Dictionary

Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.

Example: He cast a spell to cure warts.

A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.

Example: under a spell

Speech, discourse.

To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.

To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.

(sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.

To be able to write or say the letters that form words.

Example: I find it difficult to spell because I'm dyslexic.

Of letters: to compose (a word).

Example: The letters “a”, “n” and “d” spell “and”.

A shift (of work); a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.

A definite period (of work or other activity).

An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.

A period of rest; time off.

To work in place of (someone).

Example: to spell the helmsman

To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.

Example: They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook.

To rest from work for a time.

A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.

The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.