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Spoon (medicine)


spoon


1. An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating Food. ""Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon That shall eat with a fiend," thus heard I say." (Chaucer) "He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil." (Shak)

2. Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; especially.

A spoon bait.

3. A simpleton; a spooney. Spoon bait, a lure used in trolling, consisting of a glistening metallic plate shaped like the bowl of a spoon with a fishhook attached. Spoon bit, a bit for boring, hollowed or furrowed along one side. Spoon net, a net for landing fish. Spoon oar. See under Oar.

Origin: OE. Spon, AS. Spn, a chip; akin to D. Spaan, G. Span, Dan. Spaan, Sw. Span, Icel. Spann, sponn, a chip, a spoon. Cf. Span-new.

Source: Websters Dictionary


miswend (iou)



miswend verb.Pa. t. & pple -went. ME.
[from MIS-1 1 + WEND verb1.]
verb trans. Turn in a wrong direction; misapply; lead astray; pervert. Only in ME.
verb trans. (in pass.) & intrans. Go astray (lit. & fig.); come to grief. ME-E18.
P. Sidney What? is thy Bagpipe broke, or are thy lambes miswent?