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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.]

To spend; to squander. See Dispend. [Obs.] Some noble men in Spain can despend Howell.

To spend; to lay out; to expend. [Obs.] Spenser. Able to dispend yearly twenty pounds and above. Fuller.

One who dispends or expends; a steward. [Obs.] Wyclif (1 Cor. iv. 1).

See Misspell, Misspend, etc.

To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips.

One who misspends.

Outlay; expenditure. [R.] A mere outspend of savageness. I. Taylor.

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

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 put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate. It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. Barrow. 'Tis a needfu…

An apparatus designed for collecting spores, germs, bacteria, etc., suspended in the air.

To spend the summer.

ing from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." [Obs.] Chaucer.