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Definition of Spials
1. spial [n] - See also: spial
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spials
Literary usage of Spials
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tudor Tracts, 1532-1588 by Albert Frederick Pollard (1903)
"The Lord ABERGAVENNY, being very glad that he had prevented [anticipated] them
in winning the Green, sent out spials [spies'] to understand their nearness, ..."
2. An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature (1896)
"The Lord ABERGAVENNY, being very glad that he had prevented [anticipated'] them
in winning the Green, sent out spials {spies'} to understand their ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1878)
"His lips out of frame," ie are out of order, are not kept in order. Cf.
the expression " loose in the haft." 64. 12. " spials ; " so Spenser, Faery Queene, ..."
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