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Spill   /spɪl/   Listen
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Spill  v. t.  (past & past part. spilt; pres. part. spilling)  To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay. (Obs.)


Spill  v. t.  (past & past part. spilt or spilled; pres. part. spilling)  
1.
To destroy; to kill; to put an end to. (Obs.) "And gave him to the queen, all at her will To choose whether she would him save or spill." "Greater glory think (it) to save than spill."
2.
To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste. (Obs.) "They (the colors) disfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship." "Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in recreations."
3.
To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour. Note: Spill differs from pour in expressing accidental loss, a loss or waste contrary to purpose.
4.
To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood. "And to revenge his blood so justly spilt."
5.
(Naut.) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
Spilling line (Naut.), a rope used for spilling, or dislodging, the wind from the belly of a sail.


Spill  v. i.  (past & past part. spilt or spilled; pres. part. spilling)  
1.
To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste. (Obs.) "That thou wilt suffer innocents to spill."
2.
To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted. "He was so topful of himself, that he let it spill on all the company."


noun
Spill  n.  
1.
A bit of wood split off; a splinter. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)
2.
A slender piece of anything. Specifically:
(a)
A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
(b)
A metallic rod or pin.
(c)
A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
(d)
(Mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead on top of a set of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
Synonyms: forepole; spile (4).
3.
A little sum of money. (Obs.)





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... advisability of having couches at formal banquets as in the old Roman days. The illustration which she was at the moment affording was scarcely, to Nina's mind, encouraging to her proposition. She smoked rapidly and let the cigarette ashes spill all down the ...
— The Title Market • Emily Post
... hard to tell what was the matter with the Commodore, or to take his troubles seriously. He had slightly scorched hands of course. But then one forgot them in looking at his expressive face made out of flour and soot, and in watching him spill breakfast food and ...
— Virginia: The Old Dominion • Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle Hutchins
... the day it is, goes on forever, that only one small island is subject to the witchery of mathematics, and the proof in commonplace transactions unmixed with the skies that whatever may be the matter with the sun—the earth do move, is round, do roll over, and does not spill off the sea in doing so. At last came shrill head winds, and as we added fifteen miles an hour to this speed, the harp strings in the rigging were touched with weird music, and we filled our lungs consciously and conscientiously with American air, experiencing one of the ...
— The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, • Murat Halstead
... support of the tribe is inadequate for the sustenance of the herd, whose increase is a perennial expansive force. Soon the pastures become filled with the feeding flocks, and then herdsmen and herds spill over into other fields. Often a season of unusual drought, reducing the existing herbage which is scarcely adequate at best, gives rise to those irregular, temporary expansions which enlarge the geographical horizon of the horde, ...
— Influences of Geographic Environment - On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography • Ellen Churchill Semple
... of all work, caused a good deal of amusement in the family circle by writing her instructions in blue pencil on the front of the ash bin. These were: "Strew two shuffefuls of ashes into the volt, but don't spill two shuffefuls onto the floor. By order of the Gurl who has to sweap up." This order was emphatically approved of by those fastidious ones who didn't ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, Sep. 26, 1891 • Various


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