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Turnpike :: Turnpike (n.) A turnpike road.

Hornpike :: Hornpike (n.) The garfish.

Spiked :: Spiked (imp. & p. p.) of Spik.

Nard :: Nard (n.) An ointment prepared partly from this plant. See Spikenard.

Half-pike :: Half-pike (n.) A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon..

Adder's-tongue :: Adder's-tongue (n.) A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue..

Cockscomb :: Cockscomb (n.) A plant (Celosia cristata), of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called garden cockscomb. Also the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus Crista-galli, and the Onobrychis Crista-galli..

Spike :: Spike (n.) An ear of corn or grain.

Unspike :: Unspike (v. t.) To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon..

Rhachilla :: Rhachilla (n.) A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses.

Broom Rape :: Broom rape () A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand A. Ludovicianum..

Pikeman :: Pikeman (n.) A miner who works with a pick.

Wall-eye :: Wall-eye (n.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes; -- called also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and wall-eyed perch..

Cloy :: Cloy (v. t.) To spike, as a cannon..

Garpike :: Garpike () See under Gar.

Gad :: Gad (n.) A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.

Grass Tree :: Grass tree () An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called blackboys from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides..

Zander :: Zander (n.) A European pike perch (Stizostedion lucioperca) allied to the wall-eye; -- called also sandari, sander, sannat, schill, and zant..

Aspic :: Aspic (n.) A European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which produces a volatile oil. See Spike..

Sea Pike :: Sea pike () A large serranoid food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found on both coasts of America; -- called also robalo.

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