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writ by which the commission of the justice of the peace is revived, after having been suspended. Tomlins. Burrill.

usly, or without necessity; one that is profuse or lavish in any expenditure; a waster; a spendthrift. "Noble prodigals of life." Trench.

To act as a prodigal; to spend liberally. Sherwood.

r inspired; as, a profane place. "Profane authors." I. Disraeli. The profane wreath was suspended before the shrine. Gibbon.

To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander. [Obs.] Chapman.

losamia promethea). Its larva feeds on the sassafras, wild cherry, and other trees, and suspends its cocoon from a branch by a silken band.

The material of which paper is made when ground up and suspended in water.

A machine for fanning a room, usually a movable fanlike frame covered with canvas, and suspended from the ceiling. It is kept in motion by pulling a cord. [Hindostan] [Written also punkah.] Malcom.

The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle. Weale.

One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post.

To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.

In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering- ram.

in position to be cut by the knives. Reel oven, a baker's oven in which bread pans hang suspended from the arms of a kind of reel revolving on a horizontal axis. Knight.

To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days. He reprieves the sinnner from time to time. Rogers.

, etc. The fruit from many days of recreation is very little; but from these few hours we spend in prayer, the return is great. Jer. Taylor.

y jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal. This day in mirth and revel to dispend. Chaucer. Some men ruin . . . their bodies by incessant revels. Rambler. Master of the revels, Revel master. Same as Lord of misrule, under Lord.

An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.

To spend or pass in riot. [He] had rioted his life out. Tennyson.

A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also roller towel.

o excess. -- To run through. (a) To go through hastily; as to run through a book. (b) To spend wastefully; as, to run through an estate. -- To run to seed, to expend or exhaust vitality in producing seed, as a plant; figuratively and colloquially, to cease growing; to lose vital force, as the body or mind. -- To run…