[spen-ser] 
| 1. | a short, close-fitting jacket, frequently trimmed with fur, worn in the 19th century by women and children. |
| 2. | a man's close-fitting jacket, having a collar and lapels and reaching just below the waist, worn in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. |
| 3. | an English wig of the 18th century. |
[spen-ser] | a large gaff sail used abaft a square-rigged foremast or abaft the mainmast of a ship or bark. |
[spen-ser] | 1. | Charles, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, 1674–1722, British statesman: prime minister 1718–21. |
| 2. | Herbert, 1820–1903, English philosopher. |
| 3. | Platt Rogers [plat] , 1800–64, U.S. calligrapher and teacher of penmanship. |
| 4. | a town in NW Iowa. 11,726. |
| 5. | a town in central Massachusetts. 10,774. |
| 6. | a male given name. |
[spen-ser] | a .52 caliber, lever-action repeating rifle and carbine patented in the U.S. in 1860 and used by the Union army and navy in the Civil War. |
| spen·cer 1 (spěn'sər) n. Nautical A trysail. [Perhaps from the name Spencer.] |
| spen·cer 2 (spěn'sər) n.
[After George John Spencer, Second Earl Spencer (1758-1834).] |
| Spen·cer (spěn'sər) British philosopher who attempted to apply the theory of evolution to philosophy and ethics in his series Synthetic Philosophy (1855-1893). |
