spare
SPARE, v.t. It seems to be from the same root as L. parco.
1. To use frugally; not to be profuse; not to waste. Thou thy Fathers thunder didst not spare/
2. To save or withhold from any particular use or occupation. He has no bread to spare, that is, to withhold from his necessary uses. All the time he could spare from the necessary cares of his weighty charge, he bestowed on prayer and serving of God.
3. To part with without much inconvenience; to do without. I could have better spard a better man. Nor can we spare you long-
4. To omit; to forbear. We might have spared this toil and expense; Be pleasd your politics to spare.
5. To use tenderly; to treat with pity and forbearance; to forbear to afflict, punish or destroy. Spare us, good Lord. dim sadness did not spare celestial visages. But man alone can whom be conquers spare.
6. Not to take when in ones power; to forbear to destroy; as, to spare the life of a prisoner.
7. To grant; to allow; to indulge. Where anger Jove did never spare one breath of kind and temprate air.
8. TO forbear to inflict of impose. Spare my sight the pain of seeing what a world of tears it cost you.
SPARE, v.i.
1. TO live frugally; to be parsimonious. Who at some times spend, as other spare, divided between carelessness and care.
2. To forbear; to be scrupulous. To pluck and cat my fill I spard not.
3. To be frugal; not to be profuse.
4. To use mercy or forbearance; to forgive to be tender. The king was sparing and compassionate towards hid subjects.
SPARE, a.
1. Seanty; parsimonious; not abundant; as a spare diet. He was spare but discreet of speech. We more generally use, in the latter application, sparing; as, he was sparing of words.
2. That can be dispensed with; not wanted; superfluous. I have no spare time on my hands. If that no spare clothes he had to give.
3. Lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin. O give me your spare men and spare me the great ones.
4. Slow. Not in use.
SPARE, n. Parsimony; frugal use. Not in use.
spared
SPARED, pp. Dispensed with; saved; forborne.
sparely
SPARELY, adv. Sparingly.
spareness
SPARENESS, n. State of being lean or thin; leanness.
sparing
SPARING, ppr.
1. Using frugally; forbearing; omitting to punish or destroy.
2. a. Scarce; little.
3. Scanty; not plentiful; not abundant; as a sparing diet.
4. Saving; parsimonious. Virgil being so very sparing of his words, and leaving so much to be imagined by the reader, can never be translated as he ought in amy modern tongue.
sparingly
SPARINGLY, adv.
1. Not abundantly.
2. Frugally; parsimoniously; not lavishly. High titles of honor were in the kings minority sparingly granted, because dignity then waited on desert. Commend but sparingly whom thou dost love.
3. Abstinently; moderately. Christians are obliged to taste even the innocent pleasures of life but sparingly.
4. Seldom; not frequently. The morality of a grave sentence, affected by Lucan, is more sparingly used by Virgil.
5. Cautiously; tenderly.