Definition of spur

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Spur (n.) An implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood..

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Lussheburgh :: Lussheburgh (n.) A spurious coin of light weight imported into England from Luxemburg, or Lussheburgh, as it was formerly called..
Spurious :: Spurging (n.) A purging.
Spar :: Spar (v. i.) To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do..
Interpolation :: Interpolation (n.) The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially that which is spurious or foreign..
Nectary :: Nectary (n.) That part of a blossom which secretes nectar, usually the base of the corolla or petals; also, the spur of such flowers as the larkspur and columbine, whether nectariferous or not. See the Illustration of Nasturtium..
Spurn-water :: Spurner (n.) One who spurns.
Bastardly :: Bastardly (a.) Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt.
Spur :: Spur (n.) That which goads to action; an incitement.
Pseudograph :: Pseudograph (n.) A false writing; a spurious document; a forgery.
Isidorian :: Isidorian (a.) Pertaining, or ascribed, to Isidore; as, the Isidorian decretals, a spurious collection of decretals published in the ninth century..
Spur :: Spur (n.) The short wooden buttress of a post.
Spurt :: Spur-shell (n.) Any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur..
Bastard :: Bastard (n.) Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so..
Spurry :: Spur-royal (n.) A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. In the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings..
Tithymal :: Tithymal (n.) Any kind of spurge, esp. Euphorbia Cyparissias..
Spurgall :: Spur (v. i.) To spur on one' horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit..
Jet :: "Jet (n.) A shooting forth; a spouting; a spurt; a sudden rush or gush, as of water from a pipe, or of flame from an orifice; also, that which issues in a jet..
Spurt :: Sourt (n.) Fig.: A sudden outbreak; as, a spurt of jealousy..
Spur :: Spur (n.) Any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain burds, on the legs of insects, etc.; especially, the spine on a cock's leg..
Kamichi :: Kamichi (n.) A curious South American bird (Anhima, / Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds, it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres). Called also horned screamer. The name is sometimes applied also to the chaja. See Chaja, and S
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