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_Douglas._
SPELING, _s._ Instruction.
_Sir Gawan._
A. S. _spell-ian_, docere.
_To_ SPELK, _v. a._ To support by splinters, S.
_Rutherford._
A. S. _spelc-ean_, Su. G. _spiaelk-a_, id.
_To_ SPELL, _v. a._ To tell, to narrate.
_Houlate._
A. S. _spell-ian_, Isl. _spial-a_, narrare.
_To_ ~Spell~, _v. n._ To discourse.
_Pop. Ball._
~Spell~, ~Spele~, _s._ Narrative.
_Wyntown._
Alem. _spel_, a discourse, a history.
_To_ SPEND, _v. n._
1. To spring, Loth.
2. To gallop, Loth.
V. ~Spyn~.
SPENS, SPENCE, _s._
1. The place where provisions are kept, S.
Fr. _despence_, id.
_Henrysone._
2. The interior apartment of a country-house, S.
3. The place where the family sit at meat, S. B.
_Pop. Ball._
~Spens~, ~Spensar~, ~Spensere~, _s._ The clerk of a kitchen.
_Wyntown._
_To_ SPERE, SPEIR, SPYRE, _v. n._
1. To search out.
_Barbour._
A. S. _spyr-ian_, investigare.
2. To investigate.
_Barbour._
3. To ask, to inquire, S.
_Douglas._
A. S. _spyr-ian_, Isl. _spyr-ia_, to inquire. In this general sense, it is used in various forms.
_To speir at_, to interrogate, S.
Isl. _spyr-ia ad_, id.
_To speir after_, to inquire for, S.
A. S. _spyrian aefter_.
_To spier for_, especially as denoting an inquiry concerning one's welfare, S.
_To speir about_, id. S.
~Speryng~, _s._ Information in consequence of inquiry.
_Barbour._
Teut. _speuringhe_, indagatio.
