spare

Extra.; Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.

• I have no spare time.

Extra.; Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.

• a spare anchor; a spare wheel or tyre

Extra.; Not occupied or in current use.

• We could rent out the spare room.

Not plentiful.; Scant; not abundant or plentiful.

• a spare diet

Not plentiful.; Austere, stripped down, without what is extraneous.

• I’m naked to the bone, With nakedness my shield. Myself is what I wear: I keep the spirit spare.

Not plentiful.; Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.

• He was spare, […]but discreet of speech.

Not plentiful.; Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.

• O, give me the spare men, and spare me the great ones.

Very angry; frustrated or distraught.UKinformal

• When he found out that someone had broken the window, he went spare.
• The poor girl is going spare, stuck in the house all day with the kids like that.

The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.

• men slaine, then without any spare at all they trampled over the dead carkasses

Parsimony; frugal use.

• Pourd out their plenty, without spight or spare:

An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.

That which has not been used or expended.

A spare part.; A spare tire.especially

• I stopped to help out. Do you have a spare? [Said by one motorist to another with a flat tire.]

A spare part.; Any car part or comparable machine part in a supply chain.

• People sometimes forget that world-class logistics also involve inventory management in warehouses full of spares.

A superfluous or second-best person.

• an heir and a spare

The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.

The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.

A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.Canada

• I also remember watching David Letterman's short-lived morning show on TV when I had a spare during my school schedule.

To show mercy, to have mercy on.; To desist; to stop; to refrain.intransitive

To show mercy, to have mercy on.; To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.intransitive

To show mercy, to have mercy on.; To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.transitive

• For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
• Cologne Hauptbahnhof is reached in the small hours, and the traveller new to postwar Germany is spared the sight of the devastated city.

To show mercy, to have mercy on.; To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.specificallytransitive

• Kill me, if you please, or spare me.

To keep.; To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.intransitive

• I, who at some times spend, at others spare, / Divided between carelessness and care.

To keep.; To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.transitive

• Thou that day / Thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare
• He that hath knowledge, spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

To keep.; To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.transitive

• All the time he could spare from the necessary cares of his weighty charge, from assaults, and the naturall refreshing of his body, be bestowed in praier and seruing of God

(to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.transitive

• Where angry Jove did never spare / One breath of kind and temperate air.