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Spark   /spɑrk/   Listen
noun
Spark  n.  
1.
A small particle of fire or ignited substance which is emitted by a body in combustion. "Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward."
2.
A small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle.
3.
That which, like a spark, may be kindled into a flame, or into action; a feeble germ; an elementary principle. "If any spark of life be yet remaining." "Small intellectual spark." "Vital spark of heavenly flame." "We have here and there a little clear light, some sparks of bright knowledge." "Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark."
Spark arrester, a contrivance to prevent the escape of sparks while it allows the passage of gas, chiefly used in the smokestack of a wood-burning locomotive. Called also spark consumer. (U.S.)


Spark  n.  
1.
A brisk, showy, gay man. "The finest sparks and cleanest beaux."
2.
A lover; a gallant; a beau.


verb
Spark  v. i.  
1.
To sparkle. (Obs.)
2.
(Elec.) To produce, or give off, sparks, as a dynamo at the commutator when revolving under the collecting brushes.


Spark  v. i.  To play the spark, beau, or lover. "A sure sign that his master was courting, or, as it is termed, sparking, within."





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"Spark" Quotes from Famous Books



... probably by a spark falling from the landlady's lamp amongst the straw under the staircase) had been extinguished: and Mrs. Sweetbread, who had at length been roused at the back, now made her appearance; and with many expressions ...
— The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 - With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg • Thomas de Quincey
... usurping their revenues and their functions. More timid and less cohesive than the barons, they had quicker brains, more ideas, deeper grievances, and better means of reaching the masses. If resentment of the Sicilian candidature was the spark that fired the train, the clerical opposition showed the barons the method of successful resistance. The rejection of Henry's demands for money in the assemblies of 1257 started the movement that spread to the baronage in the parliaments of 1258. In the two memorable ...
— The History of England - From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) • T.F. Tout
... to the entanglement, he probed the barbed wire carefully with his wand, watching for an ensuing spark. For the Germans more than once had been known to electrify their wires, with fatal results ...
— Bruce • Albert Payson Terhune
... we're a part of. Over there on the other side it's all different, the life, the aims, and the point of view. And here we've got just what you call it—the most wonderful experiment the world ever saw. Great Scott!" he exclaimed, kindling from the spark struck by Thatcher's closing words, "it's prodigious, overwhelming! There mustn't be any question ...
— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson
... at length encamped at Alranstadt, near the plains of Lutsen, whence he sent to the estates of Saxony, to give him an estimate of what they could supply, and obliged them to levy whatever sums he had occasion for: not that he had the least spark of avarice in his nature, but his hatred to Augustus, who had by his injustice made him become his enemy, was so great, that it extended to all those of his country, so far, as to humble and impoverish the ...
— The Fortunate Foundlings • Eliza Fowler Haywood


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