{ } n. [ AS. æsp, æps; akin to OHG. aspa, Icel. ösp, Dan. æsp, Sw. asp, D. esp, G. espe, äspe, aspe; cf. Lettish apsa, Lith. apuszis. ] (Bot.) One of several species of poplar bearing this name, especially the Populus tremula, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the aspen, or resembling it; made of aspen wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor aspen leaves confess the gentlest breeze. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To spend; to squander. See Dispend. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Some noble men in Spain can despend £50, 000. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & n. See Dispense. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OF. despendre, L. dispendere to weigh out, dispense; dis- + pendere to weigh. See Pension, Spend, and cf. Dispense. ] To spend; to lay out; to expend. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Able to dispend yearly twenty pounds and above. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who dispends or expends; a steward. [ Obs. ] Wyclif (1 Cor. iv. 1). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. dispensabilis. See Dispense. ] 1. Capable of being dispensed or administered. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of being dispensed with. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being dispensable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Dispensaries [ Cf. F. dispensaire. ] 1. A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp., a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dispensatory. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. dispensation, L. dispensatio. ] 1. The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration. [ 1913 Webster ]

To respect the dispensations of Providence. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed; especially (Theol.), A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither are God's methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, exemption from some ecclesiastical law or obligation to God which a man has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.). [ 1913 Webster ]

A dispensation was obtained to enable Dr. Barrow to marry. Ward. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. dispensatif. ] Granting dispensation. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By dispensation. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] A distributer; a dispenser. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the way of dispensation; dispensatively. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dispensatorius relating to management. See Dispense, v. t. ] Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations. “Dispensatory power.” Bp. Rainbow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Dispensatories A book or medicinal formulary containing a systematic description of drugs, and of preparations made from them. It is usually, but not always, distinguished from a pharmacopœia in that it issued by private parties, and not by an official body or by government. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dispensed p. pr. & vb. n. Dispensing. ] [ F. dispenser, L. dispensare, intens. of dispendere. See Dispend. ] 1. To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct. [ 1913 Webster ]

While you dispense the laws, and guide the state. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pay for; to atone for. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His sin was dispensed
With gold, whereof it was compensed. Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To exempt; to excuse; to absolve; -- with from. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was resolved that all members of the House who held commissions, should be dispensed from parliamentary attendance. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To compensate; to make up; to make amends. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

One loving hour
For many years of sorrow can dispense. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give dispensation. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ the pope ] can also dispense in all matters of ecclesiastical law. Addis & Arnold (Cath. Dict. ) [ 1913 Webster ]

To dispense with. (a) To permit the neglect or omission of, as a form, a ceremony, an oath; to suspend the operation of, as a law; to give up, release, or do without, as services, attention, etc.; to forego; to part with. (b) To allow by dispensation; to excuse; to exempt; to grant dispensation to or for. [ Obs. ] “Conniving and dispensing with open and common adultery.” Milton. (c) To break or go back from, as one's word. [ Obs. ] Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dispense dispensation. See Dispense, v. t. ] Dispensation; exemption. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. despense, F. dépense. ] Expense; profusion; outlay. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It was a vault built for great dispense. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. distributed or weighed out in carefully determined portions; as, medicines dispensed to the sick. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Fore + spent. ] Already spent; gone by; past. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Obs. ] See Forspent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. forspendan to consume; pref. for- + spendan to spend. ] Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A gentleman almost forspent with speed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. indispensabilité. ] Indispensableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + dispensable: cf. F. indispensable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely necessary or requisite. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release or exemption. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The law was moral and indispensable. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Unavoidable; inevitable. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an indispensable manner. “Indispensably necessary.” Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t., v. t., etc. See Misspell, Misspend, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Misspense. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Misspent p. pr. & vb. n. Misspending. ] To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to squander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who misspends. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A spending improperly; a wasting. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. of Misspend. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To spend more than. [ PJC ]

2. To spend to exhaustion; to spend more than the limits of; as, he outspent the entire discretionary fund halfway through the year. [ PJC ]

n. Outlay; expenditure. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A mere outspend of savageness. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Suspended by one's self or by itself; balanced. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. despense, F. dépense, buffet, buttery, fr. OF. despendre to spend, distribute, L. dispendere, dispensum. See Dispense, Spend. ] 1. A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry. [ 1913 Webster ]

In . . . his spence, or “pantry” were hung the carcasses of a sheep or ewe, and two cows lately slaughtered. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bluff Harry broke into the spence,
And turned the cowls adrift. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The inner apartment of a country house; also, the place where the family sit and eat. [ Scot. ] Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. despensier. See Spence, and cf. Dispenser. ] One who has the care of the spence, or buttery. [ Obs. ] Promptorium Parvulorum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the third Earl Spencer, who first wore it, or brought it into fashion. ] A short jacket worn by men and by women. Ld. Lutton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [ 1802 ]. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spencer mast, a small mast just abaft the foremast or mainmast, for hoisting the spencer. R. H. Dana, Jr. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Spent p. pr. & vb. n. Spending. ] [ AS. spendan (in comp.), fr. L. expendere or dispendere to weigh out, to expend, dispense. See Pendant, and cf. Dispend, Expend, Spence, Spencer. ] 1. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spend thou that in the town. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? Isa. lv. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

I . . . am never loath
To spend my judgment. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad. [ 1913 Webster ]

We spend our years as a tale that is told. Ps. xc. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be diffused; to spread. [ 1913 Webster ]

The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mining) To break ground; to continue working. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of expending; expenditure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spending money, money set apart for extra (not necessary) personal expenses; pocket money. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ]

A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Prodigal; extravagant; wasteful. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Spendthrift; prodigal. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem “The Faërie Queene.” [ 1913 Webster ]