Definitions from The Online Plain Text English Dictionary:
Spit
(imp. & p. p.) of Spit
(n.) A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting.
(n.) A small point of land running into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand.
(n.) The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.
(n.) The secretion formed by the glands of the mouth; spitle; saliva; sputum.
(n.) To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth.
(n.) To eject; to throw out; to belch.
(n.) To spade; to dig.
(n.) To thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal.
(v. i.) To attend to a spit; to use a spit.
(v. i.) To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles.
(v. i.) To throw out saliva from the mouth.
OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. (See Project Gutenburg.)
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