Spill
n.- A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
- A slender piece of anything.
- A little sum of money.
- A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
- A metallic rod or pin.
- A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
v. t.
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To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
v. t.
- To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
- To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
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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; tospill quicksilver from a vessel; tospill powder from a paper; tospill 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 - (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.
v. i.
- 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.