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spelt1       [spelt] Pronunciation Key,
–verb
a pt. and pp. of spell1.
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spelt2       [spelt] Pronunciation Key,
–noun
a wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta, native to southern Europe and western Asia, used chiefly for livestock feed.
[Origin: bef. 1000; ME, OE < LL spelta, prob. < Gmc; cf. OHG spelza (G Spelt)]
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spell1       [spel] Pronunciation Key verb, spelled or spelt, spell·ing.
–verb (used with object)
1.to name, write, or otherwise give the letters, in order, of (a word, syllable, etc.): Did I spell your name right?
2.(of letters) to form (a word, syllable, etc.): The letters spelled a rather rude word.
3.to read letter by letter or with difficulty (often fol. by out): She painfully spelled out the message.
4.to discern or find, as if by reading or study (often fol. by out).
5.to signify; amount to: This delay spells disaster for us.
–verb (used without object)
6.to name, write, or give the letters of words, syllables, etc.: He spells poorly.
7.to express words by letters, esp. correctly.
—Verb phrases
8.spell down, to outspell others in a spelling match.
9.spell out,
a.to explain something explicitly, so that the meaning is unmistakable: Must I spell it out for you?
b.to write out in full or enumerate the letters of which a word is composed: The title “Ph.D.” is seldom spelled out.
[Origin: 1250–1300; ME spellen < OF espeller < Gmc; cf. OE spellian to talk, announce (deriv. of spell spell2), OHG -spellōn, ON spjalla, Goth spillōn]

—Related forms
spell·a·ble, adjective

—Synonyms 5. foretell, portend, mean, promise.
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spell 1       (spěl)  Pronunciation Key 
v.   spelled or spelt (spělt), spell·ing, spells

v.   tr.
  1. To name or write in order the letters constituting (a word or part of a word).
  2. To constitute the letters of (a word): These letters spell animal.
  3. To add up to; signify: Their unwise investment could spell financial ruin.

v.   intr.
To form words by means of letters.

Phrasal Verb(s):
spell down
To defeat in a spelling bee.
spell out
  1. To make explicit and clear: asked him to spell out his objectives.
  2. To name or write in order the letters that constitute (a word or part of a word): spelled out my name.

[Middle English spellen, to read letter by letter, from Old French espeller, of Germanic origin.]

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spell 2       (spěl)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
    1. A word or formula believed to have magic power.
    2. A bewitched state; a trance.
  2. A compelling attraction; charm or fascination: the spell of the theater.

tr.v.   spelled, spell·ing, spells
To put (someone) under a spell; bewitch.


[Middle English, discourse, from Old English.]

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spell 3       (spěl)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A short, indefinite period of time.
  2. Informal A period of weather of a particular kind: a dry spell.
    1. One's turn at work.
    2. A period of work; a shift.
  4. Australian A period of rest.
  5. Informal A period of physical or mental disorder or distress: a dizzy spell.
  6. Informal A short distance.

v.   spelled, spell·ing, spells

v.   tr.
  1. To relieve (someone) from work temporarily by taking a turn.
  2. To allow to rest a while.

v.   intr.
  1. To take turns working.
  2. Australian To rest for a time from an activity.


[From Middle English spelen, to spare, from Old English spelian, to represent, substitute for.]

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spelt 1       (spělt)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe.


[Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin spelta, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch spelte, wheat.]

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spelt 2       (spělt)  Pronunciation Key 
v.   A past tense and a past participle of spell1.

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spelt 
O.E. spelt, perhaps an early borrowing from L.L. spelta "spelt" (c.400, noted as a foreign word), which is perhaps ult. from PIE base *spel- "to split, to break off" (probably in ref. to the splitting of its husks in threshing), which is related to the root of flint. The word had little currency in Eng., and its history is discontinuous. Widespread in Romanic languages (cf. It. spelta, Sp. espelta, O.Fr. spelte, Mod.Fr. épeautre). The word also is widespread in Gmc. (cf. O.H.G. spelta, Ger. Spelt), and a Gmc. language is perhaps the source of the L.L. word.

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spelt

noun
hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed 

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Spelt

Spelt\, imp. & p. p. of Spell. Spelled.

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Spelt

Spelt\, n. [AS. spelt, fr. L. spelta.] (Bot.) A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also German wheat.

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Spelt

Spelt\, n. [See Spalt.] (Metal.) Spelter. [Colloq.]

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Spelt

Spelt\, v. t. & i. [See Spell a splinter.] To split; to break; to spalt. [Obs.] --Mortimer.

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