spendv. t.[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.)()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.)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.()