Spill

n.
  1. A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
  2. A slender piece of anything.
  3. A little sum of money.
    1. A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
    2. A metallic rod or pin.
    3. A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.

v. t.
  1. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.

v. t.
  1. To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
  2. To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  6. Spilling line (Naut.),
    a rope used for spilling, or dislodging, the wind from the belly of a sail.

v. i.
  1. To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
  2. To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.