2. Verb. (chiefly British) (past of spill) ¹
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Definition of Spilt
1. spill [v] - See also: spill
Medical Definition of Spilt
1.
A crack, or longitudinl fissure.
2. A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
3. A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
4. Specif, one of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Spilt
Literary usage of Spilt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great Adventure: Present-day Studies in American Nationalism by Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
"They did not jauntily speak of their sins as spilt milk. ... And those who summoned
the sinners to repent did not tell them not to cry over spilt milk. ..."
2. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1905)
"He eli shadow-outline c rubbing eyes, was the spilt v cracks of th< house-wall
bel 'Look! Is: Sahib. ' But it gan Sahil' minute. Ki Dekko! ..."
3. Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland by John Gregorson Campbell (1900)
"The incident occurred three generations ago. MILK spilt. ... If any milk was
spilt by the dairymaids on their way home with the milk pails, it was a common ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"Piles of silken cushions, with their raw Chinese hues, lay on the sofa and on
the white carpet which they seemed to tinge like great blots of spilt colour. ..."
5. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1859)
"It would not be quite so safe for his father to come amongst us. The blood he
has so wantonly spilt, and all the cruelties he has used towards the people of ..."
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