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Sporadic.

In a sporadic manner.

p. p. of Spread. Chaucer.

imp. of Spread. Chaucer.

leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of; as, to straddle a fence or a horse.

Applied to spokes when they are arranged alternately in two circles in the hub. See Straddle, v. i., and Straddle, v. t., 3. Knight.

Of, or relating to, the measuring of streets or roads. [R.]

gth of any living creature, in those external motion, is something distinct from, and superadded unto, its natural gravity. Bp. Wilkins. The peacock laid it extremely to heart that he had not the nightingale's voice superadded to the beauty of his plumes. L'Estrange.

something extraneous; also, something which is added in excess or extraneously. This superaddition is nothing but fat. Arbuthnot.

oming in addition to, or in assistance of, something. [R.] He has done bravely by the superadvenient assistance of his God. Dr. H. More.

More than decompound; divided many times.

A valuable kind of wood obtained on the shores of the Demerara River in South America, much used for timbers, rails, naves and fellies of wheels, and the like.

Something added or appended, as to a name. [Obs.] Shak.

A tribe of edentates comprising the sloths. They are noted for the slowness of their movements when on the ground. See Sloth, 3.

Of or pertaining to the Tardigrada.

Moving slowly; slow-paced. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A tetravalent or quadrivalent atom or radical; as, carbon is a tetrad.

Tetradactylous.

Having, or characterized by, four digits to the foot or hand.

A light oily hydrocarbon, C14H30, of the marsh-gas series; -- so called from the fourteen carbon atoms in the molecule.