Dis*pense", n. [OF. despense, F. dépense.] Expense; profusion; outlay. [Obs.]

It was a vault built for great dispense.

Spenser.

Dis*pens"er (?), n. One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.

Dis*peo"ple (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dispeopled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dispeopling (?).] [Pref. dis- + people: cf. F. dépeupler.] To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate.

Leave the land dispeopled and desolate.

Sir T. More.

A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers.

Milton.

Dis*peo"pler (?), n. One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator. Gay.

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