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Spout :: Spout (v. t.) To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch..

Spat :: Spat (v. i. & t.) To emit spawn; to emit, as spawn..

Pawnbroking :: Pawnbroking (n.) The business of a pawnbroker.

Ergot :: Ergot (n.) The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding..

Cultch :: Cultch (n.) Empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster.

Shotten :: Shotten (n.) Having ejected the spawn; as, a shotten herring..

Spent :: Spent (a.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes.

Pawnees :: Pawnees (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians (called also Loups) who formerly occupied the region of the Platte river, but now live mostly in the Indian Territory. The term is often used in a wider sense to include also the related tribes of Rickarees and Wichitas. Called also Pani..

Landlocked :: Landlocked (a.) Confined to a fresh-water lake by reason of waterfalls or dams; -- said of fishes that would naturally seek the sea, after spawning; as, the landlocked salmon..

Spawn :: Spawn (v. t.) To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do..

Kipper :: Kipper (n.) A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh..

Lumber :: Lumber (n.) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn..

Pawn :: Pawn (v. t.) To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch..

Catadromous :: Catadromous (a.) Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn; -- opposed to anadromous, and said of the eel..

Oppignerate :: Oppignerate (v. i.) To pledge; to pawn.

Lombardeer :: Lombardeer (n.) A pawnbroker.

Spawn :: Spawn (v. t.) The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi.

Pledge :: Pledge (n.) The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn..

Pignorative :: Pignorative (a.) Pledging, pawning..

Mixogamous :: Mixogamous (a.) Pairing with several males; -- said of certain fishes of which several males accompany each female during spawning.

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