spelt
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Noun (1)
- hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feedSynonyms: Triticum speltaTriticum aestivum spelta
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Spell \Spell\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spelledor Spelt; p. pr. & vb. n. Spelling.] [OE. spellen, spellien, tell, relate, AS. spellian, fr. spell a saying, tale; akin to MHG. spellen to relate, Goth. spill?n.e Spell a tale. In sense 4 and those following, OE. spellen, perhaps originally a different word, and from or influenced by spell a splinter, from the use of a piece of wood to point to the letters in schools: cf. D. spellen to spell. Cf. Spell splinter.]
1.To tell; to relate; to teach. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Might I that legend find, By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes.— T. Warton.[1913 Webster]
2.To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm. "Spelled with words of power." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
He was much spelled with Eleanor Talbot.— Sir G. Buck.[1913 Webster]
3.To constitute; to measure. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
The Saxon heptarchy, when seven kings put together did spell but one in effect.— Fuller.[1913 Webster]
4.To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, esp. the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography. [1913 Webster]
The word "satire" ought to be spelled with i, and not with y.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]
5.To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; -- usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible. [1913 Webster]
To spell out a God in the works of creation.— South.[1913 Webster]
To sit spelling and observing divine justice upon every accident.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
Spelt \Spelt\, n. [AS. spelt, fr. L. spelta.] (Bot.) A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also German wheat. [1913 Webster]
Spelt \Spelt\, v. t. & i. [See Spell a splinter.] To split; to break; to spalt. [Obs.] --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]