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To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes. [R.] Gower.

To sprinkle over; to scatter over. The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden.

To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. [Spelt also bestrow.] Milton.

on. (c) To excite; as, to blow up a contention.(d) To burst, to raise into the air, or to scatter, by an explosion; as, to blow up a fort. (e) To scold violently; as, to blow up a person for some offense. [Colloq.] I have blown him up well -- nobody can say I wink at what he does. G. Eliot. To blow upon. (a) To blast;…

arent stupidity. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, S. piscator, the red-footed booby.

A farm or plantation with its buildings. [U.S.Hist.] The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into "villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the ha…

To open up. to be scattered; t be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking. At length the darkness begins to break. Macawlay.

Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); -- opposed to planting in hills, or rows.

collision. "And heavy brunt of cannon ball." Hudibras. It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our first brunt with some real affair of common life. I. Taylor.

To bilge, as a ship; to founder. And scattered navies bulge on distant shores. Broome.

or; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey.

Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation.

disposed that, any three of them being on the ground, the other projects upward. They are scattered on the ground where an enemy's cavalry are to pass, to impede their progress by endangering the horses' feet.

To burn or scatter incense.

ous culture, and public institutions. The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers. Wordsworth. Sisters of Charity (R. C. Ch.), a sisterhood of religious women engaged in works of mercy, esp. in nursing the sick; -- a popular designation. There are various orders of the…

A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. Volumes without the collector's own reflections. Addison.

uilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.

Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture.

To scatter; to disparkle. [Obs.] Mandeville.

troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service. Troops . . . widely scattered in little detachments. Bancroft.