Spare

1. n. 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.
2. a. To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save.
3. a. To keep to one’s self; to forbear to impart or give.
4. a. To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to.
5. a. To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
6. a. To deprive one’s self of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
7. v. i. To be frugal; not to be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
8. v. i. To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
9. v. i. To desist; to stop; to refrain.
10. v. t. Scanty; not abundant or plentiful; as, a spare diet.
11. 1n. 1 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.
12. 1a. 1 To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save.

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.