Word Meanings - SPARKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A spark arrester.

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• SPARKER
  A spark arrester.
• SPARKLING
  Emitting sparks; glittering; flashing; brilliant; lively; as, sparkling wine; sparkling eyes. -- Spar"kling*ly, adv. -- Spar"kling*ness, n. Syn. -- Brilliant; shining. See Shining.
• SPARK GAP
  The space filled with air or other dielectric between high potential terminals (as of an electrostatic machine, induction coil, or condenser), through which the discharge passes; the air gap of a jump spark.
• SPARKLER
  One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person.
• SPARKLE
  1. A little spark; a scintillation. As fire is wont to quicken and go From a sparkle sprungen amiss, Till a city brent up is. Chaucer. The shock was sufficiently strong to strike out some sparkles of his fiery temper. Prescott. 2. Brilliancy;
• SPARKLINESS
  Vivacity. Aubrey.
• ARRESTER
  1. One who arrests.
• SPARK COIL
  An induction coil, esp. of an internal-combustion engine, wireless telegraph apparatus, etc. A self-induction coil used to increase the spark in an electric gas-lighting apparatus.
• SPARKISH
  1. Like a spark; airy; gay. W. Walsh. 2. Showy; well-dresed; fine. L'Estrange.
• SPARKLET
  A small spark.
• SPARKFUL
  Lively; brisk; gay. "Our sparkful youth." Camden.
• SPARK
  cf. Icel. spraka to crackle, Lith. spragëti, Gr. sph to crackle, to 1. A small particle of fire or ignited substance which is emitted by a body in combustion. Man is born unto trouble, as hte sparks fly upward. Job v. 7. 2. A small, shining body,
• SPARK PLUG
  In internal-combustion engines with electric ignition, a plug, screwed into the cylinder head, having through it an insulated wire which is connected with the induction coil or magneto circuit on the outside, and forms, with another terminal on
• OUTSPARKLE
  To exceed in sparkling.
• DISPARK
  1. To throw ; to treat as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor. 2. To set at large; to release from inclosure. Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark
• DISPARKLE
  To scatter abroad. Holland.
• JUMP SPARK
  A spark produced by the jumping of electricity across a permanent gap.