquite. See Algaroba . -- Screw-pod mesquite, a smaller tree , having spiral pods used as fodder and sometimes as food
• PHASE SPLITTER
  A device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase. It is used in starting single-phase induction motors.
• EAR-SPLITTING
  Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains.