Spend — Defs

01 v. t. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.

imp. & p. p. Spent; p. pr. & vb. n. Spending

1.
To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
“Spend thou that in the town.” — Shak.

“Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread?” — Isa. lv. 2.
2.
To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
“I . . . am never loath To spend my judgment.” — Herbert.
3.
To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
4.
To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.
“We spend our years as a tale that is told.” — Ps. xc. 9.
5.
To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.
“Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst.” — Knolles.

02 v. i. To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.

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.
To break ground; to continue working.(Mining)