colloq. [f. SPELL v.2] A way or mode of spelling a word.
1702. C. Mather, Magn. Chr., VII. v. (1852), 546. There were eighteen horrid false spells … in one short note that I received from him.
1801. Monthly Mag., XII. 299. Why should this spell (as school children say, and, I think, rightly, for mode of spelling) be authorized?
