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- English Word Spelling Definition of Spell
- English Word Spelling Definition The act of one who spells; formation of words by letters; orthography.
- English Word Spelling Definition Of or pertaining to spelling.
- English Word Spellken Definition A theater.
- English Word Spellwork Definition Power or effect of magic; that which is wrought by magic; enchantment.
- English Word Spelt Definition of Spell
- English Word Spelt Definition imp. & p. p. of Spell. Spelled.
- English Word Spelt Definition A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also German wheat.
- English Word Spelt Definition Spelter.
- English Word Spelt Definition To split; to break; to spalt.
- English Word Spelter Definition Zinc; -- especially so called in commerce and arts.
- English Word Spelunc Definition A cavern; a cave.
- English Word Spence Definition A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry.
- English Word Spence Definition The inner apartment of a country house; also, the place where the family sit and eat.
- English Word Spencer Definition One who has the care of the spence, or buttery.
- English Word Spencer Definition A short jacket worn by men and by women.
- English Word Spencer Definition A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802].
- English Word Spend Definition To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
- English Word Spend Definition To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
- English Word Spend Definition To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
- English Word Spend Definition To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.
- English Word Spend Definition To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.
- English Word Spend Definition To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.
- English Word Spend Definition To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.
- English Word Spend Definition To be diffused; to spread.
- English Word Spend Definition To break ground; to continue working.
- English Word Spender Definition One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
- English Word Spending Definition of Spend
- English Word Spending Definition The act of expending; expenditure.
- English Word Spendthrift Definition One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively.