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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.

Already spent; gone by; past. [Obs.] Shak.

Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted. [Archaic] A gentleman almost forspent with speed. Shak.

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Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life. "One abstemious day." Pope.

Knowing; conscious; cognizant. [R.] A man that has spent his younger years in vanity and folly, and is, by the grace of God, apprehensive of it. Jer. Taylor.

ges; as, master of arts. In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts. Pope. Four years spent in the arts (as they are called in colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation. Goldsmith.

ehavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain. [Obs.] He did behave his anger ere 't was spent. Shak.

h about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel.

Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath.

Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent. "Consumable commodities." Locke.

Gratification; pleasure; satisfaction. [Obs.] At Paris the prince spent one whole day to give his mind some contentment in viewing of a famous city. Sir H. Wotton.

sting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon.

stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread. He spent every day ten hours in his closet, in darning his stockins. Swift. Darning last. See under Last. -- Darning needle. (a) A long, strong needle for mending holes or rents, especially in stockings. (b) (Zoöl.) Any species of d…

s. Bp. Burnet. We deduct from the computation of our years that part of our time which is spent in . . . infancy. Norris.

or that develops 100 horse power. These serve to develop its tenets. Milner. The 20th was spent in strengthening our position and developing the line of the enemy. The Century.

In great part; as, the day is far spent.

on; in plain sight; in readiness for use. (b) In existence; alive; not worn out, lost, or spent, as money, etc. [Irish] "While I am to the fore." W. Collins. "How many captains in the regiment had two thousand pounds to the fore" Thackeray.

Spent with heat; covered with sweat. [Obs.] P. Sidney.

unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy. They in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours. Milton.