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A pitched ball in throwing which the pitcher grips the ball between two, or three, fingers on one side (which is made slippery, as by saliva) and the thumb on the other side, and delivers it so that it slips off the fingers with the least possible friction. When pitched directly overhand a spit ball darts downward, whe…

A little lock of hair, plastered in a spiral form on the temple or forehead with spittle, or other adhesive substance. [Colloq.]

Poison spittle; poison ejected from the mouth. [R.] Hooker.

A hospital. [Obs.] Shak.

A hospital. [Obs.]

Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile.

A vessel to receive spittle.

To split (as an eel) lengthwise, and broil it, or fry it in hot fat.

Broiled or fried after being split lengthwise; -- said of eels.

nied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite. Pope. This is the deadly spite that angers. Shak.

Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious; as, a spiteful person or act. Shak. -- Spite"ful*ly, adv. Spite"ful*ness, n.

A violent, irascible, or passionate person. [Colloq.] Grose.

A spadeful. [Prov. Eng.]

Having spite; spiteful. [Obs.]

Spitefully. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Spitchcocked.

Put upon a spit; pierced as if by a spit.

One who puts meat on a spit.

See Spital. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Like spittle; slimy. [Obs.]