Definition of spread

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Spread (v. t.) To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail..

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Privilege :: Privilege (n.) See Call, Put, Spread, etc..
Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth..
Scale :: Scale (v. t.) To scatter; to spread.
Tiller :: Tiller (v. i.) To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering..
Flush :: Flush (v. i.) To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face..
Sprawl :: Sprawl (v. i.) To spread and stretch the body or limbs carelessly in a horizontal position; to lie with the limbs stretched out ungracefully.
Pervade :: Pervade (v. t.) To pass or spread through the whole extent of; to be diffused throughout.
Brayer :: Brayer (n.) An implement for braying and spreading ink in hand printing.
Overrun :: Overrun (v. i.) To run, pass, spread, or flow over or by something; to be beyond, or in excess..
Epidemical :: Epidemical (a.) Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic..
Expand :: Expand (v. i.) To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy..
Straw :: Straw (v. t.) To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow..
Limb :: Limb (n.) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade..
Spectrum :: Spectrum (n.) The several colored and other rays of which light is composed, separated by the refraction of a prism or other means, and observed or studied either as spread out on a screen, by direct vision, by photography, or otherwise. See Illust. of Light, and Spectroscope..
Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
Spreadingly :: Spreader (n.) A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.
Aplustre :: Aplustre (n.) An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather..
Spread :: Spreading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprea.
Dishevel :: Dishevel (v. t.) To suffer (the hair) to hang loosely or disorderly; to spread or throw (the hair) in disorder; -- used chiefly in the passive participle.
Dishevel :: Dishevel (v. i.) To be spread in disorder or hang negligently, as the hair..
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