[f. SPY sb.] The office or occupation of a spy.
1779. Warner, in Jesse, Selwyn & Contemp. (1844), IV. 43. So, sir, there is an end of my affair and my spyship, for I do not think I can have anything else to say to you about it.
1825. Ld. Cockburn, Mem., 327. The inconvenient fact of his having received considerable sums … from Government—not for his spyship.
1865. Athenæum, No. 1956. 554/2. Personal spyship on the part of Jonson.
