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SPEND, 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? Isaiah 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,

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.