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being resolved on, the mode of doing it may easily be found. Jer. Taylor. A table richly spread in regal mode. Milton.

in of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Mort cloth, the pall spread over a coffin; black cloth indicative or mourning; funeral hangings. Carlyle. -- Mort stone, a large stone by the wayside on which the bearers rest a coffin. [Eng.] H. Taylor.

grief, esp. clothing or a badge of somber black. The houses to their tops with black were spread, And ev'n the pavements were with mourning hid. Dryden. Deep mourning. See under Deep.

American herb (Seymeria macrophylla) with coarse leaves and yellow tubular flowers with a spreading border. -- Petty mullein, the cowslip. Dr. Prior.

To increase in extent and influence; to spread. The word of God grew and multiplied. Acts xii. 24.

man. Hence, designating the Neanderthal race, or man, a species supposed to have been widespread in paleolithic Europe.

r catch; a snare; any device for catching and holding. A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet. Prov. xxix. 5. In the church's net there are fishes good or bad. Jer. Taylor.

To spread by rumor or report. All these sayings were noised abroad. Luke i. 65.

The act of nodding. So from the midmost the nutation spreads, Round and more round, o'er all the sea of heads. Pope.

To spread; to expand; as, to open the hand.

To lay out; to spread out; to display. [R.] Drayton.

To spread out in array. [Obs.] And now they outray to your fleet. Chapman.

To cover or overspread with clouds; to becloud; to overcast.

To come or pass over; to spreads over. [Obs.] And overcome us like a summer's cloud. Shak.

To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm. The northern nations overflowed all Christendom. Spenser.

To spread gloom over; to make gloomy; to overshadow. [R.] Overgloomed by memories of sorrow. De Quincey.

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 doth overlay. Spenser. Framed of cedar overlaid with gold. Milton. And overlay With this portentous bridge th…

To run over; to grow or spread over in excess; to invade and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass. Those barbarous nations that overran the world. Spenser.

lack of color or luster; wanness. The blood the virgin's cheek forsook; A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look. Pope.

Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.