spode1 rare.
[a. F. spode, or ad. L. spodos (Pliny), Gr. σποδός ashes, dross, dust.]
= spodium.
| 1611 Cotgr., Spodizateur, one that maketh Spode, or getteth soot, &c., from Brasse, by trying, or melting it. Ibid., Spodon de canne, artificiall, or counterfeit Spode, made of the rootes of reedes, and Ox bones burned. [1861 Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. iii. 81 Ivory calcined until it becomes white has been regarded as absorbent:..some therapeutists have termed it Spode or Spodium.] |