spit

v. i. To attend to a spit; to use a spit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She's spitting in the kitchen. Old Play. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Spit (Spat, archaic); p. pr. & vb. n. Spitting. ] [ AS. spittan; akin to G. spützen, Dan. spytte, Sw. spotta, Icel. sp&unr_;ta, and prob. E. spew. The past tense spat is due to AS. sp&unr_;tte, from sp&unr_;tan to spit. Cf. Spat, n., Spew, Spawl, Spot, n. ] 1. To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth. “Thus spit I out my venom.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To eject; to throw out; to belch. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Spitted was sometimes used as the preterit and the past participle. “He . . . shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on.” Luke xviii. 32. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Spitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Spitting. ] [ From Spit, n.; cf. Speet. ] 1. To thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal. “Infants spitted upon pikes.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To spade; to dig. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. spite, AS. spitu; akin to D. spit, G. spiess, OHG. spiz, Dan. spid. Sw. spett, and to G. spitz pointed. √170. ] 1. A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. Cook. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The secretion formed by the glands of the mouth; spitle; saliva; sputum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Abbreviated from hospital. ] [ Written also spittle. ] A hospital. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A hospital. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile; -- a childish prank. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Baseball) A pitched ball in throwing which the pitcher grips the ball between two, or three, fingers on one side (which is made slippery, as by saliva) and the thumb on the other side, and delivers it so that it slips off the fingers with the least possible friction; -- also called spitter. When pitched directly overhand a spit ball darts downward, when pitched with the arm extended sidewise it darts down and out. The use of such a pitch is against the rules of professional baseball. [ Cant ] -- Spit baller. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]