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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.

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.

and without actual contact with the heated surface, -- a phenomenon due to the repulsive force of heat, the intervention of a cushion of nonconducting vapor, and the cooling effect of evaporation.

A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction. [Obs.]

elligence conceived of apart from any physical organization or embodiment; vital essence, force, or energy, as distinct from matter.

To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin. Cold winter split the rocks in twain. Dryden.

To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder. No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man. Mark iii. 27.

or acting from native feeling, proneness, or temperament, without constraint or external force. Romney Leigh, who lives by diagrams, And crosses not the spontaneities Of all his individual, personal life With formal universals. Mrs. Browning.

Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or natural law, without external force; as, spontaneous motion; spontaneous growth.

Water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like.

To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; -- often with in, out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar.

To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To throw out, as a liquid, in a stream or jet; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth.

To force, or cause to pass, by compression; often with out, through, etc.; as, to squeeze water through felt.

That which is forced out by pressure; dregs.

An instrument out of which a liquid is ejected in a small stream with force. Young.

To be or remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity; to abide. Bouvier.

he flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level at a distance.

In a stark manner; stiffly; strongly. Its onward force too starky pent In figure, bone, and lineament. Emerson.

To deprive of force or vigor; to disable. The pens of historians, writing thereof, seemed starved for matter in an age so fruitful of memorable actions. Fuller. The powers of their minds are starved by disuse. Locke.