_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.

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