Word Meanings - SPUR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sparrow. A tern.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPUR)

• Incentive
• Inducement
• excitation
• rousing
• motive
• stimulus
• spur

Related words: (words related to SPUR)

• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• EXCITATION
  The act of producing excitement ; also, the excitement produced. (more info) 1. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. Bacon.
• ROUSSETTE
  A fruit bat, especially the large species inhabiting the islands of the Indian ocean. It measures about a yard across the expanded wings.
• STIMULUS
  1. A goad; hence, something that rouses the mind or spirits; an incentive; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to labor and action. 2. That which excites or produces a temporary increase of vital action, either in the whole organism or
• INCENTIVELY
  Incitingly; encouragingly.
• ROUSANT
  Rising; -- applied to a bird in the attitude of rising; also, sometmes, to a bird in profile with wings addorsed.
• ROUSER
  A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, rouses. 2. Something very exciting or great.
• MOTIVE
  The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is (more info) 1. That which moves; a mover. Shak. 2. That
• INDUCEMENT
  Matter stated by way of explanatory preamble or introduction to the main allegations of a pleading; a leading to. Syn. -- Motive; reason; influence. See Motive. (more info) 1. The act of inducing, or the state of being induced. 2. That
• ROUSINGLY
  In a rousing manner.
• MOTIVELESS
  Destitute of a motive; not incited by a motive. -- Mo"tive*less*ness, n. G. Eliot.
• ROUSING
  1. Having power to awaken or excite; exciting. I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me. Milton. 2. Very great; violent; astounding; as, a rousing fire; a rousing lie.
• ROUSTABOUT
  A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs.
• INCENTIVE
  1. Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative. Competency is the most incentive to industry. Dr. H. More. 2. Serving to kindle or set on fire. Part incentive reed Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire. Milton.
• TROUSSEAU
  The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.
• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• CARNIVOROUS
  Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
• LUSTROUS
  Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv.
• INDECOROUSNESS
  The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum.
• GYPSIFEROUS
  Containing gypsum.
• PURPURIPAROUS
  Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods.
• CIRROUS
  Cirrose.
• ANANTHEROUS
  Destitute of anthers. Gray.
• MURIATIFEROUS
  Producing muriatic substances or salt.
• POLYSPOROUS
  Containing many spores.
• ONEROUS
  Burdensome; oppressive. "Too onerous a solicitude." I. Taylor. Onerous cause , a good and legal consideration; -- opposed to gratuitous.
• TETTEROUS
  Having the character of, or pertaining to, tetter.
• SEBIPAROUS
  See SEBIFEROUS
• VALOROUS
  Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave; courageous; valiant; intrepid. -- Val"or*ous*ly, adv.
• INNUMEROUS
  Innumerable. Milton.
• SOPORIFEROUS
  Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific. "Soporiferous medicine." Swift. --- Sop`o*rif"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Sop`o*rif"er*ous*ness, n.
• AGATIFEROUS
  Containing or producing agates. Craig.
• ACANTHOPHOROUS
  Spine-bearing. Gray.
• MACROPTEROUS
  Having long wings.