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Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."

Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force. Now thou seest me Spent, overpowered, despairing of success. Addison. Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground. Dryden.

Any one of a group of fishes having the dorsal and anal fins partially covered with scales.

To become steep or steeper. As the way steepened . . . I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path. H. Miller.

Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.

Acting from mercenary considerations; stipendiary. A. Seward.

Receiving wages, or salary; performing services for a stated price or compensation. His great stipendiary prelates came with troops of evil-appointed horseman not half full. Knolles.

To provide with a stipend, or salary; to support; to pay. Evelyn. It is good to endow colleges, and to found chairs, and to stipendiate professors. I. Taylor.

Having no stipend.

Stepped; gone; advanced. [Obs.] A poor widow, somedeal stope in age. Chaucer.

Noisy; loud. [R.] Shenstone.

onishing; wonderful; amazing; especially, astonishing in magnitude or elevation; as, a stupendous pile. "A stupendous sum." Macaulay. All are but parts of one stupendous whole. Pope. -- Stu*pen"dous*ly, adv. -- Stu*pen"dous*ness, n.

Under, or at the foot of, the Apennine mountains; -- applied, in geology, to a series of Tertiary strata of the older Pliocene period.

See Subpoena.

Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.

To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.

One who, or that which, suspends; esp., one of a pair of straps or braces worn over the shoulders, for holding up the trousers.

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended, especially for a short time; temporary suspension.

Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding. [Obs.] [The great light of day] suspense in heaven. Milton.

In suspense. [Obs.] Hales.