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A swamp or low tract of land inundated with water and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida. [U. S.]

A moderate current of air; a breeze. A little gale will soon disperse that cloud. Shak. And winds of gentlest gale Arabian odors fanned From their soft wings. Milton.

An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. There interspersed in lawns and opening glades. Pope.

See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic. Close harmony, Dispersed harmony, etc. See under Close, Dispersed, etc. -- Harmony of the spheres. See Music of the spheres, under Music.

To dash between or among; to intersperse. Cowper.

The act of interspersing, or the state of being interspersed.

a). -- Jerusalem thorn (Bot.), a spiny, leguminous tree (Parkinsonia aculeata), widely dispersed in warm countries, and used for hedges. -- The New Jerusalem, Heaven; the Celestial City.

To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse. To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling. South.

l centuries, had more or less control of the government of Egypt, until exterminated or dispersed by Mehemet Ali in 1811.

To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away. Shak.

A widely dispersed genus of shrubs and trees, usually with aromatic foliage. It includes the bayberry or wax myrtle, the sweet gale, and the North American sweet fern, so called.

ace having a forehearth. -- Open harmony (Mus.), harmony the tones of which are widely dispersed, or separated by wide intervals. -- Open hawse (Naut.), a hawse in which the cables are parallel or slightly divergent. Cf. Foul hawse, under Hawse. -- Open hearth (Metal.), the shallow hearth of a reverberatory furnace.…

To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Open; expanded; slightly spreading; having the parts loose or dispersed; as, a patulous calyx; a patulous cluster of flowers. The eyes are large and patulous. Sir J. Hill.

. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth.

Mingled or interspersed with poppies. "Poppied corn." Keats.

To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.

Thinly scattered; dispersed. Those rare and solitary, three in flocks. Milton.

That which has power to disperse inflammatory or other tumors; a discutient; anything which aids the absorption of effused products. Coxe.

Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse. Give my roan a drench. Shak.