Dispense

1. n. Expense; profusion; outlay.
2. v. t. To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines.
3. v. t. To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
4. v. t. To pay for; to atone for.
5. v. t. To exempt; to excuse; to absolve; — with from.
6. v. i. To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
7. v. i. To give dispensation.
8. v. t. Dispensation; exemption.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.