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other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.

The quality or state of being smudged, soiled, or blurred. C. A. Young.

Soiled with smut; smutted.

(Bot.), a leguminous plant (Phaseolus Caracalla) having the keel of the carolla spirally coiled like a snail shell. -- Snail shell (Zoöl.), the shell of snail. -- Snail trefoil. (Bot.) See Snail clover, above.

An ammonite; -- so called from its form, which resembles that of a coiled snake.

Soiled with snuff.

Boiled; seethed; also, soaked; heavy with moisture; saturated; as, sodden beef; sodden bread; sodden fields.

to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust. Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained. Milton.

Dirty; soiled. [Obs.] Fuller.

Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot. "Fire of sooty coal." Milton.

A hat made of painted canvas, oiled cloth, or the like, with a flap at the back, -- worn in stormy weather.

A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soja beans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.

One of certain minute coiled threads in the coating of some seeds. When moistened these threads protrude in great numbers. Gray.

An eel split and broiled.

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

. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of his kingdom, and deprived of eues. Pope.

Capable of being spoiled.

if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be spoiled.

er Platinum. -- Pyrotechnical sponge, a substance made of mushrooms or fungi, which are boiled in water, dried, and beaten, then put in a strong lye prepared with saltpeter, and again dried in an oven. This makes the black match, or tinder, brought from Germany. -- Sheep's-wool sponge, a fine and durable commercial s…

To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table. Boiled the flesh, and spread the board. Tennyson. To sprad cloth, to unfurl sail. [Obs.] Evelyn.