SPEND, v.t. pret. and pp. spent. [L. expendo; from the root of L. pando, pendeo, the primary sense of which is to strain, to open or spread; allied to span, pane, &c.] 1. To 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? Is. 55.2. To consume; to waste; to squander; as to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.3. To consume; to exhaust. The provisions were spent, and the troops were in want.4. To bestow for any purpose; often with on or upon. It is folly to spend words in debate on trifles.5. To effuse. [Little used.]6. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away. They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Job. 13.7. To lay out; to exert or to waste; to wear away; as, to spend one's strength.8. To exhaust of force; to waste; to wear away; as, a ball had spend its force. The violence of the waves was spent. Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground.9. To exhaust of strength; to harass; to fatigue. Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst-SPEND, v.i. 1. To make expense; to make disposition of money. He spends like a prudent man.2. To be lost or wasted; to vanish; to be dissipated. The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.3. To prove in the use. -Butter spent as if it cam from the richer soil.4. To be consumed. Candles spend fast in a current of air Our provision spend rapidly.5. To be employed to any use. The vines they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes. [Unusual.]
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