--- title: S — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 78 description: The 2316 words of the English dictionary under S, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/78/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / S # S — The English dictionary · page 78 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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*Everyday, meaning 1:* An instrument in a car, bike, train or other vehicle that shows how fast it is going.[↗](../../speedometer/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The speedometer showed 30 miles per hour.[↗](../../speedometer/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad checked the speedometer as we passed the school.[↗](../../speedometer/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · My bike has a little speedometer on the handlebars.[↗](../../speedometer/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · In Ireland, speedometers show kilometres per hour.[↗](../../speedometer/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The needle on the speedometer went up as the train sped along.[↗](../../speedometer/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The speedometer reads 0 when the car is parked.[↗](../../speedometer/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **speedwell** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A small wild plant with tiny bright blue flowers, often found in grass, lawns and hedges.[↗](../../speedwell/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Tiny blue speedwell flowers grew all over the lawn.[↗](../../speedwell/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We found speedwell on our nature walk.[↗](../../speedwell/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Speedwell flowers have four petals.[↗](../../speedwell/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The bees visited the speedwell in the hedge.[↗](../../speedwell/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Germander speedwell is a common British wildflower.[↗](../../speedwell/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Speedwell flowers close up when it rains.[↗](../../speedwell/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **speedy** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Speedy means fast, moving or happening quickly: a speedy car, a speedy runner.[↗](../../speedy/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Speedy also means happening soon, without delay.[↗](../../speedy/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "Get well soon and have a speedy recovery."[↗](../../speedy/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The cheetah is the speediest land animal.[↗](../../speedy/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Thanks for your speedy reply\![↗](../../speedy/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We wish Grandpa a speedy recovery.[↗](../../speedy/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The shop promised speedy delivery.[↗](../../speedy/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · My speedy little dog always wins the race.[↗](../../speedy/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We had a speedy lunch before the match.[↗](../../speedy/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · A speedy decision is not always a good one.[↗](../../speedy/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · As conductor of shades, Hermes was always invoked by the dying to grant them a safe and speedy passage across the Styx.[↗](../../speedy/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **spell** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To spell a word is to say or write its letters in the right order.[↗](../../spell/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (noun) A spell is a set of magic words that makes something happen in stories.[↗](../../spell/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (noun) A short period of time: a spell of sunny weather.[↗](../../spell/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (verb) To spell something out is to explain it very clearly; "spell trouble" means to be a sign that something bad will happen.[↗](../../spell/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* How do you spell "necessary"?[↗](../../spell/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Can you spell your name for me?[↗](../../spell/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The witch cast a spell on the prince.[↗](../../spell/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The princess was under a spell.[↗](../../spell/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We had a spell of warm weather.[↗](../../spell/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Dark clouds spell trouble for the picnic.[↗](../../spell/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Let me spell it out for you.[↗](../../spell/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · "How can I break this spell?" said their sister.[↗](../../spell/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, or of the most cunning binder of spells.[↗](../../spell/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.58.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../spell/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **spellbound** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* So interested or amazed by something that you cannot look away or think of anything else.[↗](../../spellbound/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In fairy tales: held under a magic spell.[↗](../../spellbound/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The children sat spellbound as the storyteller spoke.[↗](../../spellbound/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We watched the fireworks spellbound.[↗](../../spellbound/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The magician held the audience spellbound.[↗](../../spellbound/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Rat and Mole stood spellbound by the strange music.[↗](../../spellbound/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · In the tale, the princess was spellbound for a hundred years.[↗](../../spellbound/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · I was spellbound by the whale swimming beside the boat.[↗](../../spellbound/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · At last the King came himself, and he likewise was spellbound by the beauty of the music.[↗](../../spellbound/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **speller** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A speller is a person who spells words, described as good or bad at it: she's a good speller.[↗](../../speller/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (US, Canada) A speller is also a school book of spelling lists and exercises.[↗](../../speller/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A spell-checker on a computer is sometimes called a speller.[↗](../../speller/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My sister is a brilliant speller.[↗](../../speller/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I'm a terrible speller, so I check my work carefully.[↗](../../speller/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Fifty spellers took part in the spelling bee.[↗](../../speller/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Open your spellers to page 12.[↗](../../speller/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The best speller in the class won a dictionary.[↗](../../speller/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The speller on my laptop missed my mistake.[↗](../../speller/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Good spellers read a lot.[↗](../../speller/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **spelling** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Spelling is the way words are written with letters in the right order.[↗](../../spelling/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Spelling is the skill of writing words correctly.[↗](../../spelling/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A spelling is the way one word is written.[↗](../../spelling/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Spellings (UK) are a list of words to learn to spell for a test.[↗](../../spelling/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I got ten out of ten in my spelling test.[↗](../../spelling/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Check your spelling before you hand it in.[↗](../../spelling/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · There's a spelling mistake in this sentence.[↗](../../spelling/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · "Colour" is the British spelling and "color" is the American spelling.[↗](../../spelling/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We learned our spellings for Friday.