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Spare v.2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2025. Spare v.2 north. and † Sc. Also 5 spayr, 6 spair. [var. of SPAR v.1 Cf. SPEAR v.2

1   Spareð, given as a variant in the Ancr. R. 70, is perh. an error for spereð.]

2   1.  trans. To bar, bolt or secure (a door or gate).

3 1375.  Barbour, Bruce, V. 389. The ȝettis than he gert thame spare, And sat and ete at all lasare.

4 c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, xxvi. (Nicholas), 363. Þocht þe ȝet wes before sparyt, with strinth he enterit In.

5 c. 1450.  St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 5067. He fande þe mynster ȝatis spared; As a wodeman he fared.

6 1583.  Durham Dep. (Surtees), 314. The said Edward doore was spaired all the tyme the said geis was in eatyng.

7 1677.  Nicolson, in Trans. R. Soc. Lit. (1870), IX. 319. Spare the dure, shut to the door.

8 1825.  Brockett, N. C. Gloss., Spare, to shut, to close.

9 1894.  Heslop, Northumbld. Gloss., 674. ‘Spare the yett,’ ‘Spare the door,’ are still in common use.

10   † 2.  To close (the lips or eyes) firmly. Obs.

11 c. 1400.  Rule St. Benet (Verse), 107. And spayr þi lipes, & hald þam still, So þat þay opyn noght with ill!

12 c. 1450.  St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 3847. He spared his eghen and lay still.

13   † 3.  To shut up; to keep out. Obs.

14 c. 1450.  St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 4123. As a man in prisoun sparde.

15 1482.  Monk of Evesham, lv. (Arb.), 107. The crosse … was lettyn done ageyne, and so sparyd other oute that wuld haue commyn in.

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