| Spill (spill) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Spill |
| [***radic]170. Cf.
Spell a splinter.] |
A bit of wood split
off; a splinter.
A slender piece of anything.
A little sum of money.
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To cover or decorate with slender pieces of
wood, metal, ivory, etc.] to inlay.
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| Spill (spill) |
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| v. t. | (?) |
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| Spill |
| [imp. *** p.
p. Spilled (? |
To destroy] to kill; to put
an end to.
To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to
destroy by misuse; to waste.
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.
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.
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.
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To
be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to
waste.
To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and
be lost or wasted.
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