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Having the quality of diffusing; capable of spreading every way by flowing; spreading widely; widely reaching; copious; diffuse. "A plentiful and diffusive perfume." Hare.

To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions. His heart dilates and glories in his strength. Addison.

Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages.

One who, or that which, widens or expands.

Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. "Discursive notices." De Quincey. The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. Hazlitt. A man rather tacit than discursive. Carlyle.

A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.

"ed*ness, n. Dispersed harmony (Mus.), harmony in which the tones composing the chord are widely separated, as by an octave or more.

To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread. The northern wind his wings did broad display. Spenser.

Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so widely distant from Christianity.

Diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging.

A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.

nd Wapiti. Irish elk (Paleon.), a large, extinct, Quaternary deer (Cervus giganteus) with widely spreading antlers. Its remains have been found beneath the peat of swamps in Ireland and England. See Illustration in Appendix; also Illustration of Antler. -- Cape elk (Zoöl.), the eland.

To lodge or rest in a bower. [Poetic] "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser.

Embracing the whole circle of learning, or a wide range of subjects.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; embracing a wide range of subjects.

Diffusiveness of speech or writing; expatiation; a wide range of discourse or argument. An enlargement upon the vices and corruptions that were got into the army. Clarendon.

at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic.

hemence or emphasis, as in the following lines: - Alone, alone, all all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea. Coleridge.

e tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith. it to the sea was often by long and wide estuaries. Dana.

A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug; esp., one used to hold water for the toilet. Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands. Shak.