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Definition of Spill
| n. | 1. | A bit of wood split off; a splinter. | | 2. | A slender piece of anything. | | 3. | A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile. | | 3. | A little sum of money. | | 4. | A metallic rod or pin. | | 5. | A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc. | | 6. | (Mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground. | | v. t. | 1. | To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay. | | 1. | To destroy; to kill; to put an end to. | | 2. | To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste. | | 3. | 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. | | 4. | 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. | | 5. | (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. | | v. i. | 1. | To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste. | | 2. | To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted. |
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