spicula
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of spicula
1740–50; < New Latin spīcula, Medieval Latin, equivalent to Latin spīc ( a ) ear of grain + -ula -ule
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Linguae procacis plumbea spicula, Fidens, superbo frange silentio; Victrix per obstantes catervas Sedulitas animosa tendet.
From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel
The failures they experienced, even their humble successes, were met with sneers and laughter; till at last Hermose held up aloft a little spicula of gold about the thickness of a pencil.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James
As the flakes fall down through the atmosphere, they are joined by more of these radiated spicula, and thus increase in bulk like the drops of rain or hail-stones.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 358, February 28, 1829 by Various
Iudicioque prius ne quis mal� damnet iniquo, Qu� sunt auctoris munera mira Dei: Eripit ipse suis prim�m tela hostibus, inque Mittentis torquet spicula rapta caput.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
Linguæ procacis plumbea spicula, Fidens, superbo frange silentio; Victrix per obstantes catervas Sedulitas animosa tendet.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
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