Space, spās, n. extension as distinct from material substances: room: largeness: distance between objects: interval between lines or words in books: quantity of time: distance between two points of time: opportunity, leisure: a short time: interval.—v.t. to make or arrange intervals between.—ns. Spā′cer, one who, or that which, spaces: an instrument by which to reverse a telegraphic current, esp. in a marine cable, for increasing the speed of transmission: a space-bar; Space′-writ′er, in journalism, one paid for his articles according to the space they occupy when printed; Spā′cing, the act of dividing into spaces, placing at suitable intervals, as in printing, &c.: the space thus made: spaces collectively.—adj. Spā′cious, having large space: large in extent: roomy: wide.—adv. Spā′ciously.—n. Spā′ciousness. [Fr. espace—L. spatium; Gr. spān.]
Spacial=Spatial (q.v.).
Spadassin, spad′a-sin, n. a swordsman, a bravo. [Fr.,—It. spadaccino—spada, a sword.]
Spade, spād, n. a broad blade of iron with a handle, used for digging: a playing-card of one of the two black suits, shaped like a heart with a triangular handle.—v.t. to dig with a spade.—ns. Spade′-bone, the scapula; Spade′-foot, a scaphiopod or spade-footed toad; Spade′ful, as much as a spade will hold; Spade′-guin′ea, a guinea coined 1787-99, so called from the shield on the reverse side having the shape of the spade in playing-cards.—Call a spade a spade, to call things by their plain names, without softening: to speak out plainly. [A.S. spadu, spædu; L. spatha—Gr. spathē, any broad blade.]
Spade, spād, n. a eunuch: a gelding.—Also Spā′do. [Gr. spadōn, a eunuch.]
Spadille, spa-dil′, n. the ace of spades in the games of ombre and quadrille.—Also Spadil′io. [Fr.,—Sp. espadilla, dim. of espada, the ace of spades.]
Spadix, spā′diks, n. (bot.) a fleshy spike of flowers, usually covered by a leaf called a spathe:—pl. Spādī′ces.—adjs. Spādic′eous, Spad′icose. [Gr.]
Spadone, spa-dō′nē, n. a long heavy sword for both hands.—Also Spadroon′. [It.]
Spae, spā, v.i. and v.t. (Scot.) to foretell, divine—also Spay.—ns. Spae′man; Spā′er; Spae′wife, [Scand., Ice. spá; Ger. spähen, to spy.]
Spaghetti, spa-get′ti, n. an Italian cord-like paste intermediate in size between macaroni and vermicelli. [It., pl. of spaghetto, dim. of spago, a cord.]