Word Meanings - MISSPENSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A spending improperly; a wasting. Barrow.

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• WASTING
  Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• WAST
  The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• SPENDER
  One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• SPENDTHRIFTY
  Spendthrift; prodigal.
• WASTAGE
  Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
• WASTE
  the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w, D. woest, 1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into
• WASTEFUL
  1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful
• WASTREL
  1. Any waste thing or substance; as: Waste land or common land. Carew. A profligate. A neglected child; a street Arab. 2. Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc.
• SPEND
  to expend, dispense. See Pendant, and cf. Dispend, Expend, Spence, 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
• BARROWIST
  A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.
• WASTER
  1. One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal. He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9. Sconces are great wasters
• WASTEWEIR
  An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.
• WASTEBOOK
  A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.
• WASTOR
  A waster; a thief. Chaucer. Southey.
• SPENDING
  The act of expending; expenditure. Spending money, money set apart for extra personal expenses; pocket money.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• DESPEND
  To spend; to squander. See Dispend. Some noble men in Spain can despend Howell.
• SWASTIKA; SWASTICA
  A symbol or ornament in the form of a Greek cross with the ends of the arms at right angles all in the same direction, and each prolonged to the height of the parallel arm of the cross. A great many modified forms exist, ogee and volute as well
• MISSPEND
  To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips.
• FOREWASTE
  See GASCOIGNE
• DISPEND
  To spend; to lay out; to expend. Spenser. Able to dispend yearly twenty pounds and above. Fuller. (more info) dispense; dis- + pendere to weigh. See Pension, Spend, and cf.
• HANDBARROW
  A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.
• MISSPENDER
  One who misspends.