- 08.106 as he danced on the spider-string
This word does not appear in OED.
hyphen
Spider-rope
- 08.102 only great strands of double-thick spider-rope
This word is not found in OED.
Spider-poison
- 08.107 and ill from spider-poison,
This word does not appear in OED.
Spider-colony
- 08.093 in the spider-colony,
This word does not appear in OED.
Spare-rooms
- 01.141 and filled all his spare-rooms
This one has a sub-entry in OED, and a small portion of the examples use the hyphen.
“spare, adj. and adv.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/185644. Accessed 21 September 2017.
South-west
This one is not an inserted hyphen, OED views it as the proper way to express this direction.
- 13.053 at the South-West corner of the Mountain.’
“south-west, adv., adj., and n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 28 July 2015.
South-pointing
Just one of the quick visual images that allows us to draw maps or illustrations in our imaginations. The clarity of Tolkien’s landscape contributes to the depth and “consistency of reality” of his world.
- 13.065 and the great shoulder of the south-pointing mountain-spur
this word is not found in OED.
South-east
Directions half way between the cardinal points are properly hyphenated.
- 17.046 rolling away to the South-East;
Snow-white
- 07.093 in came some snow-white sheep
Hyphenated in its entry, coming from a single word (no hyphen) in Frisian.
“snow-white, adj. and n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/183533. Accessed 21 September 2017.
Snow-peak
- 03.001 and behind its shoulders the tips of snow-peaks gleamed.
Hyphenated in the examples in the sub-entry.
“snow, n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/183487. Accessed 21 September 2017.
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