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in breadth only; to be extended or stretched; to expand. Plants, if they spread much, are seldom tall. Bacon. Govrnor Winthrop, and his associates at Charlestown, had for a church a large, spreading tree. B. Trumbull.

nonsense. Collier. Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric. Selden.

of powers with less strain and less ostentation. Landor. Credit is gained by custom, and seldom recovers a strain. Sir W. Temple.

Discourse; fluency of speech or expression. Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. L. Estrange.

Tutoress. [Obs.] Selden.

a slight inclination. These letters were used as early as the 1st century b. c., and were seldom used after the 10th century a. d., being superseded by the cursive style.

Rarely visited; seldom or never resorted to by human beings; as, an unfrequented place or forest. Addison.

Any outer covering; array; garb. Not seldom clothed in radiant vest Deceitfully goes forth the morn. Wordsworth.

ng sympathetically with the strings, yield a peculiarly soft and silvery sound. It is now seldom used.

ison. In reading an account of a battle, we follow the hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect on the vulgar heaps of slaughter. Rambler.

ottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes, instead of hundreds. [Written also wapentac.] Selden. Blackstone.

n. [R.] A horse that is not well wayed; he starts at every bird that flies out the hedge. Selden.

A gimlet. " It is but like the little wimble, to let in the greater auger." Selden.