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Spicated :: Spicated (a.) Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes..

Sciuroid :: Sciuroid (a.) Resembling the tail of a squirrel; -- generally said of branches which are close and dense, or of spikes of grass like barley..

Sailfish :: Sailfish (n.) The banner fish, or spikefish (Histiophorus.).

Cloy :: Cloy (v. t.) To spike, as a cannon..

Spike :: Spike (v. t.) To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it..

Spiked :: Spiked (imp. & p. p.) of Spik.

Spikenard :: Spikenard (n.) A fragrant essential oil, as that from the Nardostachys Jatamansi..

Pudu :: Pudu (n.) A very small deer (Pudua humilis), native of the Chilian Andes. It has simple spikelike antlers, only two or three inches long..

Grass Tree :: Grass tree () An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called blackboys from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides..

Pike :: Pike (n. & v.) A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target..

Glumelle :: Glumelle (n.) One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.

Locusta :: Locusta (n.) The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses.

Spike :: Spike (v. t.) To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks..

Cat-tail :: Cat-tail (n.) A tall rush or flag (Typha latifolia) growing in marshes, with long, flat leaves, and having its flowers in a close cylindrical spike at the top of the stem. The leaves are frequently used for seating chairs, making mats, etc. See Catkin..

Spiky :: Spiky (a.) Like a spike; spikelike.

Willow :: Willow (n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil..

Water Torch :: Water torch () The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil..

Spikenard :: Spikenard (n.) An aromatic plant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for the hair is still prepared in India..

Handspike :: Handspike (n.) A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes..

Hersillon :: Hersillon (n.) A beam with projecting spikes, used to make a breach impassable..

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