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Spell   /spɛl/   Listen
Spell

noun
1.
A psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation.  Synonyms: enchantment, trance.
2.
A time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else).  Synonyms: go, tour, turn.  "A spell of work"
3.
A period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition.  Synonyms: patch, piece, while.  "I need to rest for a piece" , "A spell of good weather" , "A patch of bad weather"
4.
A verbal formula believed to have magical force.  Synonyms: charm, magic spell, magical spell.  "Inscribed around its base is a charm in Balinese"
verb
(when related to words: past & past part. spelt or spelled; pres. part. spelling)  (when related to turns: past & past part. spelled; pres. part. spelling)
1.
Orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of.  Synonym: spell out.  "We had to spell out our names for the police officer"
2.
Indicate or signify.  Synonym: import.
3.
Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word).  Synonym: write.
4.
Relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn.
5.
Place under a spell.
6.
Take turns working.



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"Spell" Quotes from Famous Books



... on his way with marks of the deepest respect by waiters, maitres d'hotels and even the manager himself. They behaved, indeed, as they both admitted afterwards, like a couple of moonstruck idiots. When he had finally disappeared, however, they looked at one another and the spell was broken. ...
— The Evil Shepherd • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... mantelpiece hung the portrait of a most beautiful black-haired and black-eyed girl of about fourteen years of age, but upon whose infantile brow fell the shadow of some fearful woe. There was something awful in the despair "on that face so young" that bound the gazer in an irresistible and most painful spell. And Capitola remained standing before it transfixed, until the striking of the hall clock aroused her from her enchantment. Wondering who the young creature could have been, what had been her history ...
— Capitola's Peril - A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand' • Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth
... is it no better, eh?" And as the men were halted just then for a breathing spell, he gave him a bit of good advice. "Take off your shoe and go barefoot; the cool earth ...
— The Downfall • Emile Zola
... "The spell is still on me," she answered. "When I have thrown my whole soul into anything, I lose my own identity for many hours. I wish," she continued, "that I did not so thoroughly enter into those characters. I hardly realize this moment whether I am Anne Boleyn, the unhappy wife of ...
— A Mad Love • Bertha M. Clay
... snap is over and the snow is gone. Not long after the Bluebird, comes the Robin, sometimes in March, but in most of the northern states April is the month of his arrival. With his first utterance the spell of winter is broken, and the remembrance of it afar off. Then appears the Woodpecker in great variety, the Flicker usually arriving first. He is always somebody's old favorite, "announcing his arrival by a long, loud call, repeated from the dry ...
— Birds Illustrated by Color Photograph [March 1897] - A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life • Various


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