[f. SPEND v.1] That spends, in various senses of the verb.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, III. xxiv. (Arb.), 298. It is decent to be … in houshold expence pinching and sparing, in publicke entertainement spending and pompous.
1639. J. Clarke, Parœmiologia, 261. A sparing father, and a spending son.
1674. Flavel, Husb. Spiritualized, xvii. 147. If this were not so…. All the self-denial, spending duties, and sharp sufferings of the people of God, would turn to their damage. Ibid. (1681), Meth. Grace, ix. 203. Soul troubles are spending and wasting troubles.
1885. Times, 6 Aug., 6/1. I am an industrious man; I am not a spending man.
