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Spit [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. An iron prong or bar pointed, on which meat is roasted.

2. Such depth of earth as is pierced by the spade at once. [D. spit a spade.]

3. 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.

4. What is ejected from the mouth; saliva.

Spit [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To throw out saliva from the mouth. It is a dirty trick to spit on the floor or carpet.

Spit [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To thrust a spit through; to put upon a spit; as, to spit a loin of veal.

2. To thrust through; to pierce.

3. preterit tense and participle passive spit Spat is obsolete. [G. The sense is to throw or drive.]

4. To eject from the mouth; to thrust out, as saliva or other matter from the mouth.

5. To eject or throw out with violence.

Spit [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Spit [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting.

2. 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.

3. The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.

4. To thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal.

5. To spade; to dig.

6. To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth.

7. To eject; to throw out; to belch.

8. The secretion formed by the glands of the mouth; spitle; saliva; sputum.

Spit [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To attend to a spit; to use a spit.

2. To throw out saliva from the mouth.

3. To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles.

Spit curl Webster's Dictionary 1913

A little lock of hair, plastered in a spiral form on the temple or forehead with spittle, or other adhesive substance.

Spit-venom [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Poison spittle; poison ejected from the mouth.

Spital [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Corrupted from hospital. Rob not the spital or charitable foundation. [Vulgar and not in use.]

Spital [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A hospital.

Spitalhouse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A hospital.

Spitball [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile.

Spitbox [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A vessel to receive spittle.

Spitchcock [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An eel split and broiled.

Spitchcock [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To split an eel lengthwise and broil it.

Spitchcock [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An eel split and broiled.

Spitchcock [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To split (as an eel) lengthwise, and broil it, or fry it in hot fat.

Spitchcocked [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Broiled or fried after being split lengthwise; -- said of eels.

Spite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Hatred; rancor; malice; malignity; malevolence.

2. SPITE , however, is not always synonymous with these words. It often denotes a less deliberate and fixed hatred than malice and malignity, and is often a sudden fit of ill will excited by temporary vexation. It is the effect of extreme irritation, and is accompanied with a desire of revenge, or at least a desire to vex the object of ill will.

3. Be gone, ye critics, and restrain your spite; Codrus writes on, and will for ever write.

4. In spite of, in opposition to all efforts; in defiance or contempt of. Sometimes spite of is used without in, but not elegantly. It is often used without expressing any malignity of meaning.

5. Whom God made use of to speak a word in season, and saved me in spite of the world, the devil and myself.

6. In spite of all applications, the patient grew worse every day.

7. To owe one a spite to entertain a temporary hatred for something.

Spite [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To be angry or vexed at.

2. To mischief; to vex; to treat maliciously; to thwart.

3. To fill with spite or vexation; to offend; to vex.

4. Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavored to abolish not only their learning but their language. [Not used.]

Spite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.

2. Vexation; chargrin; mortification.

Spite [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To be angry at; to hate.

2. To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.

3. To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.

Spited [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Hated; vexed.

Spited [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Spiteful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Filled with spite; having a desire to vex, annoy or injure; malignant; malicious.

2. --A wayward son, spiteful and wrathful.

Spiteful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious; as, a spiteful person or act.

Spitefully [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

With a desire to vex, annoy or injure; malignantly; maliciously.

Spitefulness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The desire to vex, annoy or mischief, proceeding from irritation; malice; malignity.

2. It looks more like spitefulness and ill nature, than a diligent search after truth.

Spitfire [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A violent, irascible, or passionate person.

Spitful [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A spadeful.

Spitfuls [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Spiting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Spitous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having spite; spiteful.

Spitously [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Spitefully.

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Leviticus 15:8

And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

If the man with the discharge spits on one who is clean, that person must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 26:23

And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;

And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,

Leviticus 26:27

And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;

But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,

Leviticus 26:44

And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.

Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.

Numbers 12:14

And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.

But the LORD answered Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in.”

Deuteronomy 1:32

Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,

But in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,

Deuteronomy 25:9

Then shall his brother’s wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother’s house.

his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.”

1 Samuel 21:13

And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.

So he changed his behavior before them and feigned madness in their hands; he scratched on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down his beard.

Ezra 10:2

And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.

Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the people of the land, yet in spite of this, there is hope for Israel.

Job 7:19

How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?

Job 17:6

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

Job 30:10

They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

Psalms 10:14

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

Psalms 56:7

Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.

In spite of such sin, will they escape? In Your anger, O God, cast down the nations.

Psalms 78:32

For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.

Isaiah 47:9

But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.

Isaiah 50:6

I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.

Jeremiah 2:34

Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.

Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things

Jeremiah 3:10

And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.

Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 7:19

Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?