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   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.]
   To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
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   Spend thou that in the town.
   Shak.
   
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   Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread?
   Isa. lv. 2.
   
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   To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
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   I . . . am never loath
   To spend my judgment.
   Herbert.
   
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   To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
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   To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.
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   We spend our years as a tale that is told.
   Ps. xc. 9.
   
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   To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.
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   Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst.
   Knolles.
   
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   Spend , v. i.
   To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.
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   He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning.
   South.
   
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   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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   The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.
   Bacon.
   
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   To be diffused; to spread.
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   The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.
   Bacon.
   
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   (Mining) To break ground; to continue working.
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