*spoon*

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

2. same as teaspoonful. [ PJC ]