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take turns working "the workers spell every four hours" -
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indicate or signify "I'm afraid this spells trouble!" -
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orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of "How do you spell this word?" "We had to spell out our names for the police officer" -
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place under a spell -
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write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word) "He spelled the word wrong in this letter" -
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relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn "She spelled her husband at the wheel" -
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a verbal formula believed to have magical force "he whispered a spell as he moved his hands","inscribed around its base is a charm in Balinese" -
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a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation -
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a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition "he was here for a little while","I need to rest for a piece","a spell of good weather","a patch of bad weather" -
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a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) "it's my go","a spell of work"
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A spelk, or splinter. -
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A story; a tale. "Hearken to my spell ." -
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One of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells. "Their toil is so extreme that they can not endure it above four hours in a day, but are succeeded by spells ." -
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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. "A spell at the wheel is called a trick." -
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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. "Nothing new has happened in this quarter, except the setting in of a severe spell of cold weather." -
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To constitute; to measure. "The Saxon heptarchy, when seven kings put together did spell but one in effect." -
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To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm. "Spelled with words of power.", "He was much spelled with Eleanor Talbot." -
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To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman. -
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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. "The word “satire” ought to be spelled with i, and not with y."
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A tale; story; narrative. -
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Speech; word of mouth; direct address. -
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A charm consisting of some words of supposed occult power; any form of words, whether written or spoken, supposed to be endowed with magical virtues; an incantation; hence, any means or cause of enchantment, literally or figuratively; a magical or an enthralling charm; a condition of enchantment; fascination; as, to cast a spell over a person; to be under a spell, or bound by a spell. -
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To tell; relate; teach; disclose. -
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To act as a spell upon; entrance; enthrall; fascinate; charm. -
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To imbue with magic properties. -
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To tell; tell a story; give an account. -
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To tell or set forth letter by letter; set down letter by letter; tell the letters of; form by or in letters. -
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To read letter by letter, or with laborious effort; hence, to discover by careful study; make out point by point: often with out or orer. -
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To constitute, as letters constitute a word; make up. -
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To form words with the proper letters, in either reading or writing; repeat or set down the letters of words. -
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To make a study; engage in careful contemplation of something. -
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To take the place of (another person) temporarily in doing something; take turns with; relieve for a time; give a rest to. Sometimes there are two ostensible boilers [slaves in charge of sugar-boiling] to spell and relieve one another. -
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A turn of work or duty in place of another; an interval of relief by another person; an exchange of work and rest: as, to take one's regular spell; to work the pumps by spells. -
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Hence. A continuous course of employment in work or duty; a turn of occupation between periods of rest; a bout. -
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An interval of. rest or relaxation; a turn or period of relief from work; a resting-time. -
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Any interval of time within definite limits; an unbroken term or period. -
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A short period, indefinitely; an odd or occasional interval; an uncertain term; a while. -
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A bad turn; an uncomfortable time; a period of personal ailment or ill feeling. -
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A chip, splinter, or splint. -
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In the game of nur-and-spell, the steel spring by which the nur is thrown into the air. -
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One of the transverse pieces at the bottom of a chair which strengthen and keep together the legs.
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spel any form of words supposed to possess magical power: fascination -
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to tell or name the letters of: to name, write, or print the proper letters of -
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to form words with the proper letters: to study:—pr.p. spell′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. spelled, spelt -
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spel to take another's place at work -
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spell′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. spelled -
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a turn at work: a short period indefinitely: an interval of rest: a bad turn
Dry spell - If something or someone is having a dry spell, they aren't being as successful as they normally are.
