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fts of light. And the thunder, Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts. Milton. Some kinds of literary pursuits . . . have been attacked with all the shafts of ridicule. V. Knox.

air sings in passing through a crevice. O'er his head the flying spear Sang innocent, and spent its force in air. Pope.

In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily. Honestly and slyly he it spent. Chaucer.

o 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.

ried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight. Sir P. Sidney. Think it but a minute spent in sport. Shak.

a manner, or with the care, of a steward. [R.] To be stewardly dispensed, not wastefully spent. Tooker.

tion. [R.] His son builds on, and never is content Till the last farthing is in structure spent. J. Dryden, Jr.

rts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquiring knowledge. Hammond . . . spent thirteen hours of the day in study. Bp. Fell. Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace. Sir W. Temple.

the fingers. The staggerings of the gentleman . . . were like those of a teetotum nearly spent. Dickens.

A person who keeps a record of the time spent by workmen at their work.

chamber used in the sulphuric acid process, to absorb (by means of concentrated acid) the spent nitrous fumes that they may be returned to the Glover's tower to be reemployed. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric, and Glover's tower, below. -- Glover's tower (Chem.), a large tower or chamber used in the manufacture of…

Not spent in study. [Obs.] "To cloak the defects of their unstudied years." Milton.

Not thriftily. [Obs.] "Unthriftfully spent." Sir J. Cheke.

Law), an estate settled, to remain to a determined person, after the particular estate is spent. Blackstone. Kent.

oken rainbow. These water galls, in her dim element, Foretell new storms to those already spent. Shak. False good news are [is] always produced by true good, like the water gall by the rainbow. Walpole.

hed, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually. "Thus wore out night." Milton. Away, I say; time wears. Shak. Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou and this people that is with thee. Ex. xviii. 18. His stock of money began to wear very low. Sir W. Scott. The f…

y; direction. [Obs.] "At a turning of a wente." Chaucer. But here my weary team, nigh overspent, Shall breathe itself awhile after so long a went. Spenser. He knew the diverse went of mortal ways. Spenser.

ination, in small successive portions, to be burned. But true it is, that when the oil is spent The light goes out, and wick is thrown away. Spenser.

Worth the time or effort spent. See worth while. worthy. -- worthwhileness.

th. "The wrinkles in my brows." Shak. Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth. Emerson.