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Spike :: Spike (n.) An ear of corn or grain.

Set :: Set (n.) A short steel spike used for driving the head of a nail below the surface.

Hyacinth :: Hyacinth (n.) A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. H. orientalis is a common variety..

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..

Nail :: Nail (n.) To spike, as a cannon..

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..

Spick :: Spick (n.) A spike or nail.

Spiciform :: Spiciform (a.) Spike-shaped.

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

Umbo :: Umbo (n.) The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike..

Lion''s Tail :: Lion's tail () A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.

Spicose :: Spicose (a.) Having spikes, or ears, like corn spikes..

Spikebill :: Spikebill (n.) The hooded merganser.

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

Spiculate :: Spiculate (a.) Covered with minute spiculae, or pointed fleshy appendages; divided into small spikelets..

Fumitory :: Fumitory (n.) The common uame of several species of the genus Fumaria, annual herbs of the Old World, with finely dissected leaves and small flowers in dense racemes or spikes. F. officinalis is a common species, and was formerly used as an antiscorbutic..

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

Rhachis :: Rhachis (n.) The principal axis in a raceme, spike, panicle, or corymb..

Glume :: Glume (n.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt..

Spikebill :: Spikebill (n.) The marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa).

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