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SPILL, n. [a different orthography of spile, supra.]

1. A small peg or pin for stopping a cask; as a vent hole stopped with a spill.

2. A little bar or pin of iron.

3. A little sum of money. [Not in use.]

SPILL, v.t. pret. spilled or spilt; pp. id.

1. To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose to suffer to be scattered; applied only to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose. Thus we spill water from a pail; we spill spirit or oil from a bottle; we spill quicksilver or powders form a vessel or a paper; we spill sand or flour.

2. To suffer to be shed; as, a man spills his own blood.

3. To cause to flow out or lose; to shed; as, a man spills another's blood. [This is applied to cases of murder or other homicide, but not to venesection. In the later case we say, to let or take blood.]

4. To mischief; to destroy; as, to spill the mind or soul; to spill glory; to spill forms, &c. [This application is obsolete and now improper.]

5. TO throw away.

6. In seamen's language, to discharge the wind out of the cavity or belly of a sail.

SPILL, v.i.

1. To waste; to be prodigal. [Not in use.]

2. TO be shed; to be suffered to fall, he lost or wasted. He was so topfull of himself, that he let it spill on all the company.
1913 Definition
Spill (spill)
n.(?)
Spill
[***radic]170. Cf. Spell a splinter.]
  1. A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
    [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
  2. A slender piece of anything.
    Specifically: --

    (a)

  3. A little sum of money.
    [Obs.] Ayliffe.
  4. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.] to inlay.
    [Obs.] Spenser.
  5. 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.     Chaucer.

    Greater glory think [it] to save than spill. Spenser.

  6. 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. Puttenham.

    Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in recreations. Fuller.

  7. 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.

    * Spill differs from pour in expressing accidental loss, -- a loss or waste contrary to purpose.

  8. 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. Dryden.

  9. 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. Totten.

  10. To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
    [Obs.]

    That thou wilt suffer innocents to spill. Chaucer.

  11. 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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