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spilt 音标拼音: [sp'ɪlt] = spillSpill \ Spill\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Spilt} ( sp[ i^] lt); p. pr. & vb. n. { Spilling}.] To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay. [ Obs.] -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster]
Spill \ Spill\ ( sp[ i^] l), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Spilled} ( sp[ i^] ld), or { Spilt} ( sp[ i^] lt); p. pr. & vb. n. { Spilling}.] [ OE. spillen, usually, to destroy, AS. spillan, spildan, to destroy; akin to Icel. spilla to destroy, Sw. spilla to spill, Dan. spilde, LG. & D. spillen to squander, OHG. spildan.] 1. To destroy; to kill; to put an end to. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] And gave him to the queen, all at her will To choose whether she would him save or spill. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] Greater glory think [ it] to save than spill. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] They [ the colors] disfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship. -- Puttenham. [ 1913 Webster] Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in recreations. -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Spill differs from pour in expressing accidental loss, -- a loss or waste contrary to purpose. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] And to revenge his blood so justly spilt. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] { Spilling line} ( Naut.), a rope used for spilling, or dislodging, the wind from the belly of a sail. -- Totten. [ 1913 Webster]
Spilt \ Spilt\, imp. & p. p. of { Spill}. Spilled. [ 1913 Webster]
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