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† ˈspather Obs. rare.
[Irregularly f. L. spatha, or alteration of spatter n.1]
A spattle or spatula.
1597Gerarde Herbal iii. xxxix. 1178 Of this there is made a profitable spather or slice to be vsed in making of compounde plaisters and pessaries. 1657Physical Dict. B iv, Albation, is the abstraction of Dust..with a Hares foot, feather, spather, or such like.
So † ˈspathern. Obs. rare.
1634T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. iii. xxix. 121, I have sometimes seen such passages so open, that they would receive the head of a Spathern [F. espatule]. Ibid. xv. vi. 567 That bone which is deprest must be lifted up with a spatherne, or little sticke. |