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spelt
[ noun ]
hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed
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Spell \Spell\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spelled}or {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.]

Might I that legend find,
By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes. --T. Warton.

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.

He was much spelled with Eleanor Talbot. --Sir G.
Buck.

3. To constitute; to measure. [Obs.]

The Saxon heptarchy, when seven kings put together
did spell but one in effect. --Fuller.

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.

The word ``satire'' ought to be spelled with i, and
not with y. --Dryden.

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.

To spell out a God in the works of creation.
--South.

To sit spelling and observing divine justice upon
every accident. --Milton.


Spelt \Spelt\,
imp. & p. p. of {Spell}. Spelled.


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}.


Spelt \Spelt\, n. [See {Spalt}.] (Metal.)
Spelter. [Colloq.]


Spelt \Spelt\, v. t. & i. [See {Spell} a splinter.]
To split; to break; to spalt. [Obs.] --Mortimer.