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feating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete. thy army . . . Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly. Daniel. To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those. pope.

To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander. [R.] I do faws on men and hug them hard And after scandal them. Shak.

ections; to reduce from a close or compact to a loose or broken order; to dissipate; to disperse. Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths. Shak.

Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.

In a scattering manner; dispersedly.

An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria. Rockstro.

Indians who occupied Western New York and part of Ohio, but were driven away and widely dispersed by the Iroquois.

To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover. [R.] "Her hair . . . is shed with gray." B. Jonson.

To cast reflections on; to asperse. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Crose.

To scatter; to disperse; to rout. [Obs.] The king's host was sparbled and chased. Fabyan.

To disperse. [Obs.] The Landgrave hath sparkled his army without any further enterprise. State Papers.

To scatter; to spread; to disperse. [Obs.]

To scatter; to disperse. [Obs.] Spenser.

To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse. My virgin life no spotted thoughts shall stain. Sir P. Sidney. If ever I shall close these eyes but once, May I live spotted for my perjury. Beau. & Fl. To spot timber, to cut or chip it, in preparation for hewing.

To scatter on; to disperse something over in small drops or particles; to besprinkle; as, to sprinkle the earth with water; to sprinkle a floor with sand.

To scatter; to disperse. [Obs.] Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden.

To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals.

To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals. "Straggling pistol shots." Sir W. Scott. They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks. Sir W. Raleigh.

ied, or occupied with an invisible fluid only; emptiness; void; vacuum. A vacuity is interspersed among the particles of matter. Bentley. God . . . alone can answer all our longings and fill every vacuity of our soul. Rogers.

ntrically arranged. Divided into two subclasses: Angiosperms, having the woody fiber interspersed with dotted or annular ducts, and the seed contained in a true ovary; Gymnosperms, having few or no ducts in the woody fiber, and the seeds naked. 2. Monocotyledons (called also Endogens). -- Seeds with single cotyledon.…