Sophroniscum relinquemus;
Et Euclidem comburemus,
Ejus vi soluti.
Pow-wow of Class of '58, Yale Coll.
See BALBUS.
SPIRT. Among the students at the University of Cambridge, Eng., an extraordinary effort of mind or body for a short time. A boat's crew make a spirt, when they pull fifty yards with all the strength they have left. A reading-man makes a spirt when he crams twelve hours daily the week before examination.—Bristed.
As my … health was decidedly improving, I now attempted a "spirt," or what was one for me.—Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 223.
My amateur Mathematical coach, who was now making his last spirt for a Fellowship, used to accompany me.—Ibid., p. 288.
He reads nine hours a day on a "spirt" the fortnight before examination.—Ibid., p. 327.
SPIRTING. Making an extraordinary effort of mind or body for a short time.—Bristed.
Ants, bees, boat-crews spirting at the Willows,… are but faint types of their activity.—Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 224.
SPLURGE. In many colleges, when one is either dashy, or dressed more than ordinarily, he is said to cut a splurge. A showy recitation is often called by the same name. In his Dictionary of Americanisms, Mr. Bartlett defines it, "a great effort, a demonstration," which is the signification in which this word is generally used.
SPLURGY. Showy; of greater surface than depth. Applied to a lesson which is well rehearsed but little appreciated. Also to literary efforts of a certain nature, to character, persons, &c.