spial
English
Alternative forms
- spyale
- spiall
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈspaɪəl/
- Rhymes: -aɪəl
Noun
spial (countable and uncountable, plural spials)
- (obsolete) Espionage.
- (obsolete) A spy.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- And priuie spials plast in all his way, / To weete what course he takes, and how he fares […]
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
- [ Charles François Dumouriez ], roaming far out, obscure, as King's spial, or sitting sealed up, enchanted in Bastille […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
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