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Lit., previous admission; specif. (Engin.),

To admonish previously.

Previous warning or admonition; forewarning.

To advertise beforehand; to preannounce publicly.

To tread again.

See Showbread.

Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabba…

To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail. He bought a parcel of a field where he had spread his tent. Gen. xxxiii. 19. Here the Rhone Hath spread himself a couch. Byron.…

a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech. [Colloq.& Humorous]

1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.

One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates.

, adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.

Doctrine or knowledge of the stars; star lore; astrology; astronomy. [Obs.] Which in star-read were wont have best insight. Spenser.

An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon. [Eng.] Crabb.

See Dreadnought, above.

Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, or throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.

The truffle.

Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse. Bp. Burnet.

Having the form of a thread; filiform.

Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes. "A threadbare cope." Chaucer.