spawl

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  1. See spall.
  2. See spall.
  3. Saliva or spittle thrown out carelessly; slaver. The new-born infant from the cradle takes, And first of spittle she lustration makes; Then in the spawl her middle finger dips, Anoints the temples, forehead, and the lips. Dryden, tr. of Persius's Satires, ii.
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  1. A contr. of spattle.
  2. Formerly also spall; from spawl, n.
 

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