"spial" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Aphetic form of espial.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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      "glosses": [
        "Espionage."
      ],
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        "(obsolete) Espionage."
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          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "And priuie spials plast in all his way, / To weete what course he takes, and how he fares […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):",
          "text": "[ Charles François Dumouriez ], roaming far out, obscure, as King's spial, or sitting sealed up, enchanted in Bastille […]",
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      "glosses": [
        "A spy."
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        "(obsolete) A spy."
      ],
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        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈspaɪəl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪəl"
    }
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "spyale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "spiall"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spial"
}

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  "etymology_text": "Aphetic form of espial.",
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "glosses": [
        "Espionage."
      ],
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        "(obsolete) Espionage."
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          "text": "And priuie spials plast in all his way, / To weete what course he takes, and how he fares […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):",
          "text": "[ Charles François Dumouriez ], roaming far out, obscure, as King's spial, or sitting sealed up, enchanted in Bastille […]",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A spy."
      ],
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        ]
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        "(obsolete) A spy."
      ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈspaɪəl/"
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}