Wait and Spell

wait

Time during which some action is awaited.
- usage: "instant replay caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the action"
- synonyms: delay, hold, time lag, postponement
The act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something. )
- usage: "the wait was an ordeal for him"
- synonyms: waiting

Stay in one place and anticipate or expect something.
- usage: "I had to wait on line for an hour to get the tickets"
Wait before acting.
- usage: "the scientists held off announcing their results until they repeated the experiment"
- synonyms: hold off, hold back
Look forward to the probable occurrence of.
- usage: "We were expecting a visit from our relatives"; "She is looking to a promotion"; "he is waiting to be drafted"
- synonyms: expect, look, await
Serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant.
- usage: "I'm waiting on tables at Maxim's"
- synonyms: waitress

(v.t.) To cause to wait; to defer; to postpone; -- said of a meal; as, to wait dinner.
(v.i.) Ambush.
(v.i.) One who watches; a watchman.
(v.t.) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
(v.i.) The act of waiting; a delay; a halt.
(v.i.) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen.
(v.i.) Hautboys or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular.
(v.i.) To watch; to observe; to take notice.
(v.i.) To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary till the arrival of some person or event; to rest in patience; to stay; not to depart.
(v.t.) To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders.
(v.t.) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Wait is a masculine given name

spell

A psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation.
- synonyms: enchantment, trance
A time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else. )
- usage: "it's my go"; "a spell of work"
- synonyms: go, tour, turn
A period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition.
- usage: "he was here for a little while"; "I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a patch of bad weather"
- synonyms: while, piece, patch
A verbal formula believed to have magical force.
- usage: "he whispered a spell as he moved his hands"; "inscribed around its base is a charm in Balinese"
- synonyms: magic spell, magical spell, charm

Orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of.
- usage: "How do you spell this word" "We had to spell out our names for the police officer"
- synonyms: spell out
Indicate or signify.
- usage: "I'm afraid this spells trouble"
- synonyms: import
Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word. )
- usage: "He spelled the word wrong in this letter"
- synonyms: write
Relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn.
- usage: "She spelled her husband at the wheel"
Place under a spell.
Take turns working.
- usage: "the workers spell every four hours"

(n.) A story; a tale.
(v.i.) To study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study.
(v.t.) To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
(v.t.) To constitute; to measure.
(n.) A stanza, verse or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm.
(v.t.) To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.
(v.t.) To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, especially the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography.
(v.t.) To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; -- usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible.
(n.) A gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell.
(n.) The relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spell at the pumps; a spell at the masthead.
(n.) The time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days or weeks.
(v.i.) To form words with letters, especially with the proper letters, either orally or in writing.
(n.) A spelk or splinter.
(v.t.) To tell; to relate; to teach.
(n.) One of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary