Spilikin
(Spil"i*kin) n. [OD. spelleken a small pin. See Spill a splinter.] One of a number of small
pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in
a game, as in cribbage. In the plural a game played with such pieces; pushpin. [Written also spillikin,
spilliken.]
Spill
(Spill) n. [&radic170. Cf. Spell a splinter.]
1. A bit of wood split off; a splinter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
2. A slender piece of anything. Specifically: —
(a) A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
(b) A metallic rod or pin.
(c) A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
(d) (Mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing
a level in loose ground.
3. A little sum of money. [Obs.] Ayliffe.
Spill
(Spill), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spilt ; p. pr. & vb. n. Spilling.] To cover or decorate with slender
pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay. [Obs.] Spenser.
Spill
(Spill) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spilled or Spilt ; p. pr. & vb. n. Spilling.] [OE. spillen,sually, to destroy,
AS. spillan, spildan, to destroy; akin to Icel. spilla to destroy, Sw. spilla to spill, Dan. spilde,G. & D.
spillen to squander, OHG. spildan.]
1. To destroy; to kill; to put an end to. [Obs.]
And gave him to the queen, all at her will
To choose whether she would him save or spill.
Chaucer.
Greater glory think [it] to save than spill.
Spenser. 2. To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste. [Obs.]
They [the colors] disfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship.
Puttenham.
Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in recreations.
Fuller. 3. To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; — applied to fluids and to
substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from
a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour.
Spill differs from pour in expressing accidental loss, — a loss or waste contrary to purpose.
4. To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as,
a man spills another's blood, or his own blood.
And to revenge his blood so justly spilt.
Dryden. 5. (Naut.) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled,
or to lessen the strain.
Spilling line (Naut.), a rope used for spilling, or dislodging, the wind from the belly of a sail. Totten.
