ppl. a. [f. as prec.] Saved up, reserved; not wasted or destroyed, etc.
1580. G. Harvey, Three Lett., 40. And my poore Muse hath spent hir spared store, Yet little good hath got.
1623. Wodroephe (title), The spared houres of a Souldier in his travels.
1657. S. Purchas, Pol. Flying-Ins., 189. They breed … most commonly in Meadows, and spared layes, or else in a hole in the ground.
1874. W. Bruce, Hebrew Odes, 41. The spared remnant of His host.
1894. H. Nisbet, Bush Girl’s Rom., 194. The only spared man of that camp darted towards the bush.
