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To draw or take out a thread from; as, to unthread a needle.

To tread back; to retrace. Shak.

The common dooryard plantain (Plantago major).

Of extensive reading; deeply versed; -- often followed by in.

Spread to a great distance; widely extended; extending far and wide; as, widespread wings; a widespread movement.

A primer for teaching the alphabet and first elements of reading. [Obs.]

To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.

At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad. The fox roams far abroad. Prior.

s of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief. An abstract of every treatise he had read. Watts. Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled. Ford.

Ready to accept. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers. Kent.

d the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.

Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour. Faraday.

Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.

Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidæ), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniæ when irritated.

from mere existence or state. Active capital, Active wealth, money, or property that may readily be converted into money.

at trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasa…

To prepare or make ready. [Obs.] His foe was soon addressed. Spenser. Turnus addressed his men to single fight. Dryden. The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming. Jer. Taylor.

Put in dread; afraid. [Obs.] Chaucer.

in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply. "Adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant." Horsley.…