SPILL
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Spill (?), n. [√170. Cf. Spell a splinter.] 1. A bit of wood split off; a splinter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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2. A slender piece of anything. Specifically: --
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(a) A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
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(b) A metallic rod or pin.
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(c) A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
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(d) (Mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
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3. A little sum of money. [Obs.] Ayliffe.
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Spill, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spilt (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Spilling.] To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Spill (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spilled (?), or Spilt (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Spilling.] [OE. spillen,sually, to destroy, AS. spillan, spildan, to destroy; akin to Icel. spilla to destroy, Sw. spilla to spill, Dan. spilde, G. & D. spillen to squander, OHG. spildan.] 1. To destroy; to kill; to put an end to. [Obs.]
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And gave him to the queen, all at her will
To choose whether she would him save or spill.
Chaucer.
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Greater glory think [it] to save than spill.
Spenser.
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2. To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste. [Obs.]
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They [the colors] disfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship.
Puttenham.
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Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in recreations.
Fuller.
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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.
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&hand_; Spill differs from pour in expressing accidental loss, -- a loss or waste contrary to purpose.
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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.
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And to revenge his blood so justly spilt.
Dryden.
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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.
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Spilling line (Naut.), a rope used for spilling, or dislodging, the wind from the belly of a sail. Totten.
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Spill, v. i. 1. To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste. [Obs.]
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That thou wilt suffer innocents to spill.
Chaucer.
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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.” I. Watts.
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