Word Meanings - DISPARKLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To scatter abroad. Holland.

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• HOLLANDAISE SAUCE; HOLLANDAISE
  A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar.
• HOLLAND
  A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.
• SCATTERLING
  One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.
• SCATTER-BRAIN
  A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
• SCATTERGOOD
  One who wastes; a spendthrift.
• HOLLANDS
  See HOLLAND (more info) 1. Gin made in Holland. 2. pl.
• HOLLANDISH
  Relating to Holland; Dutch.
• HOLLANDER
  1. A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman. 2. A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker. Wagner.
• ABROAD
  1. At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad. The fox roams far abroad. Prior. 2. Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad. I went to St. James',
• SCATTERING
  Going or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.
• SCATTER
  Etym: 1. To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order. And some are scattered all the floor about. Chaucer. Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains,
• SCATTER-BRAINED
  Giddy; thoughtless.
• SCATTERED
  Irregular in position; having no regular order; as, scattered leaves. -- Scat"tered*ly, adv. -- Scat"tered*ness, n. (more info) 1. Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.
• SCATTERINGLY
  In a scattering manner; dispersedly.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• TOSCATTER
  To scatter in pieces; to divide. Chaucer.