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Webster 1913 Edition

(spăn′nūˊ)

Adj.

[Icel.

spānnȳr

, properly, new as a ship just split;

spānn

chip +

nȳr

new. See

, and

Quite new; brand-new; fire-new.

“A span-new archbishop’s chair.”

Fuller.

Adj.

Quite new; probably bright-new.

span-new ‎(comparative more span-new, superlative most span-new)