Good spell - A spell can mean a fairly or relatively short period of time; you'll hear weather forecasts predict a dry spell. Sports commentators will say that a sportsperson is going through a good spell when they're performing consistently better than they normally do.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. spellen, spellien, tell, relate, AS. spellian, fr. spell, a saying, tale; akin to MHG. spellen, to relate, Goth. spilln,.e Spell a tale. In sense 4 and those following, OE. spellen, perhaps originally a different word, and from or influenced by spell, a splinter, from the use of a piece of wood to point to the letters in schools: cf. D. spellen, to spell. Cf. Spell splinter
Fainting Spells Often Tied to Too Many Meds at Once: Study. usnews.com
Barring a successful appeal, a ruling Wednesday spells the end to the Authors Guild's claims related to HathiTrust--a massive digitization project involving Google Inc and a group of university libraries. americanlawyer.com
So whenever I go about hiring a new reporter (or any job at Snyder Communications), we always administer a spelling test. evesun.com
Every year we wait for the monsoon season to come and beat the heat of summer's spell. star1015.com
During the midst of my misguided poor-artist spell I went to Whole Foods to do what many vagabond people rave about: grazing for a meal. curvemag.com
Spelling's husband is holding their daughter Stella. qcsunonline.com
Just ask celeb mom Tori Spelling. qcsunonline.com
Red glitter spelled out S-A-N-T-A on one side of the signs, which they continued to take to the parade in the years after. thestar.com
Matusevich says the gnats were expected to depart by November, but warm spells have kept them around. onlineathens.com
It seems the only time Bill Long uses his kitchen is to prepare foods he can't spell. cbsnews.com
Alcoa Rotary takes first place in Spelling Bee. blounttoday.com
Zerban supporters spell his name in lights on a bridge in Walworth County, Wisconsin. usnews.com
In plain English, what such messages usually spell is trouble, and, where a computer is equipped with a hard drive , quite often that's where the trouble lies. nytimes.com
Cast a spell — that is what movies (at least nondocumentary ones) are or were supposed to do, and yet how often do they achieve that aim today. sfbg.com
The letters on the license plate to Rod Reprogle's 2003 Chevy Silverado SS spell out RODSTOY. ilsonpost.com
First, we spell out the reduction semantics of type-preserving combinators, and we formalise the corresponding generic type TP.
Typed Generic Traversal With Term Rewriting Strategies
Here we repeat essentially the same argument and spell out it in the d = 2 case with the appropriate modifications, using Lemma 2.2.
Maximal local time of a d-dimensional simple random walk on subsets
This section spells out some further corollaries of Theorem 3.
Regenerative partition structures
Next, after spelling out (2.1), reducing the (apparently longer) list of equations to a minimal one, and then writing and organizing them in a convenient way, we arrive at the following (in local coordinates, the equations bellow also appear in ).
Generalized complex structures and Lie brackets
This expansion can be spelled down physically as follows.
Can one tell Einstein's unimodular theory from Einstein's general relativity?
He broke the spell; she sank from the poet into the embarrassed woman. "Robert Elsmere" by
Then a magic spell overpowered her, and she swam on and on vainly seeking to rise above the waters, but always unable to do so. "Finnish Legends for English Children" by
The spell that holds it fast is the all-potent spell of the Wizard of the Cave. "The Shadow Witch" by
It was a class in spelling. "Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4" by
I am one of little note, and my name not worth the spelling. "Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)" by
It was Saturday noon, and the fourth class was spelling. "Little Grandfather" by
I never heard a word spelled in that way. "In The Boyhood of Lincoln" by
So I think I'd better learn that summoning spell first. "Zeta Exchange" by
During this, their first spell by the trail, Stonor was highly amused to watch Clare's way with Mary. "The Woman from Outside" by
Spelling gave him more trouble. "Lola" by
She binds him with her hair;
Oh, break the spell with holy words,
Unbind him with a prayer!"
Nor thy trees of a thousand dyes,
But all touch my heart with thy sweet spell,
Oh, earth, and air, and skies.
Which long hath bound me with its spell;
My thoughts shall never waken more
In tenderness for thee—Farewell!
The dream, that wishing boyhood knows,
Is but a bright, beguiling spell,
That only lives while passion glows.
O'er the souls of the old and young,
And never again -- how it makes me grieve --
Shall I sing as once I sung.
In the eyes and the hair of a child at play;
And the spell of joy that our youth beguiled
Is woven anew in the laugh of the child.