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Spawners
- noun - a female fish at spawning time
Spawning
- verb - call forth
- lay spawn; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"
Sphenion
- noun - the anterior tip of the parietal bone
Sphenoid
- noun - butterfly-shaped bone at the base of the skull
Sphinges
- noun - (Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body; daughter of Typhon
- an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret
- one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians
Sphingid
- noun - any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed
Spinnbar
- adjective - capable of being spun into fibres
Spinners
- noun - board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game
- fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water
- someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
Spinneys
- noun - a copse that shelters game
Spinning
- verb - cause to spin; "spin a coin"
- creating thread
- form a web by making a thread; "spiders spin a fine web"
- make up a story; "spin a yarn"
- prolong or extend; "spin out a visit"
- revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"
- stream in jets, of liquids; "The creek spun its course through the woods"
- twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretation; "The President's spokesmen had to spin the story to make it less embarrassing"
- work natural fibers into a thread; "spin silk"