[↗](../../spelling/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She won the school spelling bee.[↗](../../spelling/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Good spelling makes your writing easier to read.[↗](../../spelling/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · He is spelling his name slowly for the teacher.[↗](../../spelling/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The author uses some alternative spellings--for example, "arn't" rather than "aren't", "dulness" rather than "dullness", both "shan't" and "sha'n't"--which have been left unchanged.[↗](../../spelling/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Private Hermetic MSS. have alone the correct names and spelling.[↗](../../spelling/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../spelling/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Such diagrams are often arranged so that the letter א Alef is across from ל Lamed, spelling the name אֵל El, God.[↗](../../spelling/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../spelling/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") **spelt** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Wrote or said the letters of a word in the right order.[↗](../../spelt/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Was the letters of a word, as in «c-a-t spelt cat».[↗](../../spelt/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (informal) Meant or caused, as in «the rain spelt trouble for the picnic».[↗](../../spelt/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A kind of old wheat grain used to make flour and bread.[↗](../../spelt/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I spelt «necessary» wrong in my spelling test.[↗](../../spelt/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · How is your name spelt?[↗](../../spelt/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The teacher spelt out the rules very clearly.[↗](../../spelt/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The dark clouds spelt trouble for the sports day.[↗](../../spelt/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Is «colour» spelt with a «u» in Australia?[↗](../../spelt/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") Yes.[↗](../../spelt/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad bakes bread with spelt flour.[↗](../../spelt/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · She spelt every word correctly and got full marks.[↗](../../spelt/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The letters on the fridge spelt «HELLO».[↗](../../spelt/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Why, the words are spelt differently, and mean quite different things.[↗](../../spelt/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they ripen late. — (Torah EXO.9.32, JPS 1917)[↗](../../spelt/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **spend** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To spend is to pay out money.[↗](../../spend/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To spend time is to use it doing something or being somewhere: «spend a day at the zoo».[↗](../../spend/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* How much does Anna spend?[↗](../../spend/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Sam spent 12 cents on sweets and 8 cents on a pen.[↗](../../spend/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Max spends 2 hours reading.[↗](../../spend/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We spent the weekend at Gran's.[↗](../../spend/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't spend all your pocket money at once.[↗](../../spend/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · How much time do you spend on homework?[↗](../../spend/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · She spent 5 dollars and saved 3.[↗](../../spend/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · We spent the night in a tent.[↗](../../spend/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · "Have you spent the night comfortably?"[↗](../../spend/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · I will heap evils upon them; I will spend Mine arrows upon them; (Torah DEU.32.23, JPS 1917)[↗](../../spend/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.[↗](../../spend/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.21.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../spend/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield her produce, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.[↗](../../spend/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.26.20, JPS 1917)[↗](../../spend/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.[↗](../../spend/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.7.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../spend/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · They spend their days in prosperity, and peacefully they go down to the grave.[↗](../../spend/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.21.13, JPS 1917)[↗](../../spend/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · If they hearken and serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.[↗](../../spend/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.36.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../spend/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **spendthrift** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A spendthrift is a person who spends money fast and carelessly, until none is left.[↗](../../spendthrift/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A spendthrift spends all his money at once.[↗](../../spendthrift/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The young man was a great spendthrift and had run through all his money.[↗](../../spendthrift/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Here a young spendthrift is warned in a dream.[↗](../../spendthrift/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **sperm** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A sperm is a tiny male cell made by male animals and men; when a sperm joins with an egg cell from a female, a new baby animal or baby human can start to grow.[↗](../../sperm/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In plants, the male cells that join with egg cells are carried in pollen.[↗](../../sperm/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A baby starts when a sperm and an egg join.[↗](../../sperm/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A sperm cell has a long tail to help it swim.[↗](../../sperm/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Half of your DNA came from the sperm and half from the egg.[↗](../../sperm/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Frogs release eggs and sperm into the pond.[↗](../../sperm/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Sperm are much too small to see without a microscope.[↗](../../sperm/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The sperm whale is the largest toothed whale.[↗](../../sperm/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **spew** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* To throw up food or drink from the stomach; to vomit.[↗](../../spew/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* And thou shalt say unto them: Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.[↗](../../spew/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.25.27, JPS 1917)[↗](../../spew/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") **spf** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Short for «sun protection factor»: a number on sun cream showing how well it protects skin from the sun's burning rays (UVB).[↗](../../spf/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Use sun cream with at least SPF 30.[↗](../../spf/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · My sun cream is SPF 50.[↗](../../spf/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Check the SPF number on the bottle.[↗](../../spf/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Even with high SPF, you need a hat and shade.[↗](../../spf/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Put sun cream on again after swimming.[↗](../../spf/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · SPF stands for «sun protection factor».[↗](../../spf/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Lip balm with SPF protects your lips too.[↗](../../spf/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Pale skin burns quickly, so choose a high SPF.[↗](../../spf/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **sphagnum** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A kind of soft moss that grows in wet bogs and can hold huge amounts of water; it slowly turns into peat.[↗](../../sphagnum/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Sphagnum moss can hold many times its weight in water.