Spend (?), v. i. 1. To
expend money or any other
possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.
He spends as a person who
knows that he must come to
a reckoning.
South. 2. To waste or wear away; to
be consumed; to lose force or
strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.
The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.
Bacon. 3. To be diffused; to spread.
The vines that they use for
wine are so
often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.
Bacon. 4. (Mining) To break ground; to continue working.
Spend (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spent (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Spending.]
[AS.
spendan (in comp.), fr. L.
expendere or dispendere to weigh out,
to expend, dispense. See Pendant, and cf. Dispend, Expend,
Spence, Spencer.] 1. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with;
as, to spend money for clothing.
Spend thou that in
the town.
Shak. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not
bread?
Isa. lv. 2. 2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
I . . . am never loath
To spend my judgment.
Herbert. 3. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in
gaming or other vices.
4. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as,
to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.
We spend
our years as a
tale that is told.
Ps. xc.
9. 5. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as,
the violence of the waves was
spent.
Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst.
Knolles.
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