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Glume :: Glume (n.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt..

Spignet :: Spignet (n.) An aromatic plant of America. See Spikenard.

Spiked :: Spiked (a.) Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes..

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

Herisson :: Herisson (n.) A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage..

Stabbingly :: Stabber (n.) A small marline spike; a pricker.

Pricker :: Pricker (n.) A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking..

Spikebill :: Spikebill (n.) The hooded merganser.

Flail :: Flail (n.) An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded..

Mullein :: Mullein (n.) Any plant of the genus Verbascum. They are tall herbs having coarse leaves, and large flowers in dense spikes. The common species, with densely woolly leaves, is Verbascum Thapsus..

Spike :: Spike (v. t.) To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks..

Spiky :: Spiky (a.) Like a spike; spikelike.

Pikestaff :: Pikestaff (n.) A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping..

Brob :: Brob (n.) A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping..

Plantain :: Plantain (n.) Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P. major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world..

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

Willow :: Willow (n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil..

Spelk :: Spelk (n.) A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter.

Hatch :: Hatch (n.) A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge..

Ear :: Ear (n.) The spike or head of any cereal (as, wheat, rye, barley, Indian corn, etc.), containing the kernels..

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