To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to ma…
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To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
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To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to ma…
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To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords frui…
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To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
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To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
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To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
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To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
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To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
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To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
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To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income.
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To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
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To be complacent toward; to give way to; not to oppose or restrain
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To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.
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To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance.
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To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money.
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To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents.
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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…
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To turnanother way; to divert.
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To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.
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Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…
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A pit.
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The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
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The herb sage, or salvia.
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To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save.
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To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
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To scatter; to disperse.
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A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.
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A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.
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To spend less than.
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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…
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Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.
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Wore.
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Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
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The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…
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To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
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To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
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One who disburses money.
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One who disburses money.
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The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.
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The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.
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Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.
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Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.
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To go beyond; to exceed in swiftness; to surpass; to outdo.
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To go beyond; to exceed in swiftness; to surpass; to outdo.
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To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
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To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
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The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…
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To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
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To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…
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