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Word Meanings - UNFURL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To loose from a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag.

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  • SPREADINGLY
    , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
  • PUBLISH
    Etym: 1. To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict. Published was the bounty of her name. Chaucer. The unwearied sun, from day to day,
  • PUBLISHER
    One who publishes; as, a publisher of a book or magazine. For love of you, not hate unto my friend, Hath made me publisher of this pretense. Shak.
  • EXPAND
    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. Dryden.
  • UNFURL
    To loose from a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag.
  • EXTENDLESSNESS
    Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
  • DIFFUSED
    Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n.
  • EXTENDANT
    Displaced. Ogilvie.
  • 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.
  • EXTEND
    To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter , a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height. Note: This is extended
  • SPREAD-EAGLE
    Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
  • EXTENDIBLE
    Liable to be taken by a writ of extent. (more info) 1. Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.
  • SCATTERLING
    One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.
  • EXPANDER
    Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
  • DIFFUSER
    One who, or that which, diffuses.
  • SCATTER-BRAIN
    A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
  • STRETCHING
    from Stretch, v. Stretching course , a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton.
  • OVERLAYING
    A superficial covering; a coating.
  • DIFFUSE
    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 disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information. Thence diffuse His good to worlds and
  • BESCATTER
    1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
  • REPUBLISH
    To publish anew; specifically, to publish in one country (a work first published in another); also, to revive by re Subsecquent to the purchase or contract, the devisor republished his will. Blackstone.
  • OVERLAY
    To put an overlay on. (more info) 1. To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon. When any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it. Sir W. Raleigh. As when a cloud his beams
  • 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.

 

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