Obs. rare. [Irregularly f. L. spatha, or alteration of SPATTER sb.1] A spattle or spatula.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, III. xxxix. 1178. Of this there is made a profitable spather or slice to be vsed in making of compounde plaisters and pessaries.
1657. Physical Dict., B iv, Albation, is the abstraction of Dust … with a Hares foot, feather, spather, or such like.
So † Spathern. Obs. rare.
1634. T. Johnson, Parey’s Chirurg., III. xxix. 121. I have sometimes seen such passages so open, that they would receive the head of a Spathern [F. espatule]. Ibid., XV. vi. 567. That bone which is deprest must be lifted up with a spatherne, or little sticke.
