King James Bible Dictionary

SPIT, noun [G.]

1. An iron prong or bar pointed, on which meat is roasted.

2. Such depth of earth as is pierced by the spade at once. [D. spit a spade.]

3. A small point of land running into the sea, or a long narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as a spit of sand.

SPIT, verb transitive [from the noun.]

1. To thrust a spit through; to put upon a spit; as, to spit a loin of veal.

2. To thrust through; to pierce.

SPIT, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive spit Spat is obsolete. [G. The sense is to throw or drive.]

1. To eject from the mouth; to thrust out, as saliva or other matter from the mouth.

2. To eject or throw out with violence.

SPIT, verb intransitive To throw out saliva from the mouth. It is a dirty trick to spit on the floor or carpet.

SPIT, noun What is ejected from the mouth; saliva.

SPITAL, SPITTEL, noun Corrupted from hospital. Rob not the spital or charitable foundation. [Vulgar and not in use.]

SPITCHCOCK, verb transitive To split an eel lengthwise and broil it.

SPITCHCOCK, noun An eel split and broiled.

SPITE, noun [Latin] Hatred; rancor; malice; malignity; malevolence.

SPITE, however, is not always synonymous with these words. It often denotes a less deliberate and fixed hatred than malice and malignity, and is often a sudden fit of ill will excited by temporary vexation. It is the effect of extreme irritation, and is accompanied with a desire of revenge, or at least a desire to vex the object of ill will.

Be gone, ye critics, and restrain your spite; Codrus writes on, and will for ever write.

In spite of, in opposition to all efforts; in defiance or contempt of. Sometimes spite of is used without in, but not elegantly. It is often used without expressing any malignity of meaning.

Whom God made use of to speak a word in season, and saved me in spite of the world, the devil and myself.

In spite of all applications, the patient grew worse every day.

To owe one a spite to entertain a temporary hatred for something.

SPITE, verb transitive

1. To be angry or vexed at.

2. To mischief; to vex; to treat maliciously; to thwart.

3. To fill with spite or vexation; to offend; to vex.

Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavored to abolish not only their learning but their language. [Not used.]

SPITED, participle passive Hated; vexed.

SPITEFUL, adjective Filled with spite; having a desire to vex, annoy or injure; malignant; malicious.

--A wayward son, spiteful and wrathful.

SPITEFULLY, adverb With a desire to vex, annoy or injure; malignantly; maliciously.

SPITEFULNESS, noun The desire to vex, annoy or mischief, proceeding from irritation; malice; malignity.

It looks more like spitefulness and ill nature, than a diligent search after truth.

SPITTED, participle passive [from spit.]

1. Put upon a spit.

2. Shot out into length.

SPITAL, SPITTEL noun Corrupted from hospital. Rob not the spital, or charitable foundation. [Vulgar and not in use.]

SPITTER, noun

1. One that puts meat on a spit.

2. One who ejects saliva from his mouth.

3. A young deer whose horns begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket or pricket.

In the face, as an indignity
Numbers 12:14; Deuteronomy 25:9; Job 30:10; Matthew 26:67; Matthew 27:30

Jesus used spittle in healing
Mark 7:33; Mark 8:23

SPITTING, participle present tense

1. Putting on a spit.

2. Ejecting saliva from the mouth.

SPITTLE, noun [from spit.]

1. Saliva; the thick moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands and ejected from the mouth.

2. A small sort of spade. [spaddle.]

SPITTLE. [See Spital.]

SPITTLE, verb transitive To dig or stir with a small spade. [Local.]

SPITVENOM, noun [spit and venom.] Poison ejected from the mouth.