Dictionary entry

Spill (4)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Spill, v. i. 1. To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.

That thou wilt suffer innocents to spill. Chaucer.

2. To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted. “He was so topful of himself, that he let it spill on all the company.” I. Watts.