Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MIS-SPEND'
MIS-SPEND', v.t.
- To spend amiss; to waste or consume to no purpose, or to a bad one; as, to misspend time or money; to misspend life. Dryden. Rogers.
- To waste. The genial moisture due / To apples, otherwise misspends itself. Philips.
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