They are no sportful productions of the soil.
Bentley.
-- Sport"ful*ly, adv. -- Sport"ful*ness, n.
Sport"ing, a. Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts;
exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports.
Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations,
and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house frequented by
sportsmen, gamblers, and the like. -- Sporting man, one who practices
field sports; also, a horse racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like.
-- Sporting plant (Bot.), a plant in which a single bud or offset
suddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very different, character from
that of the rest of the plant. Darwin.
Sport"ing*ly, adv. In sport; sportively.
The question you there put, you do it, I suppose, but sportingly.
Hammond.
Sport"ive (?), a. Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay;
froliscome; playful; merry.
Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court?
Shak.
-- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
Sport"less, a. Without sport or mirth; joyless.
Sport"ling (?), n. A little person or creature engaged in sports or in
play.
When again the lambkins play -- Pretty sportlings, full of May.
Philips.
Sports"man (?), n.;pl. Sportsmen (&?;). One who pursues the sports of
the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc.
Sports"man*ship, n. The practice of sportsmen; skill in field sports.
||Spor"tu*la (?), n.; pl. Sportulæ (&?;). [L.] A gift; a present; a
||prize; hence, an alms; a largess.
To feed luxuriously, to frequent sports and theaters, to run for
the sportula.
South.
Spor"tu*la*ry (?), a. Subsisting on alms or charitable contributions.
[Obs.] Bp. Hall.
Spor"tule (?), n. [L. sportula a little basket, a gift, dim. of sporta
a basket: cf. F. sortule.] A charitable gift or contribution; a gift;
an alms; a dole; a largess; a sportula. [Obs.] Ayliffe.
Spor`u*la"tion (?), n. (Biol.) The act or process of forming spores;
spore formation. See Illust. of Bacillus, b.
Spor"ule (?), n. [Dim. of spore.] (Biol.) A small spore; a spore.
Spor`u*lif"er*ous (?), a. [Sporule + -ferous.] (Biol.) Producing
sporules.
Spot (?), n. [Cf. Scot. & D. spat, Dan. spette, Sw. spott spittle,
slaver; from the root of E. spit. See Spit to eject from the mouth, and
cf. Spatter.] 1. A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter;
a blot; a place discolored.
Out, damned spot! Out, I say!
Shak.
2. A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity;
disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
Yet Chloe, sure, was formed without a spot.
Pope.
3. A small part of a different color from the main part, or from the
ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a
playing card.
4. A small extent of space; a place; any particular place. "Fixed to
one spot." Otway.
That spot to which I point is Paradise.
Milton.
"A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! But something ails it
now: the spot is cursed."
Wordsworth.
5. (Zoöl.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a
spot on its head just above its beak.
6. (Zoöl.) (a) A sciænoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the
Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the
shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also
goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife. (b) The southern redfish, or
red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See
Redfish.
7. pl. Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate
delivery. [Broker's Cant]
Crescent spot (Zoöl.), any butterfly of the family Melitæidæ having
crescent- shaped white spots along the margins of the red or brown
wings. - - Spot lens (Microscopy), a condensing lens in which the light
is confined to an annular pencil by means of a small, round diaphragm
(the spot), and used in dark-field ilumination; -- called also spotted
lens. -- Spot rump (Zoöl.), the Hudsonian godwit (Limosa hæmastica). --
Spots on the sun. (Astron.) See Sun spot, ander Sun. -- On, or Upon,
the spot, immediately; before moving; without changing place.
It was determined upon the spot.
Swift. Syn. -- Stain; flaw; speck; blot; disgrace; reproach; fault;
blemish; place; site; locality.
Spot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Spotting.] 1. To
make visible marks upon with some foreign matter; to discolor in or
with spots; to stain; to cover with spots or figures; as, to spot a
garnment; to spot paper.
2. To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to
detect; as, to spot a criminal. [Cant]
3. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as
reputation; to asperse.
My virgin life no spotted thoughts shall stain.
Sir P. Sidney.
If ever I shall close these eyes but once, May I live spotted for
my perjury.
Beau. & Fl.
To spot timber, to cut or chip it, in preparation for hewing.
Spot, v. i. To become stained with spots.
Spot"less, a. Without a spot; especially, free from reproach or
impurity; pure; untainted; innocent; as, a spotless mind; spotless
behavior.
A spotless virgin, and a faultless wife.
Waller.
Syn. -- Blameless; unspotted; unblemished; pure; immaculate;
irreproachable. See Blameless.
-- Spot"less*ly, adv. -- Spot"less*ness, n.
Spot"ted, a. Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character.
"The spotted panther." Spenser.
Spotted fever (Med.), a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp.
to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis. -- Spotted tree (Bot.),
an Australian tree (Flindersia maculosa); -- so called because its bark
falls off in spots.
Spot"ted*ness, n. State or quality of being spotted.
Spot"ter (?), n. One who spots.
Spot"ti*ness (?), n. The state or quality of being spotty.
Spot"ty (?), a. Full of spots; marked with spots.
Spous"age (?; 48), n. [OF. espousaige, from espouser. See Spouse, v.
t.] Espousal. [Obs.] Bale.
Spous"al (?), a. [See Espousal, Sponsal, and Spouse.] Of or pertaining
to a spouse or marriage; nuptial; matrimonial; conjugal; bridal; as,
spousal rites; spousal ornaments. Wordsworth.
Spous"al, n. [See Espousal, Spouse.] Marriage; nuptials; espousal; --
generally used in the plural; as, the spousals of Hippolita. Dryden.
Boweth your head under that blissful yoke . . . Which that men
clepeth spousal or wedlock.
Chaucer.
the spousals of the newborn year.
Emerson.
Spouse (?), n. [OF. espous, espos, fem. espouse, F. époux, épouse, fr.
L. sponsus, sponsa, prop. p. p. of spondere, sponsum, to promise
solemnly, to engage one's self. Cf. Despond, Espouse, respond,
Sponsor.] 1. A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married
person, husband or wife.
At last such grace I found, and means I wrought, That that lady to
my spouse had won.
Spenser.
2. A married man, in distinct from a spousess or married woman; a
bridegroom or husband. [Obs.]
At which marriage was [were] no person present but the spouse, the
spousess, the Duchess of Bedford her mother, the priest, two
gentlewomen, and a young man.
Fabyan.
Spouse (?), v. t. [See Espouse, and Spouse, n.] To wed; to espouse.
[Obs.]
This markis hath her spoused with a ring.
Chaucer.
Though spoused, yet wanting wedlock's solemnize.
Spenser.
She was found again, and spoused to Marinell.
Spenser.