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Definition of Spight
1. n. & v. Spite.
2. n. A woodpecker. See Speight.
Definition of Spight
1. Noun. (alternative form of speight) ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete spelling of spite) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spight
1. to spite [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: spite
Medical Definition of Spight
1. A woodpecker. See Speight. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spight
Literary usage of Spight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bloody Bridge: And Other Papers Relating to the Insurrection of 1641 by Thomas Fitzpatrick (1903)
"The next extract from same chapter brings up the main question to be discussed
in the present paper: Here I must not omit to mention the keenness and spight ..."
2. The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778: With a Selection from Her by Fanny Burney (1889)
"He had on his favourite scratch, his mob wig, as Mr. Twining calls it; —but in
spight of it he looked as abominably handsome as I think I ever saw him. ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1903)
"... Snook, spight, Stark, Stephens of Texas, Stevens of Minnesota, Sulzer, Swanson,
Täte, Thayer, Thomas of North Carolina, Trimble, Underwood, Vandiver, ..."
4. London: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis by David Hughson (1807)
"... And for thy sacred'st Relict keep her Bones: Since spight of Enry 't cannot
be deny'd, Saint-like she liv'd, and like a Saint she dy'd. ..."
5. An Historical Relation of the Conspiracy of John Lewis, Count de Fieschi by Agostino Mascardi, Hugh Hare (1886)
"... your Treacherous Enemy, in spight of his Pride, and notwithstanding his
Nobility, the station he so much boasts of, will fall a suppliant at your Feet, ..."
6. Dizionario delle lingue italiana ed ingleseby Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti by Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti (1807)
"... and wrote some tragédie* in it, pretending that it was thu properes! verse for
the stage. But his traped'e* are not read, in spight of Go/doni, ..."
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