Sc. [Of obscure origin.] intr. To spring, leap, dash.
1533. Bellenden, Livy, I. xviii. (S.T.S.), I. 106. [She] draif þe chariot oure hir faderis body, with sic violence þat … þe blude of hir faderis body spendit on hir face.
1808. Jamieson, Spend, to spring.
1839. Moir, Mansie Wauch (ed. 2), xxii. 275. Holding the naig’s head, in case it should spend off, and capsize the concern.
