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- English Word Spray Definition Water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like.
- English Word Spray Definition A jet of fine medicated vapor, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer.
- English Word Spray Definition An instrument for applying such a spray; an atomizer.
- English Word Spray Definition To let fall in the form of spray.
- English Word Spray Definition To throw spray upon; to treat with a liquid in the form of spray; as, to spray a wound, or a surgical instrument, with carbolic acid.
- English Word Sprayboard Definition See Dashboard, n., 2 (b).
- English Word Spread Definition of Spread
- English Word Spread Definition 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.
- English Word Spread Definition To extend so as to cover something; to extend to a great or grater extent in every direction; to cause to fill or cover a wide or wider space.
- English Word Spread Definition To divulge; to publish, as news or fame; to cause to be more extensively known; to disseminate; to make known fully; as, to spread a report; -- often acompanied by abroad.
- English Word Spread Definition To propagate; to cause to affect great numbers; as, to spread a disease.
- English Word Spread Definition To diffuse, as emanations or effluvia; to emit; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance.
- English Word Spread Definition To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground.
- English Word Spread Definition To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table.
- English Word Spread Definition To extend in length and breadth in all directions, or in breadth only; to be extended or stretched; to expand.
- English Word Spread Definition To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty.
- English Word Spread Definition To be made known more extensively, as news.
- English Word Spread Definition To be propagated from one to another; as, the disease spread into all parts of the city.
- English Word Spread Definition Extent; compass.
- English Word Spread Definition Expansion of parts.
- English Word Spread Definition A cloth used as a cover for a table or a bed.
- English Word Spread Definition A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast.
- English Word Spread Definition A privilege which one person buys of another, of demanding certain shares of stock at a certain price, or of delivering the same shares of stock at another price, within a time agreed upon.
- English Word Spread Definition An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
- English Word Spread Definition imp. & p. p. of Spread, v.
- English Word Spread-eagle Definition Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
- English Word Spreader Definition One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates.
- English Word Spreader Definition A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.
- English Word Spreading Definition of Spread
- English Word Spreadingly Definition Increasingly.