Spill /(spĭl)/

1. A bit of wood split off; a splinter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
2. A slender piece of anything.
3. A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
4. A metallic rod or pin.
5. A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
6. One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead on top of a set of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground. (Mining)
7. A little sum of money. [Obs.]

imp. & p. p. Spilt; p. pr. & vb. n. Spilling

1. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay. [Obs.]

imp. & p. p. Spilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Spilling

1. To destroy; to kill; to put an end to. [Obs.]

   And gave him to the queen, all at her will To choose whether she would him save or spill.

   Greater glory think [it] to save than spill.

2. To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste. [Obs.]

   They [the colors] disfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship.

   Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in recreations.

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.
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.

   And to revenge his blood so justly spilt.

5. 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. (Naut.)

1. To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste. [Obs.]

   That thou wilt suffer innocents to spill.

2. To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.