Vocabulary : Sprocket wheel to Sprue
Sprocket wheel : Same as Chain wheel.
Sprod : A salmon in its second year.
Sprong : imp. of Spring. Sprung.
Sprout : To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants. ;; To shoot into ramifications. ;; To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed. ;; To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes. ;; The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch. ;; Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts.
Sprouted : of Sprout
Sprouting : of Sprout
Spruce : Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce (P. excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (P. alba and P. nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea. ;; The wood or timber of the spruce tree. ;; Prussia leather; pruce. ;; Neat, without elegance or dignity; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons. ;; Sprightly; dashing. ;; To dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce. ;; To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up.
Spruced : of Spruce
Sprucing : of Spruce
Sprue : Strictly, the hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold. ;; The waste piece of metal cast in this hole; hence, dross. ;; Same as Sprew.
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