Definition of Spells

1. Noun. (plural of spell) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of spell) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spells

1. spell [v] - See also: spell

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spells

spellfire
spellful
spelling
spelling alphabet
spelling bee
spelling bees
spelling checker
spelling contest
spelling off
spellings
spellken
spellkens
spelloff
spelloffs
spellos
spells (current term)
spellwork
spelt
spelter
spelters
speltmeal
spelts
speltz
speltzes
spelunc
speluncar
spelunk
spelunked
spelunker
spelunkers

Literary usage of Spells

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1907)
"Fear of spells and Charms Senate Report no. J27, 44 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 1052. ... Je would — as they always believed in what they called "spells" or "charms" ..."

2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1835)
"spells of the Heart. which have been already quoted, Columbia College may point to the catalogue of her more recent graduates, and boast, as she mourns ..."

3. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... With one fair form to grace his side, Or, in some wild and lone retreat, Flung her high spells around his seat, 690 Bathed in her dews his languid head, ..."

4. Teutonic mythology by Jacob Grimm, James Steven Stallybrass (1888)
"spells. I. A3. spell for pricking pains. Harl. MSS. no. 585. fol. ... Many more AS. spells might be culled oat of MSS. cited by Wanley, pp. 44. 83. 223. ..."

5. Biographic Clinics by George Milbry Gould (1907)
"A CASE IN WHICH "SINKING spells"—"THOUSANDS OF THEM ... vomiting, and "swooning fits," or "fainting spells." I class the vomiting as a separate symptom, ..."

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