(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.
