Definition of spend

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Spend (v. t.) To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent..

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Hammock :: Hammock (n.) A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends..
Reprieve :: Reprieve (v. t.) To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days..
Lance :: Lance (n.) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
Gallows :: Gallows (n. sing.) A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything..
Pulp :: Pulp (n.) The material of which paper is made when ground up and suspended in water.
Hanger :: Hanger (n.) That by which a thing is suspended.
Suspensory :: Suspensorium (n.) Anything which suspends or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals..
Ram :: Ram (n.) In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram..
Desiccator :: Desiccator (n.) A short glass jar fitted with an air-tight cover, and containing some desiccating agent, as sulphuric acid or calcium chloride, above which is suspended the material to be dried, or preserved from moisture..
Suspension :: Suspension (n.) The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook..
Adjourn :: Adjourn (v. i.) To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day..
Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Toss :: Toss (v. t.) To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar..
Dispender :: Dispender (n.) One who dispends or expends; a steward.
Doze :: Doze (v. t.) To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one's time..
Overhung :: Overhung (a.) Suspended from above or from the top.
Sling :: Sling (v. t.) A strap attached to a firearm, for suspending it from the shoulder..
Slipthrift :: Slipthrift (n.) A spendthrift.
Grease :: Grease (n.) An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences..
Sweat :: Sweat (v. t.) To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers..
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