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spang
(encz) | spang,rovnou Zdeněk Brož |
Spang
(gcide) | Spang \Spang\, v. t.
To spangle. [Obs.]
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Spang
(gcide) | Spang \Spang\, v. i.
To spring; to bound; to leap. [Scot.]
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But when they spang o'er reason's fence,
We smart for't at our own expense. --Ramsay.
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Spang
(gcide) | Spang \Spang\, n.
A bound or spring. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
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Spang
(gcide) | Spang \Spang\, n. [AS. spange a clasp or fastening; akin to D.
spang, G. spange, OHG. spanga, Icel. sp["o]ng a spangle.]
A spangle or shining ornament. [Obs.]
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With glittering spangs that did like stars appear.
--Spenser.
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spang
(wn) | spang
v 1: leap, jerk, bang; "Bullets spanged into the trees" [syn:
spang, bang] |
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spang
(encz) | spang,rovnou Zdeněk Brož |
spangle
(encz) | spangle,cetka n: Zdeněk Brož |
spangled
(encz) | spangled,třpytivý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
spanglish
(encz) | Spanglish, |
spangly
(encz) | spangly, adj: |
star-spangled
(encz) | star-spangled,posetý hvězdami Zdeněk Brož |
star-spangled banner
(encz) | Star-Spangled Banner, |
beaded beady bejeweled bejewelled bespangled gemmed jeweled jewelled sequined spangled spangly
(gcide) | decorated \decorated\ adj.
having decorations. [Narrower terms: {beaded, beady,
bejeweled, bejewelled, bespangled, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled,
sequined, spangled, spangly}; bedaubed; {bespectacled,
monocled, spectacled}; braided; {brocaded, embossed,
raised}; buttony; carbuncled; {champleve, cloisonne,
enameled}; crested, plumed having a decorative plume);
crested, top-knotted, topknotted, tufted; crested;
embellished, ornamented, ornate; embroidered; {encircled,
ringed, wreathed}; {fancied up, gussied, gussied up, tricked
out}; feathery, feathered, plumy; {frilled, frilly,
ruffled}; fringed; gilt-edged; inflamed; inlaid;
inwrought; laced; mosaic, tessellated; {paneled,
wainscoted}; studded; tapestried; tasseled, tasselled;
tufted; clinquant, tinseled, tinselly; tricked-out]
Also See: clothed, fancy. Antonym: unadorned.
Syn: adorned.
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Bespangle
(gcide) | Bespangle \Be*span"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bespangled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Bespangling.]
To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something
brilliant or glittering.
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The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops.
--Cowper.
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Bespangled
(gcide) | Bespangle \Be*span"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bespangled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Bespangling.]
To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something
brilliant or glittering.
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The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops.
--Cowper.
[1913 Webster]bespangled \bespangled\ adj.
covered with beads or jewels or sequins.
Syn: beaded, beady, bejeweled, bejewelled, gemmed, jeweled,
jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly.
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bespangled
(gcide) | Bespangle \Be*span"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bespangled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Bespangling.]
To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something
brilliant or glittering.
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The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops.
--Cowper.
[1913 Webster]bespangled \bespangled\ adj.
covered with beads or jewels or sequins.
Syn: beaded, beady, bejeweled, bejewelled, gemmed, jeweled,
jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly.
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Bespangling
(gcide) | Bespangle \Be*span"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bespangled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Bespangling.]
To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something
brilliant or glittering.
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The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops.
--Cowper.
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Oak spangle
(gcide) | Spangle \Span"gle\, n. [OE. spangel, dim. of AS. spange. See
Spang a spangle.]
1. A small plate or boss of shining metal; something
brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on
the dress.
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2. Figuratively, any little thing that sparkless. "The rich
spangles that adorn the sky." --Waller.
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Oak spangle. See under Oak.
[1913 Webster]Oak \Oak\ ([=o]k), n. [OE. oke, ok, ak, AS. [=a]c; akin to D.
eik, G. eiche, OHG. eih, Icel. eik, Sw. ek, Dan. eeg.]
