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n.
One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
v. t.
To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.
v. t.
To spend less than.
imp. & p. p.
of Spend
v. t.
To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
v. t.
To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste; as, to trifle away money.
v. t.
To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
v. t.
To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.
n.
One who has the care of the spence, or buttery.
a.
Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faerie Queene."
v. i.
To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.
n.
One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Spend
a.
To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
n.
A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer.
n.
One who wastes; a spendthrift.
a.
Spendthrift; prodigal.
a.
Not spent in study.
n.
A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802].
v. i.
To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.
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