The earliest known use of "spilth" is in Shakespeare's. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
This suffix comes to us from Old English and is used to indicate an act or process (as in "spilth" or the more familiar "growth") or a state or condition (as in "breadth" or "length"). From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
"spilth" of St Monday formed the entire demand of Tuesday. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from John Henderson to his mother, Mary Ferrand Henderson, May 15, 1864 (In Which He Discusses His Brother, Leonard, Who was Killed a Few Weeks Later at Cold Harbor)] Reference
"spilth," combines the verb "spill" with a suffix ( "- age," this time borrowed from Old French) that can indicate an act or process. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
And woes, by heaven ordained, must fall — Unsoothed by tears or spilth of wine. From Wordnik.com. [Agamemnon] Reference
She gives us words such as “spilth,” “spelth,” “splints,” “spiles,” and “spatch.”. From Wordnik.com. [Djuna Barnes] Reference
Golf leads to muscular ideals among women, and muscular ideals lead to romance, to the "spilth of blood" and "the horrid din of the swashbuckler swashing on his buckler.". From Wordnik.com. [The Novel's Deadliest Friend] Reference
Down her body there was a spilth of seeds and pulp. From Wordnik.com. [Widdershins] Reference
Pah! the house fumes with stench and spilth of blood. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Atreus] Reference
Bright spiritual beings like Pippa shed their souls innocently and unwittingly about like a spilth of. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Browning]
His foot slipped in the spilth of wine, and the huge body went down like an oak, his head striking one leg of the table. From Wordnik.com. [Chivalry] Reference
His foot slipped in the spilth of wine, and the huge body went down like an oak, the head of it striking one leg of the table. From Wordnik.com. [Chivalry] Reference
"A spilth of water fell from the bird as it climbed through the hot air to clear the lakeside trees, and a drop of lake water clung for a moment to the leaf of an ilex.". From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
In some a mere wasteful spilth seems the sole design of the artist, as in the Fontana Paolina on the Janiculum, where the cold wash of its deluge seemed to add a piercing chill to our windy afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Holidays, and Others] Reference
Bright spiritual beings like Pippa shed their souls innocently and unwittingly about like a spilth of "X-rays," and the irradiation penetrates instantly the dense opposing integuments of passion, cupidity, and worldliness. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Browning] Reference
I happen, however, to like flowers for their scent more than for their colour: and the whole of this moor was a spilth of scent from bushes of the purple Daphne -- its full flowering time over, but its scent lingering ghostlily on the salt wind from the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Foe-Farrell] Reference
Graubünden homespun; casks, dropping their spilth of red wine on the snow; greetings, embracings; patois of Bergamo, Romansch, and German roaring around the low-browed vaults and tingling ice pillars; pourings forth of libations of the new strong Valtelline on breasts and beards; -- the whole made up a scene of stalwart jollity and manful labour such as I have nowhere else in such wild circumstances witnessed. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series] Reference
834: With drunken spilth of Wine; when euery roome. From Wordnik.com. [Timon of Athens (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference
And spilth and tasteless lees. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
Excites desire with spilth of nard. From Wordnik.com. [The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems] Reference
And richer spilth the pavement stain. From Wordnik.com. [The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace] Reference
Unsoothed by tears or spilth of wine. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Atreus] Reference
And richer spilth the pavement stain. From Wordnik.com. [The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace] Reference
Six sprouting years of beard, the spilth. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
Beneath this sacramental spilth of snow. From Wordnik.com. [Nox Nivosa] Reference
Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth. From Wordnik.com. [Dramatic Romances] Reference
Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning] Reference
With drunken spilth of wine, when every room. From Wordnik.com. [Timon of Athens] Reference
Red were his lips as red wine-spilth that dyes. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) His Life and Confessions] Reference
Like a spilth of spume on the crest of the bore. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Lost Haven A Book of the Sea] Reference
With drunken spilth of wine, when every room152. From Wordnik.com. [Act II. Scene II. Timon of Athens] Reference
1607-08): "When our vaults have wept/With drunken spilth of wine ….". From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
With drunken spilth of wine. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace] Reference
Choicest cates, and the flagon's best spilth. ". From Wordnik.com. [Julian Home] Reference
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