a. [f. as prec. + -ED1.]

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  † 1.  Containing spiculæ. Obs.–1

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1738.  D. Bayne, Gout, 105. Acrimony arises from the different modifications of spiculated salts.

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1794.  R. J. Sulivan, View Nat., I. 308. Blood and oil are globular; corrosive sublimate spiculated; and antimony is in small filaments, like needles.

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  2.  Having the form of a spicula; slender and sharp-pointed.

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1744.  Phil. Trans., XLIII. 186. From its upper End arise five spiculated Aristæ.

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1768.  [R. Dossie], Elaboratory laid open, 218. The spiculated, or needle-like form of the saline concretions.

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  3.  Furnished with sharp points or spikelets.

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1762.  trans. Busching’s Syst. Geog., I. 236. Some whales have Spicula in their jaws…. Of the spiculated kind with a flat back, the chief is the real Greenland Whale.

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1777.  Mason, Eng. Garden, II. 16. Extend a rail of elm, securely arm’d With spiculated paling.

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1836–9.  Todd’s Cycl. Anat., II. 803. The spiculated edges of the cavity protruded into the pelvis.

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