<B>spirited, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>full of energy and spirit; lively; dashing; bold. <BR> <I>Ex. a spirited race horse. He entered into a spirited discussion concerning the relative merits of the imperishable Master of Baker Street (Anthony Boucher).</I> (SYN) animated, mettlesome. <DD><B> 2. </B>having a spirit or spirits. <BR> <I>Ex. good-spirited, mean-spirited, low-spirited.</I> adv. <B>spiritedly.</B> noun <B>spiritedness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="spiritgum">
<B>spirit gum,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a quick-drying preparation of gum used by actors and others to glue false hair to the head or face. </DL>
<B>spirit lamp,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a lamp in which alcohol is burned. </DL>
<A NAME="spiritless">
<B>spiritless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>without spirit or courage; without vigor; depressed; dejected. <BR> <I>Ex. tired, spiritless soldiers.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>without liveliness; not spirited; tame. <BR> <I>Ex. The evening was passed in spiritless conversation (Fanny Burney).</I> adv. <B>spiritlessly.</B> noun <B>spiritlessness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="spiritlevel">
<B>spirit level,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an instrument used to find out whether a surface is level, using an air bubble in a liquid-filled glass tube. When the air bubble is exactly in the middle of the tube, the surface is level. </DL>
<B>spiritous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Archaic.) like an essence or distilled product; pure. <DD><B> 2. </B>alcoholic; spirituous. </DL>
<A NAME="spiritrapping">
<B>spirit rapping,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> rapping or knocking, believed to be a form of communication from or with spirits. </DL>
<A NAME="spirits">
<B>spirits, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>spirit.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="spirits">
<B>spirits</B> or <B>spirit of hartshorn,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a water solution of ammonia. </DL>
<A NAME="spirits">
<B>spirits</B> or <B>spirit of turpentine,</B> <B>=oil of turpentine.</B></DL>
<A NAME="spirits">
<B>spirits</B> or <B>spirit of wine,</B> <B>=alcohol.</B></DL>
<A NAME="spiritual">
<B>spiritual, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having something to do with the spirit or soul. <BR> <I>Ex. an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace given unto us (Book of Common Prayer).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>caring much for things of the spirit or soul. <BR> <I>Ex. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force (Emerson).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>of or having to do with spirits; supernatural. <BR> <I>Ex. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen (Milton).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>of or having to do with the church. <BR> <I>Ex. spiritual lords.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>sacred; religious. <BR> <I>Ex. spiritual writings, a spiritual order. A minister is a spiritual leader.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a religious song which originated among the Negroes of the southern United States. <BR> <I>Ex. While the Negro was being assimilated, however, America was adding such Negro contributions as jazz music and spirituals to its cultural store (Ogburn and Nimkoff).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>spirituals,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>matters primarily concerning religion or the church. </I> <I>Ex. The civil power does best absolutely and unreservedly to ignore spirituals (John Morley).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>spiritual matters, affairs, or ideas. <BR> <I>Ex. He [Dante] assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals (James Russell Lowell).</I> adv. <B>spiritually.</B> noun <B>spiritualness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="spiritualbouquet">
<B>spiritual bouquet,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a card listing prayers, Masses, or good works done in behalf of a living or dead person, sent by Roman Catholics on special occasions. </DL>
<B>spiritualism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the belief that the spirits of the dead can communicate with the living, especially through persons called mediums; spiritism. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Philosophy.) the doctrine or belief that spirit alone is real. <DD><B> 3. </B>spiritual quality; emphasis or insistence on the spiritual. <BR> <I>Ex. He often checked Seth's argumentative spiritualism by saying "Eh, it's a big mystery" (George Eliot).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="spiritualist">
<B>spiritualist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person who believes that the dead communicate with the living. <DD><B> 2. </B>a believer in or adherent of spiritualism as a philosophical doctrine. <DD><B> 3. </B>a person who sees or interprets things from a spiritual point of view. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=spiritualistic.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="spiritualistic">
<B>spiritualistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with spiritualism or spiritualists. </DL>
<A NAME="spirituality">
