Spurred corolla (Bot.), a corolla in which there are one or more petals
with a spur.
Spur"rer (?), n. One who spurs.
Spur"rey (?), n. (Bot.) See Spurry.
Spur"ri*er (?), n. One whose occupation is to make spurs. B. Jonson.
"The saddlers and spurriers would be ruined by thousands." Macaulay.
Spur"-roy`al (?), n. A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward
IV., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. In
the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen
shillings. [Written also spur-rial, and spur-ryal.]
Spur"ry (?), n. [D. or OF. spurrie; cf. G. spergel, NL. spergula.]
(Bot.) An annual herb (Spergula arvensis) with whorled filiform leaves,
sometimes grown in Europe for fodder. [Written also spurrey.]
Sand spurry (Bot.), any low herb of the genus Lepigonum, mostly found
in sandy places.
Spur"-shell` (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of handsome
gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is
conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur.
Spurt (?), v. i. [Written also spirt, and originally the same word as
sprit; OE. sprutten to sprout, AS. spryttan. See Sprit, v. i., Sprout,
v. i.] To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as
liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or
jet; to spirt.
Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, Spurts in the
gardener's eyes who turns the cock.
Pope.
Spurt, v. t. To throw out, as a liquid, in a stream or jet; to drive or
force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as,
to spurt water from the mouth.
Spurt, n. 1. A sudden or violent ejection or gushing of a liquid, as of
water from a tube, orifice, or other confined place, or of blood from a
wound; a jet; a spirt.