| throw |
| 5 - - - - - - - - - | snow |
| 6 - - - - - - - - - | bad |
| 7 - - - - - - - - - | blow |
| 8 - - - - - - - - - | lad |
| 9 - - - - - - - - - - | sad (an alexandrine). |
Spent Weary. A hunting term. A deer is said to be spent when it stretches out its neck, and is at the
point of death. In sea language, a broken mast is said to be “spent.”
Spheres The music or harmony of the spheres. Pythagoras, having ascertained that the pitch of notes
depends on the rapidity of vibrations, and also that the planets move at different rates of motion, concluded
that the sounds made by their motion must vary according to their different rates of motion. As all things
in nature are harmoniously made, the different sounds must harmonise, and the combination he called
the “harmony of the spheres.” Kepler has a treatise on the subject.
