spill - What does it mean?

Verb

To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to pour.

I spilled some sticky juice on the kitchen floor.

To spread out or fall out, as above.

Some sticky juice spilled onto the kitchen floor.

* Isaac Watts

He was so topful of himself, that he let it spill on all the company.

To drop something that was intended to be caught.

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|year=2011 |date=October 29 |author=Neil Johnston |title=Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn |work=BBC Sport citation |page= |passage=That should have been that, but Hart caught a dose of the Hennessey wobbles and spilled Adlene Guedioura's long-range shot.}}

To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.

* Puttenham

They [the colours] disfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship.

* Fuller

Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in recreations.

(obsolete) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.

* Chaucer

That thou wilt suffer innocents to spill .

To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.

* Dryden

to revenge his blood so justly spilt

To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.

(Spenser)

(nautical) 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.

Verb

(head)