a. Wanting in punctilious respect; discourteous. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That were dispunct to the ladies. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See 1st Dispunge. ] To expunge. [ Obs. ] Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. dispungere to prick apart, i. e., check off the debts and credits of an account; dis- + pungere to prick. ] To expunge; to erase. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Disponge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without penal restraint; not punishable. [ R. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Firmly twisted in spinning. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain. “Homespun country garbs.” W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse. “Our homespun English proverb.” Dryden. “Our homespun authors.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An unpolished, rustic person. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious. [ 1913 Webster ]

The longspun allegories fulsome grow,
While the dull moral lies too plain below. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To punctuate wrongly or incorrectly. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

Spun hay, hay twisted into ropes for convenient carriage, as on a military expedition. --
Spun silk, a cheap article produced from floss, or short-fibered, broken, and waste silk, carded and spun, in distinction from the long filaments wound from the cocoon. It is often mixed with cotton. --
Spun yarn (Naut.), a line formed of two or more rope-yarns loosely twisted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sponge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gael. spong, or Ir. sponc, tinder, sponge; cf. AS. sponge a sponge (L. spongia), spōn a chip. Cf. Sponge, Punk. ] [ Written also sponk. ] 1. Wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of tinder made from a species of fungus; punk; amadou. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An inflammable temper; spirit; mettle; pluck; as, a man of spunk. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A lawless and dangerous set, men of spunk, and spirit, and power, both of mind and body. Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Spunkier superl. Spunkiest. ] Full of spunk; quick; spirited. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]