a bit of wood split off; a splinter.-a slender piece of anything.-a peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.-a metallic rod or pin.-a small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.-one of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.-a little sum of money.-to cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.-to destroy; to kill; to put an end to.-to mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.-to suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; -- applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour.-to cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood.-to relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.-to be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.-to be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.