[f. SPILL v. + -TH1 a.] That which is spilled; the action or fact of spilling.

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1607.  Shaks., Timon, II. ii. 169. Our Vaults haue wept With drunken spilth of Wine.

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1812.  W. Tennant, Anster Fair, II. xxxvi. Both chin and nose bedaub’d with spilth of snuff.

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1830.  W. Taylor, Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry, I. 324. To avenge … The spilth of brother’s blood.

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1865.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., V. vii. II. 117. Grumkow … sent it spinning … through the bottles and glasses; reckless what dangerous breakage and spilth it may occasion.

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  fig.  1852.  T. Aird, Mem. Moir, M.’s Poet. Wks. I. v. p. cxxxii. Such things are not made by the brain; they are the spilth of the human heart.

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1892.  Symonds, Life in Swiss Highl., iv. 116. A ruin of old granitic rocks around you, the spilth and waste of mountains.

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