_or_ slided.
Slit, slitted _or_ slit, slitting, slitted _or_ slit.
Smell, smelled _or_ smelt, smelling, smelled _or_ smelt.
Sow, sowed, sowing, sowed _or_ sown.
Speed, sped _or_ speeded, speeding, sped _or_ speeded.
Spell, spelled _or_ spelt, spelling, spelled _or_ spelt.
Spill, spilled _or_ spilt, spilling, spilled _or_ spilt.
Split, split _or_ splitted, splitting, split
_or_ splitted.[294]
Spoil, spoiled _or_ spoilt, spoiling, spoiled _or_ spoilt.
Stave, stove _or_ staved, staving, stove _or_ staved.
Stay, staid _or_ stayed, staying, staid _or_ stayed.
String, strung _or_ stringed, stringing, strung _or_ stringed.
Strive, strived _or_ strove, striving, strived _or_ striven.
Strow, strowed, strowing, strowed _or_ strown.
Sweat, sweated _or_ sweat, sweating, sweated _or_ sweat.
Sweep, swept _or_ sweeped, sweeping, swept _or_ sweeped.
Swell, swelled, swelling, swelled _or_ swollen.
Thrive, thrived _or_ throve, thriving, thrived _or_ thriven.
Throw, threw _or_ throwed, throwing, thrown _or_ throwed.
Wake, waked _or_ woke, waking, waked _or_ woke.
Wax, waxed, waxing, waxed _or_ waxen.
Weave, wove _or_ weaved, weaving, woven _or_ weaved.
Wed, wedded _or_ wed, wedding, wedded _or_ wed.
Weep, wept _or_ weeped, weeping, wept _or_ weeped.
Wet, wet _or_ wetted, wetting, wet _or_ wetted.
Whet, whetted _or_ whet, whetting, whetted _or_ whet.[295]
Wind, wound _or_ winded, winding, wound _or_ winded.
Wont, wont _or_ wonted, wonting, wont _or_ wonted.
Work, worked _or_ wrought, working, worked _or_ wrought.
Wring, wringed _or_ wrung, wringing, wringed _or_ wrung.[296]

DEFECTIVE VERBS.

A _defective verb_ is a verb that forms no participles, and is used in but
few of the moods and tenses; as, _beware, ought, quoth_.

OBSERVATIONS.

OBS. 1. When any of the principal parts of a verb are wanting, the tenses
usually derived from those parts are also, of course, want