Spill

·noun A metallic rod or pin.

II. Spill ·noun A little sum of money.

III. Spill ·noun A slender piece of anything.

IV. Spill ·noun A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

V. Spill ·noun A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.

VI. Spill ·vi To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.

VII. Spill ·noun A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, ·etc.

VIII. Spill ·vt To Destroy; to Kill; to put an end to.

IX. Spill ·vt To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, ·etc.; to Inlay.

X. Spill ·noun One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.

XI. Spill ·vi To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to Perish; to Waste.

XII. Spill ·vt 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.

XIII. Spill ·vt To Mar; to Injure; to Deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to Waste.

XIV. Spill ·vt 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.

XV. Spill ·vt 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.