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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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"Spill" Quotes from Famous Books



... she uses a homely illustration by preference. "Independence," she says, "in an absolute sense is an impossibility. The nature of things is against it. The human soul was not made to contain itself. It was made to spill over, and it does and will spill over, always as quid pro quo, wherever lodged, to the end of time."... "There is a vast amount of thinking which ought to be in the market. We hold our best thoughts and give our second best."... "We do ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 • Various
... Imp, as the light fell on his rear wheel. "Another quarter of a mile and I would have had a spill and ...
— The Mystery at Putnam Hall - The School Chums' Strange Discovery • Arthur M. Winfield
... roses growing wild About her features when she smiled Were ever dewed with tears that fell With tenderness ineffable; Because her lips might spill a kiss That, dripping in a world like this, Would tincture death's myrrh-bitter stream To sweetness—so ...
— Riley Love-Lyrics • James Whitcomb Riley
... end. Caught upon its prickly angle, however, there was a very small and very dirty scrap of paper that might have hung there for months, since it escaped from someone tearing up a letter or making a spill out of a newspaper. Turnbull snatched at it and found it was the corner of a printed page, very coarsely printed, like a cheap novelette, and just large enough to contain the words: "et ...
— The Ball and The Cross • G.K. Chesterton
... "Well, spill the rest of it," groaned Jimmy as he shifted from one side to the other in the hope of relieving the pain that gnawed at his vitals. ...
— The Radio Boys' First Wireless - Or Winning the Ferberton Prize • Allen Chapman


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