Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Spend"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Spend \Spend\, v. i.
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. (Mining) To break ground; to continue working.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Spend \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}.]
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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

spend
v 1: pass in a specific way; as of time; "How are you spending
your summer vacation?" [syn: {pass}]
2: pay out; "spend money" [syn: {expend}, {drop}]
3: spend completely; "I spend my pocket money in two days"


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