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1. A reduction in consumer cost (usually for a limited time) for items or services rendered.

   We're running a special on turkey for Thanksgiving.

2. One of a rotation of meals systematically offered for a lower price at a restaurant.

   Today's special is our tuna melt on rye.

3. Unusual or exceptional episode of a series.

   Did you see the Christmas special?

4. A special constable.
5. Anything that is not according to normal practice, plan, or schedule, as an unscheduled run of transportation that is normally scheduled.

   Thousands came to see the special that carried the President's coffin.

6. Any unlicensed medicine produced or obtained for a specific individual patient.
7. A correspondent; a journalist sent to the scene of an event to report back.
8. A dispatch sent back by a special correspondent.
9. A light that illuminates a specific person or thing on the stage.

1. To form (a word) from its component letters.

   He used Scrabble tiles to spell out "I LOVE YOU".

2. To explain in clear and simple terms.

   Here is a brochure that spells out the benefits.

1. The act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography.
2. The manner of spelling of words; correct spelling.
3. A specific spelling of a word.
4. A spelling test or spelling bee.

1. A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
2. A jab given with the spurs.
3. Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
4. An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
5. Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
6. Roots, tree roots.
7. A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
8. A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
9. A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
10. The short wooden buttress of a post.
11. A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
12. Ergotized rye or other grain.
13. A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
14. A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
15. A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
16. A branch of a vein.
17. A very short branch line of a railway line.
18. A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.

noun

A tern.

noun

A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.

noun

The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.