In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SPEND
spend, expend, drop
(verb) pay out; “spend money”
spend
(verb) spend completely; “I spend my pocket money in two days”
spend, pass
(verb) use up a period of time in a specific way; “how are you spending your summer vacation?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
spend (third-person singular simple present spends, present participle spending, simple past and past participle spent)
(ambitransitive) To pay out (money).
To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
(dated) To squander.
To exhaust, to wear out.
To consume, to use up (time).
(dated, ambitransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
(intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
To be diffused; to spread.
(mining) To break ground; to continue working.
Noun
spend (countable and uncountable, plural spends)
Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.
(in the plural) Expenditures; money or pocket money.
Discharged semen.
Vaginal discharge.
Anagrams
• pends
Source: Wiktionary
Spend, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spent; p. pr. & vb. n. Spending.] Etym: [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. Spend thou that in the town. Shak. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread Isa. lv. 2.
2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon. 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.
3. To be diffused; to spread. The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes. Bacon.
4. (Mining)
Definition: To break ground; to continue working.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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