bespend

== English == === Etymology === From be- (“on, over, about”) +‎ spend. === Verb === bespend (third-person singular simple present bespends, present participle bespending, simple past and past participle bespent) (transitive) To expend; bestow; employ. 1932, California Poets: An Anthology of 244 Contemporaries - Page 606: Over their sleep, convalescent of old woes, The native, barren grandeur of the wind, Schooled of the granite, salt, and sea, bespends A roaming testimony to their thoughts While tons of heavy waves oppress cold rocks.