*spie*

n. 1. A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who espies. Harmar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. frontispice, LL. frontispicium beginning, front of a church, fr. L. frons front + spicere, specere, to look at, view: cf. It. frontispizio. See Front and Spy. ] The part which first meets the eye; as: (a) (Arch.) The principal front of a building. [ Obs. or R. ] (b) An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G.; glocke bell + spiel play. ] (Music) An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ G., fr. krieg war + spiel play. ] A game of war, played for practice, on maps. Farrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G.; singen to sing + spiel to play. ] (Music) A dramatic work, partly in dialogue and partly in song, of a kind popular in Germany in the latter part of the 18th century. It was often comic, had modern characters, and patterned its music on folk song with strictly subordinated accompaniment. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

imp. & p. p. of Spy. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G. spiegel mirror + eisen iron. ] See Spiegel iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ G. spiegel mirror + E. iron. ] (Metal.) A fusible white cast iron containing a large amount of carbon (from three and a half to six per cent) and some manganese. When the manganese reaches twenty-five per cent and upwards it has a granular structure, and constitutes the alloy ferro manganese, largely used in the manufacture of Bessemer steel. Called also specular pig iron, spiegel, and spiegeleisen. [ 1913 Webster ]