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Spinette
- unknown - small harpsichord also spinet
Spiniest
- adjective - having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"
- having spines; "the dorsal fin is spinous"
Spinifex
- - A genus of chiefly Australian grasses, the seeds of which bear an elastic spine. Spinifex hirsutus (black grass) and Spinifex longifolius are useful as sand binders. Spinifex paradoxusis a valuable perennial fodder plant. Also, a plant of this genus.
Spinnbar
- adjective - capable of being spun into fibres
Spinners
- noun - board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game
- fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water
- someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
Spinneys
- noun - a copse that shelters game
Spinning
- verb - cause to spin; "spin a coin"
- creating thread
- form a web by making a thread; "spiders spin a fine web"
- make up a story; "spin a yarn"
- prolong or extend; "spin out a visit"
- revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"
- stream in jets, of liquids; "The creek spun its course through the woods"
- twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretation; "The President's spokesmen had to spin the story to make it less embarrassing"
- work natural fibers into a thread; "spin silk"
Spinster
- noun - an elderly unmarried woman
- someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
Spinstry
- - The business of one who spins; spinning.
Spirable
- - Capable of being breathed; respirable.