Spell
A spelk, or splinter.
To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.
The relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spell at the pumps; a spell at the masthead.
The time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days, or weeks.
One of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells.
A gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell.
A story; a tale.
A stanza, verse, or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm.
To tell; to relate; to teach.
To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
To constitute; to measure.
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.
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 form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing.
To study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study.
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Spell Quotations
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark Twain
Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.
Charles Dickens
We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
Will Rogers
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
John Adams
I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.
Elizabeth Taylor
It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
Andrew Jackson
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Michelangelo
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.
James Allen
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
Washington Irving
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
Marshall McLuhan
I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
Barbra Streisand
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
Eric Hoffer
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Simone de Beauvoir
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.
Dan Quayle
You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.
Humphrey Bogart
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
George Sand
Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.
Edwin Louis Cole
A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
Billy Sunday
I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
Quentin Tarantino
Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.
Kate Hudson
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.
Robert Musil
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Burt Bacharach
Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.
James Weldon Johnson
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
Jacob Bronowski
My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.
Roberto Benigni
No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
Ornette Coleman
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
Andrew Johnson
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Spell Translations
spell in Danish is stave
spell in Dutch is spellen
spell in German is buchstabieren, richtig schreiben
spell in Italian is compitare
spell in Spanish is deletrear
spell in Swedish is stava
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