Definition of "spet"

spet

/spɛt/

noun
uncountable
1. (obsolete) spittle
  Quotations
  Well, when I found 'twas Sir Blount my spet dried up within me.
  1882, Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […]
verb
third-person singular simple present spets, present participle spetting, simple past and past participle spetted
1. To spit; to throw out.
  Quotations
  the dragon […] spets her thickest gloom
  1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903,
  A thirsty Train That […] spet from their dry Chaps the gather'd dust again.
  1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]