To pay or give out for the satisfaction of need, or the gratification of desire; part with for some use or purpose; expend; lay out: used of money, or anything of exchangeable value.To impart; confer; bestow for any reason; dispense.To consume; use up; make away with; dispose of in using.To pass; employ; while away: used of time, or of matters implying time.To waste or wear out by use or action; incur the loss of. See phrase to spend a mast, below.To exhaust of means, force, strength, contents, or the like; impoverish; enfeeble; only in the passive. See spent.To cause the expenditure of; cost.To pay or layout; make expenditure of money, means, strength, or anything of value.To be lost or wasted; be dissipated or consumed; go to waste: as, the candles spend fast.Specifically, to emit semen, milt, or spawn. See spent, 2.To span; grasp with the hand or fingers.