spel2 (spel)

[D. spel, play: see spells.] Play. Sooth play, quad spel , as the Flemyng seith. Chaucer , Prol. to Cook's Tale, 1. 33. [In Tyrwhitt's edition alone, apparently his own substitution of the Dutch for its English equivalent play, which appears in all other editions.] spelæan, spelean (spēlē'an), a. [ læum, ult. E. spelunc ), ing or formed by a cave; cavernous. Owen, Long man's Mag., Nov., 1882, p. 67.-2. Inhabiting caves or caverns; cave-dwelling; cavernicolous; troglodyte. Fraser's Mag. Also spe luncous.