"Spitting upon all antiquity." South.
Spital
(Spit"al) n. [Abbreviated from hospital.] [Written also spittle.] A hospital. [Obs.] Shak.
Spitalhouse
(Spit"al*house`) n. A hospital. [Obs.]
Spitball
(Spit"ball`) n. Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile.
Spitbox
(Spit"box`) n. A vessel to receive spittle.
Spitchcock
(Spitch"cock`) v. t. [1st spit + cock.] (Cookery) To split (as an eel) lengthwise, and broil
it, or fry it in hot fat.
Spitchcock
(Spitch"cock`), n. (Cookery) An eel split and broiled.
Spitchcocked
(Spitch"cocked`) a. (Cookery) Broiled or fried after being split lengthwise; — said of eels.
Spit curl
(Spit" curl`) A little lock of hair, plastered in a spiral form on the temple or forehead with spittle,
or other adhesive substance. [Colloq.]
Spite
(Spite) n. [Abbreviated fr. despite.]
1. Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty
malice; grudge; rancor; despite. Pope.
This is the deadly spite that angers.
Shak. 2. Vexation; chargrin; mortification. [R.] Shak.
In spite of, or Spite of, in opposition to all efforts of; in defiance or contempt of; notwithstanding. "Continuing,
spite of pain, to use a knee after it had been slightly ibnjured." H. Spenser. "And saved me
in spite of the world, the devil, and myself." South. "In spite of all applications, the patient grew worse
every day." Arbuthnot. See Syn. under Notwithstanding. — To owe one a spite, to entertain a mean
hatred for him.
Syn. — Pique, rancor; malevolence; grudge. — Spite, Malice. Malice has more reference to the disposition,
and spite to the manifestation of it in words and actions. It is, therefore, meaner than malice, thought
not always more criminal. " Malice . . . is more frequently employed to express the dispositions of
inferior minds to execute every purpose of mischief within the more limited circle of their abilities." Cogan.
"Consider eke, that spite availeth naught." Wyatt. See Pique.
Spite
(Spite), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spited; p. pr. & vb. n. Spiting.]
1. To be angry at; to hate. [Obs.]
The Danes, then . . . pagans, spited places of religion.
Fuller. 2. To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
3. To fill with spite; to offend; to vex. [R.]
Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavored to abolish not only their learning, but their language.
Sir. W.
Temple.
