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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

... of the comedies of their life, now they had business on hand. The scraps of news brought by Quonab pieced out with those secured by Rolf, spelt clearly this: that Colonel Murray with about a thousand men was ...

— Rolf In The Woods • Ernest Thompson Seton

... "Cnichts", by which the Saxons seem to have designated a class of military attendants, sometimes free, sometimes bondsmen, but always ranking above an ordinary domestic, whether in the royal household or in those of the aldermen and thanes. But the term cnicht, now spelt knight, having been received into the English language as equivalent to the Norman word chevalier, I have avoided using it in its more ancient sense, to ...

— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott

... Creek meeting-house, a mile and a half from the Lincoln cabin. It was built of unhewn logs, and had holes for windows, in which greased paper served for glass. The roof was just high enough for a man to stand erect. Here the boy was taught reading, writing, and ciphering. They spelt in classes, and 'trapped' up and down. These juvenile contests were very exciting to the participants, and it is said by the survivors that Abe was even then the equal, if not the superior, of any scholar in his class. The next teacher was Andrew Crawford. Mrs. Gentry says he began teaching in ...

— The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln • Francis Fisher Browne

... transgression in a Chicago court of law, but a tremendous lawyer from St. Louis had loomed over Chicago and, having examined the documents in the case, was hopeful of getting the conviction quashed. He had discovered that in one and the same document "Isabel" had been spelt "Isobel" and—worse—Illinois had been deprived by a careless clerk of one of its "l's." He was sure that by proving these grave irregularities in American justice he could ...

— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett

... were spelt, hyphenated, or had apostrophes placed, inconsistently within the text. These have been silently corrected to match the form most frequently ...

— A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. • William Wilberforce

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