To Spell

1. (transitive, obsolete) To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort. [from 14th c.]
2. (transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word. [from 16th c.]
3. (intransitive) To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
4. (transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word). [from 19th c.]
5. (transitive, figuratively, with “out”) To clarify; to explain in detail. [from 20th c.]
6. (transitive) To indicate that (some event) will occur. [from 19th c.]

7. To constitute; to measure.
8. (obsolete) To speak, to declaim. [9th-16th c.]
9. (obsolete) To tell; to relate; to teach.

Synonyms

• (to indicate that some event will occur): forebode; mean; signify
• (to compose a word): (informal) comprise