This ilke [same] monk let old things pace, And held after the new
world the space.
Chaucer.
7. (print.) (a) A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so
as not to receive the ink in printing, -- used to separate words or
letters. (b) The distance or interval between words or letters in the
lines, or between lines, as in books.
Spaces are of different thicknesses to enable the compositor to arrange
the words at equal distances from each other in the same line.
8. (Mus.) One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of
the staff.
Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian,
etc. -- Space line (Print.), a thin piece of metal used by printers to
open the lines of type to a regular distance from each other, and for
other purposes; a lead. Hansard. -- Space rule (Print.), a fine, thin,
short metal rule of the same height as the type, used in printing short
lines in tabular matter.
Space, v. i. [Cf. OF. espacier, L. spatiari. See Space, n.] To walk; to
rove; to roam. [Obs.]
And loved in forests wild to space.
Spenser.
Space, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spaced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Spacong (?).]
[Cf. F. espacer. See Space, n.] (Print.) To arrange or adjust the
spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters.
Space"ful (?), a. Wide; extensive. Sandys.
Space"less, a. Without space. Coleridge.
Spa"cial (?), a. See Spatial.
Spa"cial*ly, adv. See Spatially. Sir W. Hamilton.
Spa"cious (?), a. [L. spatiousus: cf. F. spacieux. See Space, n.] 1.
Extending far and wide; vast in extent. "A spacious plain outstretched
in circuit wide." Milton.
2. Inclosing an extended space; having large or ample room; not
contracted or narrow; capacious; roomy; as, spacious bounds; a spacious
church; a spacious hall. -- Spa"cious*ly, adv. -- Spa"cious*ness, n.
||Spa`das`sin" (?), n. [F., fr. It. spadaccino a swordsman, from spada
||a sword.] A bravo; a bully; a duelist. Ld. Lytton.