A small peg or pin for stopping a cask; as a vent hole stopped with a spill.

A little bar or pin of iron.

A little sum of money.

pret. spilled or spilt; pp. id.

To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose to suffer to be scattered; applied only to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose. Thus we spill water from a pail; we spill spirit or oil from a bottle; we spill quicksilver or powders form a vessel or a paper; we spill sand or flour.

To suffer to be shed; as, a man spills his own blood.

To cause to flow out or lose; to shed; as, a man spills another’s blood.

To mischief; to destroy; as, to spill the mind or soul; to spill glory; to spill forms.

TO throw away.' .

In seamen’s language, to discharge the wind out of the cavity or belly of a sail.

To waste; to be prodigal.

TO be shed; to be suffered to fall, he lost or wasted. He was so topfull of himself, that he let it spill on all the company.