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as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save. "No cost would he spare." Chaucer. [Thou] thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare. Milton. He that hath knowledge, spareth his words. Prov. xvii. 27.

Sparing; chary. [Obs.] Fairfax. -- Spare"ful*ness, n. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Unsparing. Sylvester.

In a spare manner; sparingly.

The quality or state of being lean or thin; leanness.

One who spares.

A piece of pork, consisting or ribs with little flesh on them.

Imperfect or partial transparency.

Half or imperfectly transparent.

Not perfectly transparent.

To be, or cause to be, transparent; to appear, or cause to appear, or be seen, through something. [Obs.] Stirling.

The quality or state of being transparent; transparency.

The quality or condition of being transparent; transparence.

t bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to Ant: opaque. "Transparent elemental air." Milton.

A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.

A crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; -- formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid.

With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly. Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice. Isa. lviii. 1.

. It is much used as a jeweler's stone. Oriental amethyst, the violet-blue variety of transparent crystallized corundum or sapphire.

Start modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water.