Usually means: Words with magical power when cast.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. spell: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. spell, spell, spell, spell: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spell, spell, spell: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spell: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spell: Vocabulary.com
  6. Spell, spell: Wordnik
  7. spell: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Spell, spell: Wiktionary
  9. spell: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. spell: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. spell: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. spell: Dictionary.com
  13. spell (n.), spell (v.1), spell (v.2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. spell: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Spell (EP), Spell (Unix), Spell (album), Spell (paranormal), Spell (ritual), Spell, The Spell (Alphabeat album), The Spell (Cellar Darling album), The Spell (Ivan Doroschuk album), The Spell (novel), The Spell (song), The Spell: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Spell: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. spell: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. spell: Rhymezone
  19. spell: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. spell: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SPELL: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. spell: Free Dictionary
  23. spell: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. spell: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. spell: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spell: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spell: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. spell: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. spell: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. spell, spell, spell: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. SPELL: Acronym Finder
  3. Spell: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  4. spell: The Skeptic's Dictionary
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. spell: Idioms
  7. spell: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spell, spell, spell: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. spell: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
noun:  A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
noun:  (obsolete) Speech, discourse.
verb:  To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.
verb:  (transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word).
verb:  (transitive, figuratively, with “out”) To clarify; to explain in detail.
verb:  (transitive) To indicate that (some event) will occur; typically followed by a single-word noun.
verb:  To constitute; to measure.
verb:  (obsolete) To speak, to declaim.
verb:  (obsolete) To tell; to relate; to teach.
verb:  (transitive) To work in place of (someone).
verb:  (transitive) To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
verb:  (intransitive, colloquial) To rest from work for a time.
noun:  A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
noun:  (informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).
noun:  (colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.
noun:  A period of rest; time off.
noun:  (colloquial, US) A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
noun:  (cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
noun:  (Northern England) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
noun:  The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
noun:  A surname.

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