Days in Session of the U.S. Congress. Days in Session calendars from previous Congresses link to official, House or Senate published documents. Calendars from the current Congress will be replaced when the final official documents become available. Learn more about legislative calendars and schedules.
â¢ SPINY (adjective) The adjective SPINY has 2 senses: 1. having spines. 2. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. Familiarity information: SPINY used as an adjective is rare.
mid-14c., female spinner of thread, from Middle English spinnen (see spin) + -stere, feminine suffix. Spinning commonly done by unmarried women, hence the word came to denote an unmarried woman in legal documents from 1600s to early 1900s, and by 1719 was being used generically for woman still unmarried and beyond the usual age for it..