noun.
A throw or fall, as from a saddle or a vehicle.
noun.
A downpour; a flood.
To inlay, diversify, or piece out with spills, splinters, or chips; cover with small patches resembling spills. In the quotation it denotes inlaying with small pieces of ivory.
noun.
A splinter; a chip.
noun.
A little bar or pin; a peg.
noun.
A slip or strip of wood or paper meant for use as a lamplighter.
noun.
A small peg or pin for stopping a cask; a spile: as, a vent-hole stopped with a spill.
noun.
The spindle of a spinning-wheel.
noun.
A trifling sum of money; a small fee.
To destroy; kill; slay.
To injure; mar; spoil; ruin.
To waste; squander; spend.
To suffer or cause to flow out or become lost; shed: used especially of blood, as in wilful killing.
To suffer to fall or run out accidentally and wastefully, and not as by pouring: said of fluids or of substances in fine grains or powder, such as flour or sand: as, to spill wine; to spill salt.
To let out; let leak out; divulge: said of matters concealed.
Nautical, to discharge the wind from, as from the belly of a sail, in order to furl or reef it.
To throw, as from the saddle or a vehicle; overthrow.
Synonyms Splash, etc. See slop.
To kill; slay; destroy; spread ruin.
To come to ruin or destruction; perish; die.
To be wasteful or prodigal.
To run out and become shed or wasted.
noun.
plural The thin layers or filaments of cinder in wrought-iron bars of poor quality due to imperfect working of the metal in squeezer, hammer, or roll treatment.
To brace or stay a drift or adit with piles.