[↗](../../sphagnum/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Peat bogs are made of old sphagnum.[↗](../../sphagnum/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · In World War I, people collected sphagnum to dress wounds.[↗](../../sphagnum/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Bog bodies were preserved by sphagnum and peat.[↗](../../sphagnum/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Gardeners line baskets with sphagnum moss.[↗](../../sphagnum/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Protecting bogs with sphagnum helps store carbon.[↗](../../sphagnum/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **sphere** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A round solid shape like a ball, where every point on the surface is the same distance from the centre.[↗](../../sphere/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* An area of activity, interest or power: the sphere of science.[↗](../../sphere/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (science) A layer around the Earth: atmosphere, hemisphere.[↗](../../sphere/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* In old writings, the spheres are the heavens, the great rings in the sky that carry the stars and planets.[↗](../../sphere/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A football is a sphere.[↗](../../sphere/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A sphere has one curved face and no edges.[↗](../../sphere/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The Earth is nearly a sphere.[↗](../../sphere/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A bubble is a sphere.[↗](../../sphere/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Half a sphere is called a hemisphere.[↗](../../sphere/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Music is her sphere of interest.[↗](../../sphere/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Through the spheres echoed the words:[↗](../../sphere/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · These are the ten spheres of existence out of nothing.[↗](../../sphere/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../sphere/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · If the sphere be rotated forward, good is implied, if in a retrograde manner evil is intended.[↗](../../sphere/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)[↗](../../sphere/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · These twenty-two letters, the foundations, He arranged as on a sphere, with two hundred and thirty-one modes of entrance.[↗](../../sphere/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)[↗](../../sphere/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **spherical** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Spherical means shaped like a ball, round in every direction, like a sphere.[↗](../../spherical/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In maths, a spherical object has every point on its surface the same distance from the centre.[↗](../../spherical/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A football is spherical.[↗](../../spherical/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The Earth is almost spherical but a little flat at the poles.[↗](../../spherical/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Bubbles are spherical because of how water pulls on itself.[↗](../../spherical/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Marbles are small spherical glass balls.[↗](../../spherical/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A circle is flat, but a ball is spherical.[↗](../../spherical/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The bead was spherical with a hole through the middle.[↗](../../spherical/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Name three spherical things in the classroom.[↗](../../spherical/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **sphinx** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The Great Sphinx is a huge ancient stone statue in Egypt with a lion's body and a human head, near the pyramids of Giza.[↗](../../sphinx/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A sphinx is any statue or creature in myths with a lion's body and a human (or other animal's) head.[↗](../../sphinx/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* In Greek myths, the Sphinx was a monster who asked travellers a riddle and ate those who got it wrong.[↗](../../sphinx/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A sphinx is a person who is mysterious and hard to read.[↗](../../sphinx/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* A Sphynx is a hairless breed of cat (spelled with a «y»).[↗](../../sphinx/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The Great Sphinx guards the pyramids at Giza.[↗](../../sphinx/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The Sphinx has a lion's body and a human head.[↗](../../sphinx/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Oedipus solved the riddle of the Sphinx.[↗](../../sphinx/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The Sphinx's nose has been missing for hundreds of years.[↗](../../sphinx/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She gave a sphinx-like smile and said nothing.[↗](../../sphinx/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A Sphynx cat has no fur and feels warm like a peach.[↗](../../sphinx/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · We built a model sphinx from clay.[↗](../../sphinx/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The Sphinx was an ancient Egyptian divinity, who personified wisdom, and the fertility of nature.[↗](../../sphinx/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **spice** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A spice is a dried part of a plant, such as seeds, bark or roots, used to give food a strong flavour: pepper, cinnamon, ginger, cumin.[↗](../../spice/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Spice also means excitement or interest that makes something less boring: «variety is the spice of life».[↗](../../spice/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To spice food is to add spices to it.[↗](../../spice/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To spice something up is to make it more exciting or interesting.[↗](../../spice/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Cinnamon is my favourite spice.[↗](../../spice/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum keeps her spices in little jars on a rack.[↗](../../spice/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Add a pinch of spice to the soup.[↗](../../spice/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The ships carried spices from faraway lands.[↗](../../spice/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Let's spice up the party with some games.[↗](../../spice/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Variety is the spice of life.[↗](../../spice/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Gran made spiced apple cake.[↗](../../spice/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Some spices, like chilli, make food hot.[↗](../../spice/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · She smells of spice and honey.[↗](../../spice/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · and he burnt thereon incense of sweet spices; as the LORD commanded Moses.[↗](../../spice/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.40.27, JPS 1917)[↗](../../spice/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense; (Torah EXO.25.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../spice/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense; (Torah EXO.35.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../spice/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · And some of the sons of the priests prepared the confection of the spices.[↗](../../spice/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 1CH.9.30, JPS 1917)[↗](../../spice/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · Spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.[↗](../../spice/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings SNG.4.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../spice/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.[↗](../../spice/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings SNG.4.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../spice/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/) … [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/77/) **78** [79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/79/) … [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/127/) - ← previous: [page 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/77/) - next →: [page 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/79/) - ↑ back to [The English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/)