Now dial. [f. SPET v.] The or an act of spitting; spit, spittle. Also Comb.
1446. Lydg., Nightingale P., I. 259. Hogh that the Iewes … There all defouled with spet his blessed face.
1570. Levins, Manip., 86. Spet or spetting, sputum.
1592. Nashe, P. Penilesse, Wks. (Grosart), II. 67. Would you … gesse it were possible for anie shame-swolne toad to haue the spet-proofe face to out liue this disgrace?
a. 1658. Lovelace, Lucasta, Posth., 42. The speckl’d Toad … Defies his foe with a fell Spet.
1882. T. Hardy, Two on Tower, xxii. Well, when I found ’twas Sir Blount my spet dried up within me.
