I . . . am never loath To spend my judgment.

Herbert.

3. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an

estate in gaming or other vices.

4. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly;

to spend winter abroad.

We spend our years as a tale that is told.

Ps. xc. 9.

5. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the

violence of the waves was spent.

Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst.

Knolles.

Spend (?), v. i. 1. To expend money or any other possession; to

consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily

spends freely.

He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning.

South.

2. To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to

vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.

The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.

Bacon.

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