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Spelling   /spˈɛlɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Spelling  n.  The act of one who spells; formation of words by letters; orthography.


verb
Spell  v. t.  (past & past part. spelled; pres. part. spelling)  To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.


Spell  v. t.  (past & past part. spelt or spelled; pres. part. spelling)  
1.
To tell; to relate; to teach. (Obs.) "Might I that legend find, By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes."
2.
To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm. "Spelled with words of power." "He was much spelled with Eleanor Talbot."
3.
To constitute; to measure. (Obs.) "The Saxon heptarchy, when seven kings put together did spell but one in effect."
4.
To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, esp. the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography. "The word "satire" ought to be spelled with i, and not with y."
5.
To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible. "To spell out a God in the works of creation." "To sit spelling and observing divine justice upon every accident."


Spell  v. i.  (past & past part. spelt or spelled; pres. part. spelling)  
1.
To form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing. "When what small knowledge was, in them did dwell, And he a god, who could but read or spell."
2.
To study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study. (Obs.) "Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew."


adjective
Spelling  adj.  Of or pertaining to spelling.
Spelling bee, a spelling match. (U.S.)
Spelling book, a book with exercises for teaching children to spell; a speller.
Spelling match, a contest of skill in spelling words, between two or more persons.





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"Spelling" Quotes from Famous Books



... them, while some think that William Lewis, Amos Kendall, and others wrote the whole of them, as well as all his public papers. In reading the early letters of Jackson, however, it is clear that they are anything but illiterate, whatever mistakes in spelling and grammatical errors there may be. His ideas were distinct, his sentiments unmistakable; and although he was fond of a kind of spread-eagle eloquence, his views on public questions were generally just and vigorously expressed. A Tennessee ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XII • John Lord
... at once into the library, where Doctor Joyce was spelling over the "Rubbleford Mercury," while Mrs. Joyce sat opposite to him, knitting a fancy jacket for her youngest but one. He was hardly inside the door before he began to expatiate in the wildest manner on the subject of the beautiful ...
— Hide and Seek • Wilkie Collins
... is hoped, been made in this edition. Great care has been taken to get names, dates, and figures rightly given,—points much neglected in most translations, though in some few cases, such as Davoust, the ordinary but not strictly correct spelling has been followed to suit the general reader. The number of references to other works which are given in the notes wall, it is believed, be of use to any one wishing to continue the study of the history of Napoleon, and may preserve them from many of the errors too often committed. The present ...
— Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
... Witter Bynner—the spelling of whose name I defy any one to remember, and envelopes addressed to him must be a collection of curiosities—was born at Brooklyn on the tenth of August, 1881. He was graduated from Harvard in 1902, and addressed his Alma Mater in an Ode To Harvard, published ...
— The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century • William Lyon Phelps
... Barlow taught me my letters, and then spelling; and then, by putting syllables together, I learnt to read. Tommy.—And could not you show me my ...
— The History of Sandford and Merton • Thomas Day


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