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Breaking out; -- said of certain fungi which burst through the texture of leaves.

y way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations. If my death might make this island happy . . . I would expend i…

A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers. Mozley & W.

The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement. our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest. Burke.

A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure. Husband nature's riches from expense. Shak.

Full of expense; costly; chargeable. [R.] Sir H. Wotton. -- Ex*pense"ful*ly, adv. [R.] -- Ex*pense"ful*ness, n. [R.]

Without cost or expense.

Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family. War is expensive, and peace desirable. Burke.

That which makes the eyes open, as startling news or occurrence, or (U. S. Slang), a drink of liquor, esp. the first one in the morning.

Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.

The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, -- so called in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States. [Obs.]

Already spent; gone by; past. [Obs.] Shak.

Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted. [Archaic] A gentleman almost forspent with speed. Shak.

A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat.

Something which gets or gains money; a successful affair. [Colloq.] Chapman.

To surprise or astonish; to be startled or astonished. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A half-penny.

An English coin of the value of half a penny; also, the value of half a penny.

come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out. There shall no evil happen to the just. Prov. xii. 21.

Made of hemp; as, a hempen cord.