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Spelling   /spˈɛlɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Spelling  n.  The act of one who spells; formation of words by letters; orthography.


verb
Spell  v. t.  (past & past part. spelled; pres. part. spelling)  To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.


Spell  v. t.  (past & past part. spelt or spelled; pres. part. spelling)  
1.
To tell; to relate; to teach. (Obs.) "Might I that legend find, By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes."
2.
To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm. "Spelled with words of power." "He was much spelled with Eleanor Talbot."
3.
To constitute; to measure. (Obs.) "The Saxon heptarchy, when seven kings put together did spell but one in effect."
4.
To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, esp. the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography. "The word "satire" ought to be spelled with i, and not with y."
5.
To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible. "To spell out a God in the works of creation." "To sit spelling and observing divine justice upon every accident."


Spell  v. i.  (past & past part. spelt or spelled; pres. part. spelling)  
1.
To form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing. "When what small knowledge was, in them did dwell, And he a god, who could but read or spell."
2.
To study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study. (Obs.) "Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew."


adjective
Spelling  adj.  Of or pertaining to spelling.
Spelling bee, a spelling match. (U.S.)
Spelling book, a book with exercises for teaching children to spell; a speller.
Spelling match, a contest of skill in spelling words, between two or more persons.





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... name BURNES; Robert early adopted the orthography BURNESS from his cousin in the Mearns; and in his twenty-eighth year changed it once more to BURNS. It is plain that the last transformation was not made without some qualm; for in addressing his cousin he adheres, in at least one more letter, to spelling number two. And this, again, shows a man preoccupied about the manner of his appearance even down to the name, and little willing to follow custom. Again, he was proud, and justly proud, of his powers in conversation. ...
— Familiar Studies of Men & Books • Robert Louis Stevenson
... Russian spelling of this word is said to be Tsar, which is now gradually coming into use in English. The title was first assumed by Ivan IV. (Ivan ...
— The Two Great Retreats of History • George Grote
... Punctuation, spelling and obvious printer's errors have been corrected. Footnotes from the original text have been collated at the end of this e-book and references to them have been amended according to the new footnote ...
— Life Immovable - First Part • Kostes Palamas
... philosophos, a man who acquires wisdom by means of love, or philokerdes, a man who makes money by means of love? In fact, it requires no Bentley or Casaubon to perceive that Philarchus is merely a false spelling for Phylarchus, the chief of a tribe. Mr. Croker has favoured us with some Greek of his own. "At the altar," says Dr. Johnson, "I recommended my th ph." "These letters," says the editor, "(which Dr. Strahan seems not to have understood) probably mean ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... December, McNamara issued a directive spelling out his department's obligations under the act's controversial Title VI, Nondiscrimination in Federally Assisted Programs.[23-36] This directive was one of a series requested by the White House from various governmental agencies and reviewed by the Justice Department and the Bureau of the Budget ...
— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.


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