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Of or pertaining to spelling. Spelling bee, a spelling match. [U.S.] -- Spelling book, a book with exercises for teaching children to spell; a speller. -- Spelling match, a contest of skill in spelling words, between two or more persons.

A wrong spelling.

Although. [Reformed spelling] Alt"horn`, n. Etym: [Alt + horn.] (Mus.)

See Embassy, the usual spelling. Helps.

A letter, or a combination of letters, employed in spelling a word, but in the pronunciation having no sound. -- Aph*thon"gal, a.

Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense).

A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling. [North of Eng. & Scot.] Fairfax.

To improve or relieve by dispelling gloom or removing that which obscures and darkens; to shed light upon; to make cheerful; as, to brighten one's prospects. An ecstasy, which mothers only feel, Plays round my heart and brightens all my sorrow. Philips.

Incorrect or bad writing or spelling. Walpole.

An old spelling of Camphor.

A var. spelling of Coin, Quoin, a corner, wedge; -- chiefly used in the phrase coign of vantage, a position advantageous for action or observation.

Doubt-dispelling; decisive. [R.] A kind of peremptory and discussive voice. Hopkins.

See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.

To put upon the back or outside of anything; -- the older spelling of endorse. [Obs.] Spenser.

An older spelling of Endow. Tillotson.

the chief European languages, and sounds peculiar to any one language are eliminated. The spelling is phonetic, and the accent (stress) is always on the penult. -- Es`pe*ran"tist (#), n.

A system of phonetic spelling based upon the present values of English letters, but invariably using one symbol to represent one sound only. Ingglish Glosik konvaiA. J. Ellis.

speech considered with regard to the rules of a grammar. The original bad grammar and bad spelling. Macaulay.

Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling).

ion of have not, or has not, used in illiterate speech. In the United States the commoner spelling is hain't.