Definition of spur

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Spur (n.) Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur.

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Conspurcation :: Conspurcation (n.) The act of defiling; defilement; pollution.
Extemporaneous :: Extemporaneous (a.) Composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment, or without previous study; unpremeditated; off-hand; extempore; extemporary; as, an extemporaneous address or production..
Spurn :: Spurn (v. t.) To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.
Spur :: Spur (n.) One of the large or principal roots of a tree.
Spur :: Spur (n.) The short wooden buttress of a post.
Spurt :: Spurt (v. i.) To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt..
Milkweed :: Milkweed (n.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge..
Spurgewort :: Spurge (n.) Any plant of the genus Euphorbia. See Euphorbia.
Mercury :: Mercury (n.) A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe..
Spur :: Spur (n.) A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
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..
Spurn :: Spurning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spur.
Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word..
Right :: Right (a.) Characterized by reality or genuineness; real; actual; not spurious.
Wivern :: Wivern (n.) A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs..
Spurging :: Spurgewort (n.) Any euphorbiaceous plant.
Prick :: Prick (v.) That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer..
Misedition :: Misedition (n.) An incorrect or spurious edition.
Spurtle :: Spurt (v. i.) To make a sudden and violent exertion, as in an emergency..
Heel :: Heel (n.) Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horse understands the heel well..
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