The act of an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
A new idea, especially one which arises suddenly and is clever or creative.
A person, object, or situation which quickens or stimulates an influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm, as part of the act of respiration.
A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies people to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.
A breath, a single inhalation.
Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
Ergotized rye or other grain.
A tern.
A branch of a vein.
A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
A jab given with the spurs.
Roots, tree roots.
A very short branch line of a railway line.
The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
A 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.
A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
A 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.
A 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.
An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
The short wooden buttress of a post.
A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
To press forward; to travel in great haste.
To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
To form a spur (senses 17-18 of the noun)
To put spurs on.