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1. (Bot.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks
have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and
staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut,
called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a
scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now
recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly
fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe,
Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few
barely reaching the northern parts of South America and
Africa. Many of the oaks form forest trees of grand
proportions and live many centuries. The wood is usually
hard and tough, and provided with conspicuous medullary
rays, forming the silver grain.
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2. The strong wood or timber of the oak.
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Note: Among the true oaks in America are:
Barren oak, or
Black-jack, Quercus nigra.
Basket oak, Quercus Michauxii.
Black oak, Quercus tinctoria; -- called also yellow oak
or quercitron oak.
Bur oak (see under Bur.), Quercus macrocarpa; -- called
also over-cup or mossy-cup oak.
Chestnut oak, Quercus Prinus and Quercus densiflora.
Chinquapin oak (see under Chinquapin), {Quercus
prinoides}.
Coast live oak, Quercus agrifolia, of California; -- also
called enceno.
Live oak (see under Live), Quercus virens, the best of
all for shipbuilding; also, Quercus Chrysolepis, of
California.
Pin oak. Same as Swamp oak.
Post oak, Quercus obtusifolia.
Red oak, Quercus rubra.
Scarlet oak, Quercus coccinea.
Scrub oak, Quercus ilicifolia, Quercus undulata, etc.
Shingle oak, Quercus imbricaria.
Spanish oak, Quercus falcata.
Swamp Spanish oak, or
Pin oak, Quercus palustris.
Swamp white oak, Quercus bicolor.
Water oak, Quercus aquatica.
Water white oak, Quercus lyrata.
Willow oak, Quercus Phellos.
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Bitter oak, or
Turkey oak, Quercus Cerris (see Cerris).
Cork oak, Quercus Suber.
English white oak, Quercus Robur.
Evergreen oak,
Holly oak, or
Holm oak, Quercus Ilex.
Kermes oak, Quercus coccifera.
Nutgall oak, Quercus infectoria.
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Note: Among plants called oak, but not of the genus
Quercus, are:
African oak, a valuable timber tree ({Oldfieldia
Africana}).
Australian oak or She oak, any tree of the genus
Casuarina (see Casuarina).
Indian oak, the teak tree (see Teak).
Jerusalem oak. See under Jerusalem.
New Zealand oak, a sapindaceous tree ({Alectryon
excelsum}).
Poison oak, a shrub once not distinguished from poison ivy,
but now restricted to Rhus toxicodendron or {Rhus
diversiloba}.
Silky oak or Silk-bark oak, an Australian tree
(Grevillea robusta).
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Green oak, oak wood colored green by the growth of the
mycelium of certain fungi.
Oak apple, a large, smooth, round gall produced on the
leaves of the American red oak by a gallfly ({Cynips
confluens}). It is green and pulpy when young.
Oak beauty (Zool.), a British geometrid moth ({Biston
prodromaria}) whose larva feeds on the oak.
Oak gall, a gall found on the oak. See 2d Gall.
Oak leather (Bot.), the mycelium of a fungus which forms
leatherlike patches in the fissures of oak wood.
Oak pruner. (Zool.) See Pruner, the insect.
Oak spangle, a kind of gall produced on the oak by the
insect Diplolepis lenticularis.
Oak wart, a wartlike gall on the twigs of an oak.
The Oaks, one of the three great annual English horse races
(the Derby and St. Leger being the others). It was
instituted in 1779 by the Earl of Derby, and so called
from his estate.
To sport one's oak, to be "not at home to visitors,"
signified by closing the outer (oaken) door of one's
rooms. [Cant, Eng. Univ.]
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Spangle
(gcide) | Spangle \Span"gle\, v. i.
To show brilliant spots or points; to glisten; to glitter.
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Some men by feigning words as dark as mine
Make truth to spangle, and its rays to shine. --Bunyan.
[1913 Webster]Spangle \Span"gle\, n. [OE. spangel, dim. of AS. spange. See
Spang a spangle.]
