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Definition of Spilikins
1. spilikin [n] - See also: spilikin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spilikins
Literary usage of Spilikins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jane Austen's Works by Jane Austen, James Edward Austen-Leigh (1882)
"None of us could throw spilikins in so perfect a circle, or take them off with
so steady a hand. Her performances with cup and ball were marvellous. ..."
2. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"... like what are called spills in the if spilikins ; except at the borders of a
spot, icy point for the most part inwards, towards the of the spot, ..."
3. A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen (1906)
"None of us could throw spilikins in so perfect a circle, or take them off with
so steady a hand. Her performances with cup and ball were marvellous. ..."
4. John Sherman, and Dhoya by William Butler Yeats (1891)
"exist for the sake of these hard, crystalline thoughts, with which he played as
with so many bone spilikins, delighting in his own .skill? and were not all ..."
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