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n. [ F. harpon, LL. harpo, perh. of Ger. origin, fr. the harp; cf. F. harper to take and grasp strongly, harpe a dog's claw, harpin boathook (the sense of hook coming from the shape of the harp); but cf. also Gr. "a`rph the kite, sickle, and E. harpy. Cf. Harp.] A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, flat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun. [1913 Webster]

Harpoon fork, a kind of hayfork, consisting of a bar with hinged barbs at one end and a loop for a rope at the other end, used for lifting hay from the load by horse power. --
Harpoon gun, a gun used in the whale fishery for shooting the harpoon into a whale. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Harpooned p. pr. & vb. n. Harpooning. ] To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An harpooner. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. harponneur. ] One who throws the harpoon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A part of the breastbone. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He feeleth through the herte-spon the pricke. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Zool.) The duykerbok. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. lampon a drinking song, fr. lampons let us drink, -- the burden of such a song, fr. lamper to guzzle, to drink much and greedily; of German origin, and akin to E. lap to drink. Prob. so called because drinking songs often contain personal slander or satire. ] 1. A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like her who missed her name in a lampoon,
And grieved to find herself decayed so soon. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Any satire ridiculing or mocking a person, activity, or institution by representing its character or behavior in an exaggerated or grotesque form; the representation may be written, filmed, or performed as a live skit, and may be intended as a severe reproach, or as good-natured humor. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Lampooned p. pr. & vb. n. Lampooning. ] To subject to abusive ridicule expressed in a work of art; to make (a person, behavior, or institution) the subject of a lampoon. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Ribald poets had lampooned him. Macaulay.

Syn. -- To libel; defame; satirize; lash. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The writer of a lampoon. “Libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers.” Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of lampooning; a lampoon, or lampoons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Canarese ponne. ] A name for several East Indian, or their wood, used for the masts and spars of vessels, as Calophyllum angustifolium, Calophyllum inophullum, and Sterculia fœtida; -- called also peon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of oil cake prepared from the cocoanut. See Oil cake, under Cake. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From Poona, in Bombay Province, India. ] A style of painting, popular in England in the 19th century, in which a thick opaque color is applied without background and with scarcely any shading, to thin paper, producing flowers, birds, etc., in imitation of Oriental work. Hence:
Poonah brush,
paper,
painter, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

A kind of oil used in India for lamps, and for boiling with dammar for pitching vessels. It is pressed from the seeds of a leguminous tree (Pongamia glabra). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To fish with a spoon bait. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. In croquet, golf, etc., to spoon a ball. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. (Naut.) See Spoom. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We might have spooned before the wind as well as they. Pepys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. spon, AS. spōn, a chip; akin to D. spaan, G. span, Dan. spaan, Sw. spån, Icel. spánn, spónn, a chip, a spoon. √170. Cf. Span-new. ] 1. An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food. [ 1913 Webster ]

“Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon
That shall eat with a fiend, ” thus heard I say. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. [ Slang ] Hood. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Golf) A wooden club with a lofted face. Encyc. of Sport. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Spoon bait (Fishing), a lure used in trolling, consisting of a glistening metallic plate shaped like the bowl of a spoon with a fishhook attached. --
Spoon bit, a bit for boring, hollowed or furrowed along one side. --
Spoon net, a net for landing fish. --
Spoon oar. See under Oar. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To take up in, or as in, a spoon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fishing) To catch by fishing with a spoon bait.

He had with him all the tackle necessary for spooning pike. Mrs. Humphry Ward. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. In croquet, golf, etc., to push or shove (a ball) with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) Any one of several species of wading birds of the genera Ajaja and Platalea, and allied genera, in which the long bill is broadly expanded and flattened at the tip. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The roseate spoonbill of America (Ajaja ajaja), and the European spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) are the best known. The royal spoonbill (Platalea regia) of Australia is white, with the skin in front of the eyes naked and black. The male in the breeding season has a fine crest. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) The shoveler. See Shoveler, 2. (c) The ruddy duck. See under Ruddy. (d) The paddlefish. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having the bill expanded and spatulate at the end. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Spoom + drift. ] Spray blown from the tops of waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Weak-minded; demonstratively fond; as, spooney lovers. [ Spelt also spoony. ] [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Spooneys A weak-minded or silly person; one who is foolishly fond. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There is no doubt, whatever, that I was a lackadaisical young spooney. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The yautia. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Spoonfuls 1. The quantity which a spoon contains, or is able to contain; as, a teaspoonful; a tablespoonful. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, a small quantity. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a spoony manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Food that is, or must be, taken with a spoon; liquid food. “Diet most upon spoon-meats.” Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A gephyrean worm of the genus Thalassema, having a spoonlike proboscis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Scurvy grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. Same as Spooney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Tablespoonfuls As much as a tablespoon will hold; enough to fill a tablespoon. It is usually reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Tampion. ] The stopper of a barrel; a bung. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. tampón a stopper. ] (Irrigation) A piece of wood or sheet metal fitted into a ditch to dam up the water so as to overflow a field. [ U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. same as teaspoonful. [ PJC ]