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The act of dissuading; exhortation against a thing; dehortation. In spite of all the dissuasions of his friends. Boyle.

Sullen; morose. [Obs. or R.] The sulky spite of a temper naturally dogged. Sir W. Scott.

ty of mind. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray. Pope. The sins of emptiness, gossip, and spite. Tennyson.

Malignant; mischievous; spiteful. [Obs.] Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch. Shak.

Malice; ill will; spite. [Obs.] If he evade us there, Enforce him with his envy to the people. Shak.

To fit; to suit; to agree. They shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together. Milton. Well, Sir, how fadges the new design Wycherley.

A shrewd or artful person. [Slang] Fielding. Will is an old file spite of his smooth face. Thackeray. Bastard file, Cross file, etc. See under Bastard, Cross, etc. -- Cross-cut file, a file having two sets of teeth crossing obliquely. -- File blank, a steel blank shaped and ground ready for cutting to form a file. -…

circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish. And flourishes his blade in spite of me. Shak.

that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc. The writer will do what she please for all me. Spectator. God's desertion shall…

To grind or strike the teeth together. There they him laid, Gnashing for anguish, and despite, and shame. Milton.

tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor. Bubbles o'er like a city with gossip, scandal, and spite. Tennyson.

Hastily; without delay or respite.

-- applied to warm-bodied animals, because they maintain a nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the cold-blooded (poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature follows the variations in temperature of the surrounding medium.

hawk fly, robber fly. -- To stir up a hornet's nest, to provoke the attack of a swarm of spiteful enemies or spirited critics. [Colloq.]

In whetever manner, way, or degree. However yet they me despise and spite. Spenser. Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault. Shak.

Dictated by, or indicating, ill nature; spiteful. "The ill-natured task refuse." Addison.

To apply with energy. Let him intend his mind, without respite, without rest, in one direction. Emerson.

Malignity; spitefulness; virulency. The rancor of pamphlets, the inveteracy of epigrams, an the mortification of lampoons. Guardian.

Malignant; virulent; spiteful. H. Brooke.

loss or injury; to risk; to jeopard. That he should jeopardize his willful head Only for spite at me. H. Taylor.