Spread: alternatives and connections

A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

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A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

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To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to di…

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To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to di…

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To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.

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To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.

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To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, opinions, and err…

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To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, opinions, and err…

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To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or she…

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To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or she…

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of Distribute

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Made fit or suitable; adapted; ready; as, prepared food; prepared questions.

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Made fit or suitable; adapted; ready; as, prepared food; prepared questions.

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The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…

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Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

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Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed.

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To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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Something used to give relish to food, and to gratify the taste; a pungment and appetizing substance, as pepper or mustard; seasoning.

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To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

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To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence; dissimilitude; -- followed by between, in, of, as to, etc.; as, disparity in, or of, y…

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The act or process of scattering or dispersing, or the state of being scattered or separated; as, the Jews in their dispersion retained their rites a…

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To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…

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To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate am…

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To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

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The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expa…

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The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products.

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A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse.

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Gone.

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A part; a fragment; a portion.

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in Engl…

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The act of taking food.

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To labor; to travail.

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To reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught.

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An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeare…

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To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.

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A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.

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To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

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To pour round; to spread round.

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To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl.

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To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy;…

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To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to di…

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To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.

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To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits s…

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To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.

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To carry away; to remove.

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To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.

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Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.

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A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.

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A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.

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To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.

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abbreviation of Amuck.

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To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.

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To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy.

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To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or she…

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To distribute again.

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To sew. See Sew.

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To display; to spread.

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To spread and stretch the body or limbs carelessly in a horizontal position; to lie with the limbs stretched out ungracefully.

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To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the…

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To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.

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To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to str…

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To pass over or beyond; to surpass.

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To make vulgar, or common.

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The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.

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The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture.

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The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized.

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The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity;…

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The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion.

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The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion.

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The act or process of scattering or dispersing, or the state of being scattered or separated; as, the Jews in their dispersion retained their rites a…

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The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas…

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That portion of the soil formed by the decomposition of animal or vegetable matter. It is a valuable constituent of soils.

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The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.

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Act of irradiating, or state of being irradiated.

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A fatty substance, extracted from animal fats and certain vegetable oils, formerly supposed to be a definite compound of glycerin and margaric acid,…

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Border; margin; edge; verge.

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A liquid oil made from animal fats (esp. beef fat) by separating the greater portion of the solid fat or stearin, by crystallization. It is mainly a…

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See Patte.

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The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated; emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness.

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To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.

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of Strew

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To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate am…

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The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate am…

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A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware.

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A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware.

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To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or she…

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To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or she…

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To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.

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To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.

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One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates.

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One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates.

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To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulg…

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To labor; to travail.

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To labor; to travail.

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A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.

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A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.

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A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

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To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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A coverlet for a bed, -- originally stitched or woven in squares or figures.

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To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to di…

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To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.

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To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, opinions, and err…

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To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.

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An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or…

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Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over;…

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To spread out; to expand; -- usually as a past part. / adj.

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A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware.

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To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or she…

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To wrench; to tear; to sprain; to injure by violent straining or contortion.

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To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.

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To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth.

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