1. A small plate or boss of shining metal; something
brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on
the dress.
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2. Figuratively, any little thing that sparkless. "The rich
spangles that adorn the sky." --Waller.
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Oak spangle. See under Oak.
[1913 Webster]Spangle \Span"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spangled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Spangling.]
To set or sprinkle with, or as with, spangles; to adorn with
small, distinct, brilliant bodies; as, a spangled
breastplate. --Donne.
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What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty? --Shak.
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Spangled coquette (Zool.), a tropical humming bird
(Lophornis reginae). See Coquette, 2.
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Spangled
(gcide) | Spangle \Span"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spangled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Spangling.]
To set or sprinkle with, or as with, spangles; to adorn with
small, distinct, brilliant bodies; as, a spangled
breastplate. --Donne.
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What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty? --Shak.
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Spangled coquette (Zool.), a tropical humming bird
(Lophornis reginae). See Coquette, 2.
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Spangled coquette
(gcide) | Spangle \Span"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spangled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Spangling.]
To set or sprinkle with, or as with, spangles; to adorn with
small, distinct, brilliant bodies; as, a spangled
breastplate. --Donne.
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What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty? --Shak.
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Spangled coquette (Zool.), a tropical humming bird
(Lophornis reginae). See Coquette, 2.
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Spangler
(gcide) | Spangler \Span"gler\, n.
One who, or that which, spangles.
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Spangling
(gcide) | Spangle \Span"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spangled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Spangling.]
To set or sprinkle with, or as with, spangles; to adorn with
small, distinct, brilliant bodies; as, a spangled
breastplate. --Donne.
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What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty? --Shak.
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Spangled coquette (Zool.), a tropical humming bird
(Lophornis reginae). See Coquette, 2.
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Spangly
(gcide) | Spangly \Span"gly\, a.
Resembling, or consisting of, spangles; glittering; as,
spangly light.
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Star-spangled
(gcide) | Star-spangled \Star"-span`gled\ (st[aum]r"-sp[a^][ng]`g'ld), a.
Spangled or studded with stars.
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Star-spangled banner, the popular name for the national
ensign of the United States; also the name of a poem, the
words of which were composed by Francis Scott Key, which
was adopted as the national anthem of the United States.
--F. S. Key.
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Star-spangled banner
(gcide) | Star-spangled \Star"-span`gled\ (st[aum]r"-sp[a^][ng]`g'ld), a.
Spangled or studded with stars.
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Star-spangled banner, the popular name for the national
ensign of the United States; also the name of a poem, the
words of which were composed by Francis Scott Key, which
was adopted as the national anthem of the United States.
--F. S. Key.
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bespangle
(wn) | bespangle
v 1: decorate with spangles; "the star-spangled banner" [syn:
spangle, bespangle]
2: dot or sprinkle with sparkling or glittering objects |
spang
(wn) | spang
v 1: leap, jerk, bang; "Bullets spanged into the trees" [syn:
spang, bang] |
spangle
(wn) | spangle
n 1: adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material
used to decorate clothing [syn: sequin, spangle,
diamante]
v 1: glitter as if covered with spangles
2: decorate with spangles; "the star-spangled banner" [syn:
spangle, bespangle] |
spangled
(wn) | spangled
adj 1: covered with beads or jewels or sequins [syn: beady,
gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled,
spangly] |
spangly
(wn) | spangly
adj 1: covered with beads or jewels or sequins [syn: beady,
gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled,
spangly] |
star-spangled banner
(wn) | Star-Spangled Banner
n 1: the national flag of the United States of America [syn:
American flag, Stars and Stripes, {Star-Spangled
Banner}, Old Glory] |
the star-spangled banner
(wn) | The Star-Spangled Banner
n 1: a poem written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812
was set to music and adopted by Congress in 1931 as the
national anthem of the United States |
spangle
(jargon) | spangle
n.
[UK] The singular of bells and whistles. See also spungle.
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