Etymology
Origin of spilth
Example Sentences
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His foot slipped in the spilth of wine, and the huge body went down like an oak, the head of it striking one leg of the table.
From Chivalry by Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green
There it hums and caracoles, through the bottles and glasses; reckless what dangerous breakage and spilth it may occasion.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Carlyle, Thomas
Hard by there lurched One gorgeous galleon on the ravening shoals, Feeding the white maw of the famished waves With gold and purple webs from kingly looms And spilth of world-wide empires.
From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred
Bright spiritual beings like Pippa shed their souls innocently and unwittingly about like a spilth of "X-rays," and the irradiation penetrates instantly the dense opposing integuments of passion, cupidity, and worldliness.
From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)
Spilth, spilth, n. spilling, anything spilt or poured out lavishly, excess of supply.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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