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- English Word Spill Definition To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.
- English Word Spilled Definition of Spill
- English Word Spiller Definition One who, or that which, spills.
- English Word Spiller Definition A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter.
- English Word Spillet fishing Definition Alt. of Spilliard fishing
- English Word Spilliard fishing Definition A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
- English Word Spillikin Definition See Spilikin.
- English Word Spilling Definition of Spill
- English Word Spilling Definition of Spill
- English Word Spillway Definition A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.
- English Word Spilt Definition of Spill
- English Word Spilt Definition of Spill
- English Word Spilt Definition imp. & p. p. of Spill. Spilled.
- English Word Spilter Definition Any one of the small branches on a stag's head.
- English Word Spilth Definition Anything spilt, or freely poured out; slop; effusion.
- English Word Spin Definition To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material.
- English Word Spin Definition To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process, or by degrees; to extend to a great length; -- with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject.
- English Word Spin Definition To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness.
- English Word Spin Definition To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to spin a top.
- English Word Spin Definition To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
- English Word Spin Definition To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
- English Word Spin Definition To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness.
- English Word Spin Definition To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis.
- English Word Spin Definition To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein.
- English Word Spin Definition To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.
- English Word Spin Definition The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle.
- English Word Spin Definition Velocity of rotation about some specified axis.
- English Word Spina bifida Definition A congenital malformation in which the spinal column is cleft at its lower portion, and the membranes of the spinal cord project as an elastic swelling from the gap thus formed.
- English Word Spinaceous Definition Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant spinach, or the family of plants to which it belongs.
- English Word Spinach Definition Alt. of Spinage