spill

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To cause or allow (a substance) to run or fall out of a container.
• intransitive verb To scatter (objects) from containment.
• intransitive verb To shed (blood).
• intransitive verb To relieve the pressure of wind on (a sail).
• intransitive verb To cause or allow (wind) to be lost from a sail.
• intransitive verb To cause to fall.
• intransitive verb Informal To disclose (something previously unknown); divulge.
• intransitive verb To run or fall out of a container or containment.
• intransitive verb To come to the ground suddenly and involuntarily.
• intransitive verb To pour out or spread beyond limits.
• noun The act of spilling.
• noun An amount spilled.
• noun A fall, as from a horse.
• noun A spillway.
• noun A piece of wood or rolled paper used to light a fire.
• noun A small peg or rod, especially one used as a plug; a spile.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To inlay, diversify, or piece out with spills, splinters, or chips; cover with small patches resembling spills. In the quotation it denotes inlaying with small pieces of ivory.
• noun A splinter; a chip.
• noun A little bar or pin; a peg.
• noun A slip or strip of wood or paper meant for use as a lamplighter.
• noun A small peg or pin for stopping a cask; a spile: as, a vent-hole stopped with a spill.
• noun The spindle of a spinning-wheel.
• noun A trifling sum of money; a small fee.
• noun A throw or fall, as from a saddle or a vehicle.
• noun A downpour; a flood.
• To brace or stay a drift or adit with piles.
• noun plural The thin layers or filaments of cinder in wrought-iron bars of poor quality due to imperfect working of the metal in squeezer, hammer, or roll treatment.
• To destroy; kill; slay.
• To injure; mar; spoil; ruin.
• To waste; squander; spend.
• To suffer or cause to flow out or become lost; shed: used especially of blood, as in wilful killing.
• To suffer to fall or run out accidentally and wastefully, and not as by pouring: said of fluids or of substances in fine grains or powder, such as flour or sand: as, to spill wine; to spill salt.
• To let out; let leak out; divulge: said of matters concealed.
• Nautical, to discharge the wind from, as from the belly of a sail, in order to furl or reef it.
• To throw, as from the saddle or a vehicle; overthrow.
• Synonyms Splash, etc. See slop.
• To kill; slay; destroy; spread ruin.
• To come to ruin or destruction; perish; die.
• To be wasteful or prodigal.
• To run out and become shed or wasted.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb obsolete To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
• intransitive verb To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.
• transitive verb obsolete To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
• noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
• noun A slender piece of anything.
• noun A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
• noun A metallic rod or pin.
• noun A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
• noun (Mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.