Defn: A charge of wash for the still. Knight.
SPERLING Sper"ling, n. Etym: [See Sparling.] (Zoöl.) (a) A smelt; a sparling. [Prov. Eng.] (b) A young herring. [Local, U.S.]
SPERM
Sperm, n.Etym: [F. sperme, L. sperma, Gr. Spore.] (Physiol.)
Defn: The male fecundating fluid; semen. See Semen. Sperm cell
(Physiol.), one of the cells from which the spermatozoids are
developed.
— Sperm morula. (Biol.) Same as Spermosphere.
SPERM
Sperm, n.Etym: [Contr. fr. spermaceti.]
Defn: Spermaceti. Sperm oil, a fatty oil found as a liquid, with spermaceti, in the head cavities of the sperm whale. — Sperm whale. (Zoöl.) See in the Vocabulary.
SPERMACETI Sper`ma*ce"ti, n. Etym: [L. sperma sperm + cetus,gen. ceti, any large sea animal, a whale, Gr. Sperm, Cetaceous.]
Defn: A white waxy substance obtained from cavities in the head of the sperm whale, and used making candles, oilments, cosmetics, etc. It consists essentially of ethereal salts of palmitic acid with ethal and other hydrocarbon bases. The substance of spermaceti after the removal of certain impurities is sometimes called cetin. Spermaceti whale (Zoöl.), the sperm whale.
SPERMALIST
Sper"mal*ist, n. (Biol.)
Defn: See Spermist.