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   Spill , n. [√170. Cf. Spell a splinter.]
   A bit of wood split off; a splinter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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   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 on top of a set of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
   Syn. -- forepole; spile{4}.
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   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 ; p. pr. & vb. n. Spilling.] [OE. spillen, usually, to destroy, AS. spillan, spildan, to destroy; akin to Icel. spilla to destroy, Sw. spilla to spill, Dan. spilde, LG. & D. spillen to squander, OHG. spildan.]
   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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   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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   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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   ☞ Spill differs from pour in expressing accidental loss, -- a loss or waste contrary to purpose.
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   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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   (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.
   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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   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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