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Webster 1913 Edition
Spent
Spent
(spĕnt)
, Adj.
1.
Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.
Now thou seest me
Spent
, overpowered, despairing of success. Addison.
Heaps of
spent
arrows fall and strew the ground. Dryden.
2.
(Zool.)
Exhausted of spawn or sperm; – said especially of fishes.
Spent ball
, a ball shot from a firearm, which reaches an object without having sufficient force to penetrate it.