Definition of spence

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Spence (n.) A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry.

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Trysail :: Trysail (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer..
Dispence :: Dispence (v. i. & n.) See Dispense.
Agnosticism :: Agnosticism (n.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism..
Pause :: Pause (n.) Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
Spencer :: Spencer (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802]..
Spencer :: Spencer (n.) A short jacket worn by men and by women.
Spence :: Spence (n.) A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry.
Spence :: Spence (n.) The inner apartment of a country house; also, the place where the family sit and eat..
Spencer :: Spencer (n.) One who has the care of the spence, or buttery..
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