SPENCE, spens, _n._ (_prov._) a place where provisions are kept: a larder:
a pantry.--Also SPENSE. [O. Fr. _despense_, a buttery--_despendre_--L.
_dispend[)e]re_.]
SPENCER, spens'[.e]r, _n._ a short over-jacket worn by men or women, named
after Earl _Spencer_ (1782-1845).
SPENCER, spens'[.e]r, _n._ (in ships and barques) a fore-and-aft sail abaft
the fore and main masts.
SPENCERIAN, spen-s[=e]'ri-an, _adj._ pertaining to the philosophy of
Herbert _Spencer_ (b. 1820).--_n._ a follower of Spencer.--_n._
SPENC[=E]'RIANISM, the system of evolutionary cosmology propounded by
Herbert Spencer--the so-called synthetic philosophy.
SPEND, spend, _v.t._ to expend or weigh out: to give for any purpose: to
consume: to waste: to pass, as time.--_v.i._ to make expense: to be lost,
wasted, or dissipated: to emit milt, semen, &c.:--_pr.p._ spend'ing;
_pa.t._ and _pa.p._ spent.--_adj._ SPEN'DABLE, that may be spent.--_ns._
SPEND'ALL, a spendthrift; SPEN'DER; SPEN'DING; SPENSE=_Spence_
(q.v.).--_adj._ SPENT, exhausted: impotent: of fish, exhausted by spawning.
[A.S. _spendan_--L. _expend[)e]re_ or _dispend[)e]re_, to weigh out.]
SPENDTHRIFT, spend'thrift, _n._ one who spends the savings of thrift: a
prodigal.--_adj._ excessively lavish. [_Spend_ and _thrift_.]
SPENSERIAN, spen-s[=e]'ri-an, _adj._ pertaining to Edmund _Spenser_
(1552-1599) or his versification, esp. his stanza in _The Faerie Queene_, a
strophe of eight decasyllabic lines and an Alexandrine, having three
rhymes, the 1st and 3d, the 2d, 4th, 5th, and 7th, and the 6th, 8th, and
9th.
SPENT, spent, _pa.t._ and _pa.p._ of spend.