2. Verb. (third-person singular of spell) ¹
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Definition of Spells
1. spell [v] - See also: spell
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spells
Literary usage of Spells
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1907)
"Fear of spells and Charms Senate Report no. J27, 44 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 1052. ...
Je would — as they always believed in what they called "spells" or "charms" ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1835)
"spells of the Heart. which have been already quoted, Columbia College may point
to the catalogue of her more recent graduates, and boast, as she mourns ..."
3. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... With one fair form to grace his side, Or, in some wild and lone retreat, Flung
her high spells around his seat, 690 Bathed in her dews his languid head, ..."
4. Teutonic mythology by Jacob Grimm, James Steven Stallybrass (1888)
"spells. I. A3. spell for pricking pains. Harl. MSS. no. 585. fol. ... Many more AS.
spells might be culled oat of MSS. cited by Wanley, pp. 44. 83. 223. ..."
5. Biographic Clinics by George Milbry Gould (1907)
"A CASE IN WHICH "SINKING spells"—"THOUSANDS OF THEM ... vomiting, and "swooning
fits," or "fainting spells." I class the vomiting as a separate symptom, ..."
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