Definition of Sperry

1. Noun. United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Sperry

Spens' syndrome
Spenser
Spenserian
Spenserian sonnet
Spenserian sonnets
Spenserian stanza
Spenserians
Spenserism
Spenserisms
Spergula
Spergula arvensis
Spergularia
Spergularia rubra
Sperry (current term)
Spetsai
Spetse
Spetses
Spey
Speyer
Sphacele
Sphacele calycina
Sphacelotheca
Sphacelotheca reiliana
Sphaeralcea
Sphaeralcea coccinea
Sphaeralcea fasciculata
Sphaeralcea remota
Sphaeriaceae

Literary usage of Sperry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut by Sarah Johnson Prichard (1896)
"Abigail Sperry m. Jonathan Scott, 1736. Alfred C. Sperry of Bethany m. Harriet A. Isbell, Sept. ... Allen Sperry and Abigail from North- field:1 Polly, bap. ..."

2. The Proceedings of the Hague Peace Conferences: Translation of the Original by James Brown Scott (1921)
"Rear Admiral Sperry considers the wording too broad and would like to ... Rear Admiral Sperry having concurred in this wording, it is accepted by the ..."

3. The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: Ed. Under the Authority of the by Ezra Stiles (1901)
"Visited aged Mr. Joseph Sperry set. 76, & Son, who gave me accor of the first accession of the famy, the Traditions of the Regicides, Col Whaley, Col. ..."

4. Men of Mark in Connecticut: Ideals of American Life Told in Biographies and edited by Norris Galpin Osborn (1907)
"Richard Sperry, one of his paternal forbears, came to America in 1643 as a representative of the Earl of Warwick. The land allotted to him in New Haven ..."

5. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals, who Have Been Condemned and Executed by Arthur L. Hayward (1873)
"After the Expiration i ' this Term, William Sperry went to live at Phi,.- delphia, the Capital of Pennsylvania, one of the be-' Plantations the English have ..."

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