Meaning of spready | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Tending to spread horizontally.
2. Having a large surface area in proportion to its weight.
3. Having a tendency to spread more easily.

Examples

“1602, William Basse, Three Pastoral Elegies of Anander, Anetor, and Muridella, Elegie II, in R. Warwick Bond (editor), The Poetical Works of William Basse, London: Ellis & Elvey, 1893, p. 49, The spready Beech, and dangling Sycomores Were clad in tender leaves and shady shiver,”

“The walls are covered with good Massimos, and the spready tapestry-coloured canvas of Lucas Giordaino and Solimene.”

“I should use⟳ very thick worsted and make⟳ very big, loopy, spready stitches.”

“Things about my place⟳ were more spready than high, myself; my house, the sheep-dogs, and Dolf, the Persian cat, whose silver fleece parted down the centre of his back and fluffed wide. Even my apple trees and lilacs grew spready.”

“1912, Hides and Skins: From the Animal’s Back to the Tannery Door, Chicago: Shoe and Leather Weekly, “The Hid and Skin Trade⟳ in Great Britain,” p. 132, A fine spready hide⟳ is also obtained from the Hereford breed⟳, these being favored by harness and belting makers.”

“These bacteria form⟳ large, spready colonies.”

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