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unning into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand. Cook.

slips off the fingers with the least possible friction. When pitched directly overhand a spit ball darts downward, when pitched with the arm extended sidewise it darts down and out. [Cant] -- Spit baller.

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.

anied 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.