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.
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.
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.
