1607. Shaks., Timon, II. ii. 169. Our Vaults haue wept With drunken spilth of Wine.
1812. W. Tennant, Anster Fair, II. xxxvi. Both chin and nose bedaubd with spilth of snuff.
1830. W. Taylor, Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry, I. 324. To avenge The spilth of brothers blood.
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.
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.
1892. Symonds, Life in Swiss Highl., iv. 116. A ruin of old granitic rocks around you, the spilth and waste of mountains.