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Word Meanings - STREW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

to Ofries. strewa, OS. strewian, D. strooijen, G. streuen, OHG. strewen, Icel. stra, Sw. strö, Dan. ströe, Goth. straujan, L. 1. To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable

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to Ofries. strewa, OS. strewian, D. strooijen, G. streuen, OHG. strewen, Icel. stra, Sw. strö, Dan. ströe, Goth. straujan, L. 1. 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 strew seed in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave. And strewed his mangled limbs about the field. Dryden. On a principal table a desk was open and many papers strewn about. Beaconsfield. 2. To cover more or less thickly by scattering something over or upon; to cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered; as, they strewed the ground with leaves; leaves strewed the ground. The snow which does the top of Pindus strew. Spenser. Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain Pope. 3. To spread abroad; to disseminate. She may strew dangerous conjectures. Shak.

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  • SPREADINGLY
    , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
  • SQUANDER
    scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely;
  • STREWN
    p. p. of Strew.
  • DISPERSED
    Scattered. -- Dis*pers"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pers"ed*ness, n. Dispersed harmony , harmony in which the tones composing the chord are widely separated, as by an octave or more.
  • SPREAD-EAGLED
    1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
  • DISSIPATED
    1. Squandered; scattered. "Dissipated wealth." Johnson. 2. Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate. A life irregular and dissipated. Johnson.
  • SPREAD-EAGLE
    Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
  • SCATTERLING
    One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.
  • STREWING
    1. The act of scattering or spreading. 2. Anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in the plural. Shak.
  • SCATTER-BRAIN
    A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
  • DISPERSE
    1. To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations. The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. Prov. xv. 7. Two lions, in the still, dark night, A herd of
  • SCATTERING
    Going or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.
  • PROPAGATE
    akin to propages, propago, a layer of a plant, slip, shoot. See Pro-, 1. To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species
  • SCATTERGOOD
    One who wastes; a spendthrift.
  • SQUANDERER
    One who squanders.
  • STREWMENT
    Anything scattered, as flowers for decoration. Shak.
  • SPRINKLER
    1. One who sprinkles. 2. An instrument or vessel used in sprinkling; specifically, a watering pot.
  • DISPERSER
    One that disperses.
  • DISSEMINATED
    Occurring in small portions scattered through some other substance.
  • DISSIPATE
    1. To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. Dissipated those foggy mists of error. Selden. I soon dissipated his fears. Cook. The extreme
  • BESCATTER
    1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
  • BEDSPREAD
    A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
  • DISPREAD
    To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.
  • OUTSPREAD
    To spread out; to expand; -- usually as a past part. or adj.
  • INDISPERSED
    Not dispersed.
  • BESPRINKLER
    One who, or that which, besprinkles.

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