Spent \Spent\ (sp[e^]nt), a.
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. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |