SPage 420
- English Word Speke Definition To speak.
- English Word Spekehouse Definition The parlor or reception room of a convent.
- English Word Speking Definition The act of uttering words.
- English Word Speking Definition Public declamation; oratory.
- English Word Spelding Definition A haddock or other small fish split open and dried in the sun; -- called also speldron.
- English Word Spelicans Definition See Spilikin.
- English Word Spelk Definition A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter.
- English Word Spell Definition A spelk, or splinter.
- English Word Spell Definition To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.
- English Word Spell Definition The relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spell at the pumps; a spell at the masthead.
- English Word Spell Definition The time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days, or weeks.
- English Word Spell Definition One of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells.
- English Word Spell Definition A gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell.
- English Word Spell Definition A story; a tale.
- English Word Spell Definition A stanza, verse, or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm.
- English Word Spell Definition To tell; to relate; to teach.
- English Word Spell Definition To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
- English Word Spell Definition To constitute; to measure.
- English Word Spell Definition To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, esp. the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography.
- English Word Spell Definition To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; -- usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible.
- English Word Spell Definition To form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing.
- English Word Spell Definition To study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study.
- English Word Spellable Definition Capable of being spelt.
- English Word Spellbound Definition Bound by, or as by, a spell.
- English Word Spelled Definition of Spell
- English Word Spelled Definition of Spell
- English Word Speller Definition One who spells.
- English Word Speller Definition A spelling book.
- English Word Spellful Definition Abounding in spells, or charms.
- English Word Spelling Definition of Spell