An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

Spayman, Spaman, s.
1. A prophet, a diviner.
Bellenden.
2. A male fortuneteller, S.
Kelly.

Isl. spamadr; Dan. spaamand, vates.

Spaywife, s. A female fortuneteller, S.
Ferguson.

Isl. spakona, Dan. spaakone, q. a spay-quean.

SPAIG, s. A skeleton, Clydes.

Teut. spoocke, Su. G. spok, phantasma.

SPAIK, SPAKE, s.
1. The spoke of a wheel, S.
Douglas.
2. A bar (or lever) of wood.
Acts Ja. III.

Teut. spaecke, vectis; radius rotae.

3. In pl. the wooden bars, on which a dead body is carried to the grave, S.
Spalding.
4. Metaph. a personal designation, S.
Lyndsay.

SPAIL, s.
V. [Spale].