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A sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only; -- called also broadsheet.

Widespread.

Spreading widely.

A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. I heard the broadsword's deadly clang. Sir W. Scott.

Breadthwise. [Archaic]

At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad. The fox roams far abroad. Prior.

To send abroad. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of sending abroad. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.

tagonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. E. Everett.

Utterance abroad; publicity; vent. You gave it air before me. Dryden.

Lately; of late. [Archaic] There hath been alate such tales spread abroad. Latimer.

ge carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South Ame…

A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad.

A fish (Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.

gles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in England; a person of English descent in its broadest sense.

A broad dagger formerly worn at the girdle. [Written also anelace.]

The science of the human species as to geographical distribution and environment. Broadly, it includes industrial, commercial, and political geography, and that part of ethnology which deals with distribution and physical environment. -- An`thro*po*ge*og"ra*pher (#), n. -- An`thro*po*ge`o*graph"ic*al (#), a.…

Having a round, broad face, like an apple. "Apple-faced children." Dickens.

Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with many islands or with a group of islands.