the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun-and-verb. Spite.
n. A woodpecker. See speight.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
An obsolete erroneous spelling of spite.
Word Usage
"This is my Place in spight of thee, and all thy fawning Faction, and I shall keep it, when thou, perhaps, shalt be an humble Suppliant here at my Foot-stool."