Found 2 items, similar to spelt.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: spelt spell v 1: recite the letters of or give the spelling of; “How do you spell this word?” 2: indicate or signify; “I'm afraid this spells trouble!” [syn: import] 3: write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word); “He spelled the word wrong in this letter” [syn: write] 4: place under a spell [ant: unspell] [also: spelt] spelt n : hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed [syn: Triticum spelta, Triticum aestivum spelta] spell n 1: a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation [syn: enchantment, trance] 2: a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else); “it's my go”; “a spell of work” [syn: go, tour, turn] 3: a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition; “he was here for a little while”; “I need to rest for a piece”; “a spell of good weather”; “a patch of bad weather” [syn: while, piece, patch] 4: a verbal formula believed to have magical force; “he whispered a spell as he moved his hands”; “inscribed around its base is a charm in Balinese” [syn: magic spell, charm] [also: spelt] spelt See spell
English → English (gcide) Definition: Spelt 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\, imp. & p. p. of Spell. Spelled. [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\, n. [See Spalt.] (Metal.) Spelter. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] Spelt \Spelt\, v. t. & i. [See Spell a splinter.] To split; to break; to spalt. [Obs.] --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]