spilth

(spĭlth)

n. Archaic

1. The act of spilling.

2. An amount spilled.

[From spill.]

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spilth

(spɪlθ)

a thing that has been spilt

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spilth

(spɪlθ)

n.

1. spillage (def. 1).

2. something that is spilled.

3. refuse; trash.

[1600–10]

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And it gleamed the color of old tusks; it held the spilth of continental seedbed, gastropod and brachiopod and seaworm and sea lily, and vertebrae of stone; and here one night of my late adolescence it made a couch for two recumbent humans, marble-limbed and languid as two figures on the lid of a sarcophagus.

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