Bitter spar |
A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite. |
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Rhomb spar |
A variety of dolomite. |
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Shiver |
One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural. |
n. |
Shiver |
A thin slice; a shive. |
n. |
Shiver |
A variety of blue slate. |
n. |
Shiver |
A sheave or small wheel in a pulley. |
n. |
Shiver |
A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter. |
n. |
Shiver |
A spindle. |
n. |
Shiver |
To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet. |
v. t. |
Shiver |
To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered. |
v. i. |
Shiver |
To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear. |
v. i. |
Shiver |
To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind. |
v. t. |
Shiver |
The act of shivering or trembling. |
n. |
Spar |
An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous vein. |
n. |
Spar |
A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff. |
v. t. |
Spar |
Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; -- still applied locally to rafters. |
v. t. |
Spar |
The bar of a gate or door. |
v. t. |
Spar |
To bolt; to bar. |
v. t. |
Spar |
To To supply or equip with spars, as a vessel. |
v. t. |
Spar |
To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do. |
v. i. |