Index of English words, starting with "sp"

(1) - Sprite (n.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
(2) - Sprite (n.) An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
(3) - Sprite (n.) A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See Spright.

(1) - Spritsail (n.) A sail formerly hung under the bowsprit, from the spritsail yard.
(2) - Spritsail (n.) A sail extended by a sprit.

(1) - Sprout (v. i.) Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts.
(2) - Sprout (v. i.) The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch.
(3) - Sprout (v. t.) To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.
(4) - Sprout (v. t.) To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed.
(5) - Sprout (v. t.) To shoot into ramifications.
(6) - Sprout (v. t.) To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.