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spiall
spiall
English
Alternative forms
- spyale spial
Noun
spiall (usually uncountable, plural spiall)
- (archaic) A spy; spies.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book I, lxvii:
- For he by faithful spiall was assur'd, / That Egypt's king was forward on his way.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book I, lxvii:
- (archaic) The act of spying; espionage.