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Depending on one's self.

Suspended by one's self or by itself; balanced. Southey.

To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. Spend thou that in the town. Shak. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread Isa. lv. 2.

One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.

The act of expending; expenditure. Spending money, money set apart for extra (not necessary) personal expenses; pocket money. [Colloq.]

One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.

Spendthrift; prodigal. [R.]

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

Acting from mercenary considerations; stipendiary. A. Seward.

ng 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.

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.

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.

To spend less than.

To end up; to set on end, as a cask.

To value lightly; to depreciate; to slight; to despise. To vilipend the art of portrait painting. Longfellow.

Disesteem; slight; disparagement. [R.] E. Waterhouse.

the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. The abandonment of the independence of Europe. Burke.