KJV Dictionary Definition: spill

spill

SPILL, n. a different orthography of spile, supra.

1. A small peg or pin for stopping a cask; as a vent hole stopped with a spill.

2. A little bar or pin of iron.

3. A little sum of money. Not in use.

SPILL, v.t. pret. spilled or spilt; pp. id.

1. To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose to suffer to be scattered; applied only to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose. Thus we spill water from a pail; we spill spirit or oil from a bottle; we spill quicksilver or powders form a vessel or a paper; we spill sand or flour.

2. To suffer to be shed; as, a man spills his own blood.

3. To cause to flow out or lose; to shed; as, a man spills another's blood. This is applied to cases of murder or other homicide, but not to venesection. In the later case we say, to let or take blood.

4. To mischief; to destroy; as, to spill the mind or soul; to spill glory; to spill forms, &c. This application is obsolete and now improper.

5. TO throw away.

6. In seamen's language, to discharge the wind out of the cavity or belly of a sail.

SPILL, v.i.

1. To waste; to be prodigal. Not in use.

2. TO be shed; to be suffered to fall, he lost or wasted. He was so topfull of himself, that he let it spill on all the company.

spilled

SPILL'ED, pp. Suffered to fall, as liquids; shed.

spilling

SPILL'ING, ppr. Suffering to fall or run out, as liquids; shedding.