Definition of spit

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Spit (n.) A small point of land running into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand..

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Spitter :: Spitter (n.) One who puts meat on a spit.
Spit :: Spit (v. i.) To attend to a spit; to use a spit.
Spit :: Spit (n.) To thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal..
Spit-venom :: Spittoon (n.) A spitbox; a cuspidor.
Ill-natured :: Ill-natured (a.) Dictated by, or indicating, ill nature; spiteful..
Cespitous :: Cespitous (a.) Pertaining to, consisting, of resembling, turf; turfy..
Still :: Still (a.) Notwithstanding what has been said or done; in spite of what has occured; nevertheless; -- sometimes used as a conjunction. See Synonym of But.
Headlong :: Headlong (a. & adv.) Hastily; without delay or respite.
Backbite :: Backbite (v. i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
Spitting :: Spitted (imp. & p. p.) of Spi.
Consumption :: Consumption (n.) A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption..
Bethlehem :: Bethlehem (n.) A hospital for lunatics; -- corrupted into bedlam.
Respite :: Respite (n.) To keep back from execution; to reprieve.
Inveteracy :: Inveteracy (n.) Malignity; spitefulness; virulency.
Excreation :: Excreation (n.) Act of spitting out.
Bridewell :: Bridewell (n.) A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse..
Dotation :: Dotation (n.) Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation..
Spet :: Spet (v. t.) To spit; to throw out.
Maugre :: Maugre (prep.) In spite of; in opposition to; notwithstanding.
Hospital :: Hospital (a.) Hospitable.
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