spill

1. n. A bit of wood split off; a splinter. Source: opted

2. n. A slender piece of anything. Source: opted

3. n. A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile. Source: opted

4. n. A metallic rod or pin. Source: opted

5. n. A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc. Source: opted

6. n. One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground. Source: opted

7. n. A little sum of money. Source: opted

8. v. t. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay. Source: opted

9. v. t. To destroy; to kill; to put an end to. Source: opted

10. v. t. To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste. Source: opted

11. 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. Source: opted

12. 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. Source: opted

13. 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. Source: opted

14. v. i. To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste. Source: opted

15. v. i. To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted. Source: opted

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