Spielhagen
FRIEDRICH, a German novelist; born in Magdeburg, Feb. 24, 1829, but passed all his youth
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Spielhagen
FRIEDRICH at Stralsund. From the gymnasium there he proceeded in 1847 to the universities successively of Bonn, Berlin, and Greifswald, afterward settling at Leipsic in 1854 as a docent, at Hanover in 1859, and at Berlin in 1862, in the last two places till 1884 as a newspaper editor. His works, of which eight have been translated into English, are some 30 in number, in over 50 volumes, and include: "Klara Vere" (1857); "On the Dunes" (1858); "Enigmatical Natures" (1860); "The Von Hohensteins" (1863); FRIEDRICH SPIELHAGEN "Little Rose of the Court" (1864); "In Rank and File" (1866); "The Village Coquette" (1868); "Hammer and Anvil" (1868); "Ever Onward" (1872); "Ultimo" (1873); "The Freshet" (1876); "Quisisana" (1879-1880); "Angela" (1881); "Uhlenhans" (1884); "Noblesse Oblige" (1888); "A New Pharaoh" (1889); "Susi" (1895); and many dramatic works and much miscellany. He died in 1911.
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Spike
in botany, that kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers, or flowers having very short stocks, are arranged around an axis, as in the greater plantain, common vervain, common lavender, and some species of sedge. In rye, wheat, barley, darnel, and many other grasses there is a sort of compound spike-i. e., the flowers or fruits are arranged together in spikelets on short stalks, which again surround the top of the culm in the form of a spike. The catkin, the spadix, and the cone may be regarded as varieties of the spike.
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Spike
A sharpened instrument of iron, used in some foundries for drawing patterns out of the sand. On the whole, they are a very unsatisfactory device; for, whether the pattern is drawn or not, it is certain to be damaged more or less in the operation. A hole bored for a woodscrew is less likely to split the pattern; but the rapping-plate and iron screw is more reliable, and should be adopted on all patterns when practicable. Heavy nails over 4 1/4 inches long are in the foundry usually designated as spike-nails or spikes. See RAPPING-PLATE; SPRING PATTERN-LIFTER.
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Spikenard
an herb related to valerian. It is found in the Himalayan region. The plant has been used by the Hindus as a medicine from the remotest ages. An oil with a heavy odor derived from the leaves is much employed as an ointment. The spikenard of the druggist consists of pieces of the root-stock, still covered with fibrous remains of leaf stalks. The ancients made an aromatic ointment in which spikenard was the chief ingredient. It was highly prized and commanded a high price among the western nations. Some of the bystanders are represented in Mark xiv as finding fault with the woman who came "having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box and poured it on his head." They thought that so costly an ointment should have been sold, and the money bestowed on the poor. Various aromatic plants are known as spikenard. The American spikenard is a much-branched herb with large leaves and aromatic root-stocks. It is known botanically as Aralia. It is related to the wild sarsaparilla and grows with it in deep, rich woods. Several of the valerians are known as spikenards. See Oil ; Perfume; Medicine ; Spurge
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Spikenard
in botany: (1) Nardostachys jatamansi, called in Hindustan jatamansi and balckhar. The root, which is from 3 to 12 inches long, sends up many stems, with little spikes of purple flowers, which have four stamens. It grows in the Himalayas at an elevation of from 11,000 to 15,000, or in Sikkim to 17,000 feet. (2) Valeriana celtica, and in various countries other plants. In perfumes, an aromatic substance derived from the root of Nardostachys jatamansi. It was highly prized by the ancients, and used by them both in baths and at feasts as an unguent. The "ointment of spikenard" with which our Lord was anointed as He sat at meat in the house of Simon of Bethany was prepared from it.
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Spill-trough
A shallow-dished trough of iron, about 2 feet wide and 6 feet long, supported about 10 inches above the floor on four feet, against which the brass moulder leans his small flasks on end for pouring with the crucible. The trough catches whatever may overflow at the gate or spill from the crucible; and, besides this, it serves as a general receptacle for every description of brass-scrap that is made. The contents are sifted from time to time and the scrap remelted.
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Spinal Cord
the spinal marrow or nervous cord which runs through the backbone, that is to say, through the spinal canal from the brain of every vertebrate. The cord is continuous with the brain. See Nervous System
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Spinal Nerves
the name applied to the paired nerves which arise from the spinal cord, and which are distributed to the various parts of the body. The spinal nerves are so named in contradistinction to the cranial nerves, or those which originate from the brain itself. Thirty-one pairs of spinal nerves arise from the spinal cord of man. They pass from the spinal cord and spine through the intervertebral foramina, or openings between the bodies of the vertebræ. Eight pairs are cervical; 12 are dorsal nerves, also named thoracic; 5 are lumbar, 5 5 sacral, sao and 1 co coccygeal. Each spinal nerve arises by two roots, an anterior and posterior, from the spinal column. The posterior root has a nerve mass or ganglion, which is wanting in the anterior. The fibers of the anterior roots are motor in nature, i. e., impulses travel by these roots outward from the cord or brain to the body. The fibers of the posterior roots are sensory, i. e., impulses are conveyed by these fibers to the cord or brain. The anterior and posterior fibers unite just beyond the nervous ganglion to form a single nerve trunk, in which the two sets of fibers are indistinguishable. See NERVE.
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Spindle
in spinning, a pendent piece of wood for twisting and winding the fibers drawn from the distaff, or the pin used in spinning wheels for for twisting the thread, and on which the thread, when twisted, is wound. It is applied applied also to a measure of yarn: in cotton a spindle of 18 hanks is 15,120 yards; in linen a spindle of 24 heers is 14,400 yards.
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