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† spettle Obs.
Forms: 5 spetil, 6 spettill, spettyl, 7 -ell; 6–7 spetle, spettle.
[repr. OE. spǽtl, var. of spátl spattle n.1, or modification of spattle after spete v. and spet v. Cf. spittle n.]
Spittle, spit. (Freq. c 1575–1650.)
1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 240 Sutil and thyn spetil that descendyth or comyth doune fro the Palete of the mouth. c1520M. Nisbet John ix. 6 He spittit into the erd, and made clay of the spettil [1535 Coverd. spetle]. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. ii. vi. (1886) 22 She will put spettle privilie upon hir cheeks, and seeme to weepe. 1608Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. iv. Decay 617 Hee spets at Heav'n, And his owne spettle in his face is driven. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. (1653) A iij b, Thy Cheeks on each side bored through appeare; Thorough whose holes (the slavering spetles vent) The Teeth [etc.]. 1693Dryden Persius i. 210 No Blood, from bitten Nails, those Poems drew; But churn'd, like Spettle, from the Lips they flew.
transf.1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 294 The swette of heauen or as it were a certeyne spettyl of the starres. |