Obs.–1 [ad. L. spado SPADO1.] A eunuch.

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  Spade in Blount Glossogr. (1656) and hence in Phillips and some later Dicts., properly belongs to SPAYED ppl. a.

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1680.  C. Nesse, Church Hist., 497.

        Vile Rome Adieu, I did thee View,
  But Hence no more will see,
Till Pimp or Punk, or Jade or Spade,
  I do Resolve to be.

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