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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Spend

Spēnd, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SPENT; p. pr. & vb. n. SPENDING.] [A-S. spendan, āspendan, N. H. Ger. spenden, O. H. Ger. spendon, spentôn, from Lat. expendere or dispendere, to weigh out, to expend, dispense, It. spendere, Dan. spendere, Sw. spendera.] 1. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread? Isa. lv. 2. Spend thou that in town. Shak. 2. To bestow for any purpose;—often with on or upon. I . . . am never loth— To spend my judgment. Herbert.

  1. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
  2. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly.
  3. 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.

Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground. Dryden.

Spēnd, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1. To make expense; to make disposition of money; as, he spends like a prudent man. 2. To be lost or wasted; to vanish; to be dissipated; to be consumed. The vines they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes. Bacon. The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air. Bacon. 3. To prove in the use. [Rare.] Butter spent as if it came from the richer soil. Sir W. Temple.