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ˈspondyl(e Now rare. Forms: α. 5– spondyle, 5–7 -dile, 8–9 sphondyle. β. 6– spondyl, 6–7 -dyll, 6 -dylle, 6–7 -dille, 7 -dil(l. γ. 5–7 spondel, 6 -dele, -delle, 7 spondle. [a. F. spondyle, † spondile, -ille (= Sp. espondil, Pg. espondyl, It. spondillo), or ad. L. spondylus, sphondylus, ad. Gr. σπ-, σϕόνδυλος. Cf. spondylus.] †1. One or other of the joints of the spine; a vertebra. Obs. αc1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 146 Bitwene þe firste spondile & þe secunde. Ibid. (Addit. MS. 12056), The firste spondyle ys y-bounden to þe secunde. 1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. E ij, It descendeth by the spondyles vnto the ende of the backe. 1601Holland Pliny II. 257 The first spondyle or turning joint in the chine of a Dragon. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxvii, To others again he unjoynted the spondyles or knuckles of the neck. β1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. D iv b, Through the myddes of the spondylles or rydge bones tyll vnto the ende of the backe. 1547Boorde Brev. Health x. 10 b, A senowe the whyche doth growe out of the myddle of the spondyls. 1590P. Barrough Meth. Physick i. xvii. (1639) 28 It is good also to annoint the first and second Spondill in the neck. 1637B. Jonson Sad Shepherd ii. vii, A kind of rack Runs downe along the Spondylls of his back. 1667Lond. Gaz. No. 159/4 A great shot..entring the spondilles of his back. γc1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 146 In þe necke þer ben .vij. spondelis, þat is to seie whirlboonys. 1548–77Vicary Anat. vi. (1888) 45 The Spondelles of the necke be seuen. 1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 120 The spondles or ioynts of the backe-bone. 1615Crooke Body of Man 113 It hath his beginning at the first spondle of the loynes. 1650Bulwer Authropomet. 194 Being pliant, [it] easily permits the Spondels to slip awry inwards. †b. transf. A formation like a vertebra. Obs.
1658Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 937 The third species hath four wings;..in the tail there are five red spondils. †2. A joint of a wheel, vessel, etc. Obs.
1650Charleton Paradoxes 40 You may rejoyne, that..there succeeds a participation of the substance of the Load⁓stone in the porosities..of the steel, or spondils of the glasse. 1660Jer. Taylor Ductor Ep. Ded., That every spondyl of the wheels may mark out those vertues which we are then to exercise. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 217 The Sea salt..doth stick fast to the spondils or chinks of the vessels. 3. Zool. = spondylus.
1668Wilkins Real Char. 130 Exanguious Testaceous Animals... 4. Oyster. Spondyl. 1776E. M. da Costa Elem. Conch. 248 The spondyles are most generally eared shells with unequal valves, rude or uncouth in shape. 1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. I. viii. 256 Lamarck..observes that the Spondyls have the margin of the mantle furnished with two rows of tentacular threads. 1854Badham Halieut. 42 Such a pond, too, is the best nidus for..balani, and sphondyles. †4. Some kind of fossil. Obs.—1
1708Phil. Trans. XXVI. 78 Ichthyospondylus, The Spondyl, or Fairy Salt-seller. |