Spend
(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.
Spender
(Spen"der) n. One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
Spending
(Spend"ing), n. The act of expending; expenditure.
Spending money, money set apart for extra (not necessary) personal expenses; pocket money. [Colloq.]
Spendthrift
(Spend"thrift`) n. One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who
lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively.
A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life.
Mrs. R. H. Davis. Spendthrift
(Spend"thrift), a. Prodigal; extravagant; wasteful.
Spendthrifty
(Spend"thrift`y) a. Spendthrift; prodigal. [R.]
Spenserian
(Spen*se"ri*an) a. Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; — specifically applied to
the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
Spent
(Spent) a.
1. Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.
Now thou seest me
Spent, overpowered, despairing of success.
Addison.
Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground.
Dryden. 2. (Zoöl.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; — said especially of fishes.
Spent ball, a ball shot from a firearm, which reaches an object without having sufficient force to penetrate
it.
Sper
(Sper Sperre), v. t. [See Spar bar.] To shut in; to support; to inclose; to fasten. [Obs.] "To sperre
the gate." Spenser.
Sperable
(Spe"ra*ble) a. [L. spearabilis, fr. sperare to hope.] Within the range of hpe; proper to be
hoped for. [Obs.] Bacon.
Sperable
(Sper"a*ble) n. See Sperable.
