Definition:
- (n.) A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
- (n.) A slender piece of anything.
- (n.) A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
- (n.) A metallic rod or pin.
- (n.) A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
- (n.) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
- (n.) A little sum of money.
- (v. t.) To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
- (v. t.) To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
- (v. t.) To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
- (v. t.) 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.
- (v. t.) 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.
- (v. t.) 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.) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
- (v. i.) To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.
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spial vs. spill
spill vs. still
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overflow vs. spill
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spew vs. spill
leakage vs. spill
fell vs. spill
slosh vs. spill
flow vs. spill
spill vs. splatter
leak vs. spill
dump vs. spill
bloodshed vs. spill
slop vs. spill
fire vs. spill
spill vs. spillway
flame vs. spill
light vs. spill
spill vs. stumble
paper vs. spill
fall vs. spill
spill vs. spiller
inlay vs. spill
shed vs. spill
pour vs. spill
mess vs. spill
drop vs. spill
spill vs. spread
apron vs. spill