Word Meanings - SPIKED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes. A youth, leaping over the spiked pales, . . . was caught by those spikes. Wiseman.

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• STOPPING
  A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air. (more info) 1. Material for filling a cavity.
• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• STOPPAGE
  The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.
• LEAPFUL
  A basketful.
• CAUGHT
  f Catch.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• LEAPER
  One who, or that which, leaps.
• LEAP YEAR
  . Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty-nine days. See Bissextile. Note: Every year whose number is divisible by four without a remainder is a leap year,
• STOPPER
  A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something. Totten. (more info) 1. One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent
• YOUTHSOME
  Youthful. Pepys.
• YOUTHY
  Young. Spectator.
• STOPPED
  Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants . H. Sweet.
• YOUTHFUL
  Also used figuratively. "The youthful season of the year." Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to the early part of life; suitable to early life; as, youthful days; youthful sports. "Warm, youthful blood." Shak. "Youthful thoughts." Milton. 3. Fresh;
• SPIKEFISH
  See SAILFISH
• PALESTRA
  palaestra, Gr. A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general. A wrestling; the exercise of wrestling.
• FURNISH
  Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to
• 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
• SPIKED
  Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes. A youth, leaping over the spiked pales, . . . was caught by those spikes. Wiseman.
• LEAPING
  from Leap, to jump. Leaping house, a brothel. Shak. -- Leaping pole, a pole used in some games of leaping. -- Leaping spider , a jumping spider; one of the Saltigradæ.
• UPCAUGHT
  Seized or caught up. " She bears upcaught a mariner away." Cowper.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• UNFASTEN
  To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.
• UNSPIKE
  To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon.
• COPPER-FASTENED
  Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
• DISFURNISH
  To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.
• OUTLEAP
  To surpass in leaping.
• HANDSPIKE
  A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.