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▪ I. spath1 Now rare.|spæθ|
[a. G. spath, var. spelling of spat (spat n.3), spad (spaad), MHG. and MLG. spat, spât. Hence also Du. spaath, Da. and Sw. spat; F. spath, It. spato, Sp. and Pg. espato.]
= spar n.2
1763W. Lewis Phil. Comm. Arts 144 A friable opake stone called white spath, which appears to be a kind of gypsum. 1794R. J. Sulivan View Nat. I. 73 The crystallizations which are found in granite, are almost always of a siliceous substance, quartz: whereas marble has always spath, which is a calcareous one. 1803Med. Jrnl. IX. 494 These layers imitate..closely calcareous spath. 1886Leeds Mercury 15 Feb. 5/6 The lens coincides with the principal chrystallographic axis of the Spath.
▪ II. spath2
variant of spathe.
1834Penny Cycl. II. 371/2 Bows made from the spath (σπαθη) of the palm.., six feet long. 1889Science-Gossip XXV. 184/1 The spath is thrown up from the tuber at a different period. |