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1.nounA reduction in consumer cost (usually for a limited time) for items or services rendered."We're running a special on turkey for Thanksgiving."
2.nounOne of a rotation of meals systematically offered for a lower price at a restaurant."Today's special is our tuna melt on rye."
3.nounUnusual or exceptional episode of a series."Did you see the Christmas special?"
4.nounA special constable.
5.nounAnything that is not according to normal practice, plan, or schedule, as an unscheduled run of transportation that is normally scheduled."Thousands came to see the special that carried the President's coffin."
6.nounAny unlicensed medicine produced or obtained for a specific individual patient.
7.nounA correspondent; a journalist sent to the scene of an event to report back.
8.nounA dispatch sent back by a special correspondent.
9.nounA light that illuminates a specific person or thing on the stage.
10.verbTo form (a word) from its component letters."He used Scrabble tiles to spell out "I LOVE YOU"."
11.verbTo explain in clear and simple terms."Here is a brochure that spells out the benefits."
12.nounThe act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography.
13.nounThe manner of spelling of words; correct spelling.
14.nounA specific spelling of a word.
15.nounA spelling test or spelling bee.
16.nounA rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
17.nounA jab given with the spurs.
18.nounAnything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
19.nounAn appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
20.nounAny protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
21.nounRoots, tree roots.
22.nounA mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
23.nounA spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
24.nounA brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
25.nounThe short wooden buttress of a post.
26.nounA projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
27.nounErgotized rye or other grain.
28.nounA wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
29.nounA piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
30.nounA curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
31.nounA branch of a vein.
32.nounA very short branch line of a railway line.
33.nounA short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
34.nounA tern.
35.nounA spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
36.nounThe track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.