Defn: The quality or state of being spiny or thorny; spininess.
SPINOUS
Spi"nous, a.
1. Spinose; thorny.
2. Having the form of a spine or thorn; spinelike. Spinous process of a vertebra (Anat.), the dorsal process of the neural arch of a vertebra; a neurapophysis.
SPINOZISM
Spi*no"zism, n.
Defn: The form of Pantheism taught by Benedict Spinoza, that there is but one substance, or infinite essence, in the universe, of which the so-called material and spiritual beings and phenomena are only modes, and that one this one substance is God. [Written also Spinosism.]
SPINOZIST
Spi*no"zist, n.
Defn: A believer in Spinozism.
SPINSTER
Spin"ster, n. Etym: [Spin + -ster.]
1. A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin. She spake to spinster to spin it out. Piers Plowman. The spinsters and the knitters in the sun. Shak.