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Spelt v. t. & v. i. To split; to break; to spalt. (Obs.)

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."

Spelt v. Imp. & p. p. of Spell. Spelled.

noun

Spelt n. (Bot.) A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; called also German wheat.

Spelt n. (Metal.) Spelter. (Colloq.)

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Etymology of 'Spelt'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spelt" Quotes from Famous Books

... depart from the princely stock which had begun the war, until it should be altogether destroyed. The royalists, on the other hand, found in it a great source of regret; while Catharine, terrified at the danger to which her son might be exposed, wrote one of her ill-spelt letters to Montpensier, entreating him and the other veterans not to suffer any of the princes to go ...

— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird

... and their answers. I have substituted riddles from the first English collection of riddles, The Demandes Joyous of Wynkyn de Worde, for the poor ones of the original, which are besides not solved. "Ettin" is the English spelling of the word, as it is thus spelt in a passage of Beaumont and Fletcher (Knight of Burning Pestle, i. 1), which may refer to this very story, which, as we shall see, is quite as ...

— English Fairy Tales • Joseph Jacobs (coll. & ed.)

... by which Mr. Joseph Tasker was to order his life was framed and hung in the pantry. He studied it with care, and, anxious that there should be no possible chance of a misunderstanding, questioned the spelling in three instances. The captain's explanation that he had spelt those words in the American style was an untruthful reflection upon ...

— Dialstone Lane, Complete • W.W. Jacobs

... quickly her mind worked! It was like acid, testing and comparing; and yet its action was soft and caressing when she remembered his figure and his voice—some of the little gestures, some turns of speech, his sturdy contempt for what he called "yobs," which she discovered to be the word "boys" spelt in an unfamiliar way. Those were the things she loved. The rest she had exploited. The mixture of pleasure and tactics filled her with delicious ...

— Coquette • Frank Swinnerton

... was to be remarked, an undue preponderance of that despicably common stamp, the French twenty-five centimes. And here joining them in stealthy review, I found the C and the CH; then something of an A just following; and then a terminal Y. Here was also the whole name spelt out to me; it seemed familiar, too; and yet for some time I could not bridge the imperfection. Then I came upon another stamp, in which an L was legible before the Y, and in a moment the word leaped up complete. Chailly, that was the ...

— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

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