Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
SPENDING
spending, disbursement, disbursal, outlay
(noun) the act of spending or disbursing money
outgo, spending, expenditure, outlay
(noun) money paid out; an amount spent
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
spending (countable and uncountable, plural spendings)
(uncountable) gerund of spend, expenditure.
An amount that has been, or is planned to be spent.
Hyponyms
• double spending
Etymology 2
Verb
spending
present participle of spend
Source: Wiktionary
Spend"ing, n.
Definition: The act of expending; expenditure. Spending money, money set apart for extra (not necessary) personal expenses; pocket money. [Colloq.]
SPEND
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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