They gave him chase, and hunted him as hare; Long had he no space
to dwell [in].
R. of Brunne.
While I have time and space.
Chaucer.
3. A quantity or portion of extension; distance from one thing to
another; an interval between any two or more objects; as, the space
between two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a
mile.
Put a space betwixt drove and drove.
Gen. xxxii. 16.
4. Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration;
time. "Grace God gave him here, this land to keep long space." R. of
brunne.
Nine times the space that measures day and night.
Milton.
God may defer his judgments for a time, and give a people a longer
space of repentance.
Tillotson.
5. A short time; a while. [R.] "To stay your deadly strife a space."
Spenser.