\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.
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.

\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.