Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Expense \Ex*pense"\, n. [L. expensa (sc. pecunia), or expensum,
fr. expensus, p. p. of expendere. See {Expend}.]
1. A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
Husband nature's riches from expense. --Shak.
2. That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost;
outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or
damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the
expenses of war; an expense of time.
Courting popularity at his party's expense.
--Brougham.
3. Loss. [Obs.] --Shak.
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight.
--Spenser.
{Expense magazine} (Mil.), a small magazine containing
ammunition for immediate use. --H. L. Scott.