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1. Wearing spurs; furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs.
2. Affected with spur, or ergot; as, spurred rye.
Spurred corolla (Bot.), a corolla in which there are one or more petals with a spur.
Spurrer
(Spur"rer) n. One who spurs.
Spurrey
(Spur"rey) n. (Bot.) See Spurry.
Spurrier
(Spur"ri*er) n. One whose occupation is to make spurs. B. Jonson. "The saddlers and spurriers
would be ruined by thousands." Macaulay.
Spur-royal
(Spur"-roy`al) n. A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV., having a star on the reverse
resembling the rowel of a spur. In the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings.
[Written also spur-rial, and spur-ryal.]
Spurry
(Spur"ry) n. [D. or OF. spurrie; cf. G. spergel, NL. spergula.] (Bot.) An annual herb (Spergula
arvensis) with whorled filiform leaves, sometimes grown in Europe for fodder. [Written also spurrey.]
Sand spurry (Bot.), any low herb of the genus Lepigonum, mostly found in sandy places.
Spur-shell
(Spur"-shell`) n. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the
genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel
of a spur.
Spurt
(Spurt) v. i. [Written also spirt, and originally the same word as sprit; OE. sprutten to sprout,
AS. spryttan. See Sprit, v. i., Sprout, v. i.] To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream,
as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt.
Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock,
Spurts in the gardener's eyes who turns the cock. Pope. Spurt
(Spurt), v. t. To throw out, as a liquid, in a stream or jet; to drive or force out with violence, as a
liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth.
Spurt
(Spurt), n.
1. A sudden or violent ejection or gushing of a liquid, as of water from a tube, orifice, or other confined
place, or of blood from a wound; a jet; a spirt.
2. A shoot; a bud. [Obs.] Holland.
3. Fig.: A sudden outbreak; as, a spurt of jealousy.
Spurt grass (Bot.), a rush fit for basket work. Dr. Prior.
Spurt
(Spurt) n. [Cf. Icel. sprette a spurt, spring, run, spretta to sprit, spring.] A sudden and energetic
effort, as in an emergency; an increased exertion for a brief space.
The long, steady sweep of the so-called "paddle" tried him almost as much as the breathless strain of
the spurt. T. Hughes. Spurt
(Spurt), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Spurted; p. pr. & vb. n. Spurting.] To make a sudden and violent
exertion, as in an emergency.
Spurtle
(Spur"tle) v. t. [Freq. of spurt.] To spurt or shoot in a scattering manner. [Obs.] Drayton.
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