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To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground.

To sprinkle; to scatter. [Obs.] Wyclif (1 Pet. i. 2).

To sprinkle; to scatter. [Obs.] He would sowen some difficulty, Or springen cockle in our cleane corn. Chaucer.

To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc.

To spurt or shoot in a scattering manner. [Obs.] Drayton.

To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

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

To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow. Chaucer.

To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave. And strewed his mangled limbs about the field. Dryden. On a principal table a desk was op…

The act of scattering or spreading.

Anything scattered, as flowers for decoration. [Obs.] Shak.

Containing hornblende in a scattered state; of or relating to rocks containing disseminated hornblende.

e and waste; to exhaust; to consume. Corruption swallowed what the liberal hand Of bounty scattered. Thomson.

the stellate or irregular clusters of intimately united zooids which are imbedded in, or scattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many compound ascidians. Block system, Conservative system, etc. See under Block, Conservative, etc.

To spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle. The smell of grain or tedded grass. Milton. The tedded hay and corn sheaved in one field. Coleridge.

In a thin manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily; not thickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited.

h-water tortoise (Chelopus, or Nanemys, quttatus) having a blackish carapace on which are scattered round yellow spots. -- Tortoise beetle (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of small tortoise-shaped beetles. Many of them have a brilliant metallic luster. the larvæ feed upon the leaves of various plants, and protect…

ty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.

by Padua, found an urn, or earthen pot, in which there was another urn. Bp. Wilkins. His scattered limbs with my dead body burn, And once more join us in the pious urn. Dryden.

A system of philosophy among the Hindoos, founded on scattered texts of the Vedas, and thence termed the "Anta," or end or substance. Balfour (Cyc. of India.)