Word Meanings - CLASHGEAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A change-speed gear in which the gears are changed by sliding endwise.

• Spendthrifty
  Spendthrift; prodigal.
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• Spermatheca
  A small sac connected with the female reproductive organs of insects and many other invertebrates, serving to receive and retain the spermatozoa.
• Speckledness
  The quality of being speckled.
• Spermatogonium
  A primitive seminal cell, occuring in masses in the seminal tubules. It divides into a mass (spermosphere) of small cells (spermoblast), which in turn give rise to spermatozoids.
• Spectral
  Of or pertaining to a specter; ghosty.
• Spermist
  A believer in the doctrine, formerly current, of encasement in the male (see Encasement), in which the seminal thread, or spermatozoid, was considered as the real animal germ, the head being the true animal head and the tail the body.
• Speculate
  To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events.
• Sperrylite
  An arsenide of platinum occuring in grains and minute isometric crystals of tin-white color. It is found near Sudbury, Ontario Canada, and is the only known compound of platinum occuring in nature.
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• SLIDDERSLIDDERLYSLIDDERY
  Slippery. [Obs.] To a drunk man the way is slidder. Chaucer.
• Slidder
  To slide with interruption.
• Speedy
  Not dilatory or slow; quick; swift; nimble; hasty; rapid in motion or performance; as, a speedy flight; on speedy foot.
• SPEEDCOUNTER
  A device for automatically counting the revolutions or pulsations of an engine or other machine; -- called also simply counter.
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• Speciality
  A particular or peculiar case; a particularity.
• Spenserian
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faerie Queene."
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