<B>spirituality, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>devotion to spiritual things instead of worldly things. <BR> <I>Ex. Prayer is, undoubtedly, the life and soul of spirituality (John Jebb).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the fact or quality of being spiritual; being neither corporeal nor material. <BR> <I>Ex. That He is invisible is accounted for by His spirituality (James Tait).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Archaic.) the clergy. <BR> <I>Ex. He blamed both spirituality and laity (John Strype).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>spiritualities,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>spiritual things. </I> <I>Ex. So these pretended successors ofPeter ... have notoriously imitated that example of Simon in buying and selling spiritualities (Henry More).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>properties or revenues of the church or of a clergyman in his official capacity. <BR> <I>Ex. Their spiritualities, the tithes and oblations, were not to be taxed (William Stubbs).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="spiritualize">
<B>spiritualize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to make spiritual. <DD><B> 2. </B>to give a spiritual sense or meaning to. <BR> <I>Ex. The works of Richardson ... are romances as they would be spiritualized by a Methodist preacher (Horace Walpole).</I> noun <B>spiritualization.</B> noun <B>spiritualizer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="spirituals">
<B>spirituals, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>spiritual.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="spiritualty">
<B>spiritualty, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>Often, <B>spiritualties.</B> the property or revenue of the church or of a clergyman. <DD><B> 2. </B>the clergy. </DL>
<A NAME="spirituel">
<B>spirituel, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> showing a refined mind or wit. </DL>
<B>spirituous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having to do with, containing, or like alcohol; alcoholic. <BR> <I>Ex. spirituous liquors.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>distilled, not fermented. noun <B>spirituousness.</B> </DL>
<B>spirit varnish,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a varnish made of resins that are dissolved in a quickly-evaporating solvent such as alcohol. </DL>
<A NAME="spiritwrestlers">
<B>spirit wrestlers,</B> <B>=Doukhobors.</B></DL>
<A NAME="spirity">
<B>spirity, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> full of spirit, animation, energy, or vivacity; spirited. <BR> <I>Ex. He is a most active, spirity man, and by his great mental exercises keeps himself from anything like a lethargy (Lord Malmesbury).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="spirket">
<B>spirket, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a space forward or aft between the floor timbers of a ship </DL>
<A NAME="spirketing">
<B>spirketing</B> or <B>spirketting, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the inside planking between the waterways and the ports of a ship. </DL>
<A NAME="spirochetal">
<B>spirochetal</B> or <B>spirochaetal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with spirochetes. </DL>
<A NAME="spirochete">
<B>spirochete</B> or <B>spirochaete, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a large group of active bacteria. They are slender, spiral, very flexible, and able to expand and contract. One kind causes syphilis, and another causes relapsing fever. The spirochetes comprise an order of bacteria. </DL>
<A NAME="spirocheticide">
<B>spirocheticide</B> or <B>spirochaeticide, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an agent for destroying spirochetes. </DL>
<A NAME="spirochetosis">
<B>spirochetosis</B> or <B>spirochaetosis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an infectious, often fatal, blood disease of poultry and other birds, caused by a spirochete. </DL>
<A NAME="spirogram">
<B>spirogram, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a graphic record of a person's lung capacity made by a spirometer. </DL>
<A NAME="spirograph">
<B>spirograph, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an instrument for recording respiratory movements. </DL>
<A NAME="spirographic">
<B>spirographic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a spirograph. </DL>
<A NAME="spirogyra">
<B>spirogyra, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a large group of green algae that grow in masses like scum in freshwater ponds or tanks. The cells have one or more bands of chlorophyll winding spirally to the right. The spirogyras comprise a genus of plants. </DL>
<A NAME="spiroid">
<B>spiroid, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> tending to be spiral in form; like a spiral. <BR> <I>Ex. a spiroid curve, a spiroid shell.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="spirometer">
<B>spirometer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an instrument for measuring the capacity of the lungs, by the amount of air that can be breathed out after the lungs have been filled as full as possible. </DL>
<A NAME="spirometric">
<B>spirometric, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the spirometer or spirometry. </DL>
<A NAME="spirometry">
<B>spirometry, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the measurement of breathing power or lung capacity. <DD><B> 2. </B>the use of the spirometer. </DL>
