SPEW, SPUE, sp[=u], _v.t._ and _v.i._ to vomit: to eject with
loathing.--_ns._ SPEW'ER; SPEW'INESS, moistness.--_adj._ SPEW'Y, boggy.
[A.S. _spíwan_; Dut. _spuwen_, Ger. _speien_; also L. _spu[)e]re_, Gr.
_ptyein_.]
SPHACELUS, sfas'e-lus, _n._ gangrene.--_adjs._ SPHAC'ELATE, -D,
necrosed.--_ns._ SPHACEL[=A]'TION, SPHACELIS'MUS, necrosis; SPHACEL[=O]'MA,
a genus of fungi containing _anthracnose_. [Gr. _sphakelos_.]
SPHÆRIDIUM, sf[=e]-rid'i-um, _n._ one of the minute spheroidal bodies
attached to the ambulacral plates of sea-urchins:--_pl._ SPHÆRID'IA. [Gr.
_sphairidion_, dim. of _sphaira_, a sphere.]
SPHÆRISTERIUM, sf[=e]-ris-t[=e]'ri-um, _n._ a tennis-court.
[Gr.,--_sphaira_, a ball.]
SPHÆRITE, sf[=e]'r[=i]t, _n._ a hydrous phosphate of aluminium.
SPHAGNUM, sfag'num, _n._ a genus of mosses--peat or bog-moss, belonging to
the order _Sphagnaceæ_.--_ns._ SPHAGNOL'OGIST, one who has studied the
foregoing; SPHAGNOL'OGY, the study of the same.--_adj._ SPHAG'NOUS. [Gr.
_sphagnos_, moss.]
SPHECIUS, sf[=e]'shi-us, _n._ a genus of digger-wasps. [Gr. _sph[=e]x_, a
wasp.]
SPHENDONE, sfen'd[=o]-n[=e], _n._ an ancient Greek form of women's
head-band: an elliptical or semi-elliptical auditorium. [Gr., a sling.]