verb
To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally 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.
He was so topful of himself, that he let it spill on all the company.
To overflow out of a designated area.
The crowd spilled onto Maple Avenue.
To drop something that was intended to be caught.
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.
They [the colours] disfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship.
Spill not the morning (the quintessence of day) in recreations.
noun
A mess of something that has been dropped.
A fall or stumble.
The bruise is from a bad spill he had last week.
A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
“In a moment, he has torn the letter into long thin strips, and rolling them up into spills he thrusts them hurriedly in amongst the other spills in the vase on the mantle-piece.”
Kit froze with the pipe between his teeth, the relit spill pressed to the weed within it.
A slender piece of anything.
A slender piece of anything.