spilth
English
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Noun
spilth (plural spilths)
- (archaic) A spillage; spilled material.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Instans Tyrannus”, in Men and Women, lines 19–22:
- I tempted his blood and his flesh, / Hid in roses my mesh, / Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth— / Still he kept to his filth!
- 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
- Like a vast spider suspended by a metal chord, a candelabrum presided over the room nine feet above the floor-boards. From its sweeping arms of iron, long stalactites of wax lowered their pale spilths drip by drip, drip by drip.
- 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
- Baked fish lay cooling on the table, and there was a great spilth of wine on the floor.