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Skillful; clever; crafty. [Obs.] Cudworth.

e; metrical composition; versification. A half-effected inscription. Written with little skill of songcraft. Longfellow.

One who sings; one skilled in singing; -- not often applied to human beings.

The murder of one's sister; also, one who murders or kills one's own sister. Johnson.

The act of sparing; moderation; restraint. [Obs.] Killing for sacrifice, without any spare. Holland.

To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish.

One who investigates by means of a spectroscope; one skilled in the use of the spectroscope.

th exercises for teaching children to spell; a speller. -- Spelling match, a contest of skill in spelling words, between two or more persons.

One skilled in sphenography; a sphenographist.

To destroy; to kill; to put an end to. [Obs.] And gave him to the queen, all at her will To choose whether she would him save or spill. Chaucer. Greater glory think [it] to save than spill. Spenser.

One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.

The practice of sportsmen; skill in field sports.

To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.

e who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience. "You will find most of the old stagers still stationary there." Sir W. Scott.

To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game. As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is cruelly like to stalking a deer. Sir W. Scott.

resembling a horse, behind which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill.

Stiff; precise; rigid. [R.] Killingbeck.

To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.

A statesman; a politician; one skilled in government. [Obs.] Statists indeed, And lovers of their country. Milton.

One skilled in steganography; a cryptographer.