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Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused.

e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.

To grow broad; to become broader or wider. The broadening sun appears. Wordsworth.

Widespread.

Spreading widely.

A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the order Cypreaceæ; the sedges.

A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes. Whewell.

A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.

gather about, as a center. Where there is no visible truth wherein to center, error is as wide as men's fancies. Dr. H. More. Our hopes must center in ourselves alone. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to, or resembling, Cerberus. [Written also Cerberian.] With wide Cerberean mouth. Milton.

y. Fair champaign, with less rivers interveined. Milton. Through Apline vale or champaign wide. Wordsworth.

rms, as of the cabriole and chairbacks, often resemble Queen Anne. In chairs, the seat is widened at the front, and the back toward the top widened and bent backward, except in Chinese Chippendale, in which the backs are usually rectangular. -- Chip"pen*dal*ism (#), n.

A stiff wide cravat; a stock. [Slang]

heathen or Mohammedan lands. The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom. Milton A wide and still widening Christendom. Coleridge.

of the underworld; esp., relating to the underworld gods of the Greeks, whose worship is widely considered as more primitive in form than that of the Olympian gods. The characteristics of chthonian worship are propitiatory and magical rites and generalized or euphemistic names of the deities, which are supposed to hav…

ety; a coterie; a set. As his name gradually became known, the circle of his acquaintance widened. Macaulay.

The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits. A circuit wide inclosed with goodliest trees. Milton.

A natural reservoir; a hollow place containing water. "The wide cisterns of the lakes." Blackmore.

-- Close harmony (Mus.), compact harmony, in which the tones composing each chord are not widely distributed over several octaves. -- Close time, a fixed period during which killing game or catching certain fish is prohibited by law. -- Close vowel (Pron.), a vowel which is pronounced with a diminished aperture of th…

f colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies. The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft.