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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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"Spelt" Quotes from Famous Books



... took to hoarding and buying,—one of the wealthiest noblemen in England; but she was crazed by her marriage or the wild scenes leading to it; she never presented herself in society. She would sit on the top of Estlemont towers—as they formerly spelt it—all day and half the night in midwinter, often, looking for the mountains down in her native West country, covered with an old white flannel cloak, and on her head a tall hat of her Welsh women-folk; and she ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... or carrying on the game, as they called it, was this: suppose the word to be spelt was plum-pudding (and who can suppose a better?), the children were placed in a circle, and the first brought the letter p, the next l, the next u, the next m, and so on till the whole was spelt; and if any one brought a wrong letter, he was ...
— Bo-Peep Story Books • Anonymous
... Cockerell' pronounce it so to this day. The other branches of the family all pronounce it as 'Peppis,' and I am led to be satisfied that the latter pronunciation is correct by the two facts that in the earliest known writing it is spelt 'Pepis,' and that the French form ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... himself spelt it, Foulke Greville, in his later years Lord Brooke,[25] was of a noble house in Warwickshire connected with the Beauchamps and the Willoughbys. He was born in 1554, was educated at Shrewsbury with Philip Sidney, whose kinsman, lifelong friend, ...
— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury
... in a kind of Cheap-Jack van," she wrote,—"gayly-dressed people, tricked off in smart finery, and larking like a lot of Ramsgate tradesmen on the public road. One of the impudent creatures made a trumpet of his great ugly fist and spelt out the name of the hotel at which they were stopping, and then put his hand to his ear, as if to listen for the response. Expecting me to tell them anything about myself! But I flatter myself that I was a match for them. I just got out my umbrella and shot it up in their very ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 • Various


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