title: Spine with fluid (hieroglyph)
text: # Spine with fluid (hieroglyph)
  
  Spine issuing fluid(?) :
  
  Egyptian hieroglyphs :
  
  The use of the Spine with fluid hieroglyph is for words showing "length", as opposed to 'breadth', (Egyptian usekh-(breadth, width)-for example, the Usekh collar). Some example words for 'length' are: to be long, length, to extend, extended; and for to expand, to dilate, words like: joy, gladness, pleasure, delight.
  
  | Preceded by vulture: a - (unil.) Vulture (hieroglyph) (start of alphabet) | spine with fluid 3w-(3u) | Succeeded by chisel 3b - (phonogram) |
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