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Spittle or Spital

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“A spittle or hospital for poore folks diseased a spittle, hospitall, or lazarhouse for lepers.”—Baret: Alveaire (1580).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Spirits
Spirits (Elemental)
Spirited Away
Spiritual Mother
Spiritualism or Spiritism
Spirt or Spurt
Spitalfields (London)
Spite of His Teeth (In)
Spitfire
Spitting for Luck
Spittle or Spital
Spittle Sermons
Splay
Spleen
Splendid Shilling
Splice
Splice the Main Brace
Spoke (verb)
Spoke (noun)
Sponge
Spontaneous Combustion