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That harmony or moderation which affords rest for the eue; -- opposed to the scattering and division of a subject into too many unconnected parts, and also to anything which is overstrained; as, a painting may want repose. Angle of repose (Physics), the inclination of a plane at which a body placed on the plane would r…

To dispere or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumor.

To sprinkle; to scatter. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

The act of sprinkling or scattering. [Obs.]

e shall be thrown down the Tarpeian Rock With rigorous hands. Shak. We do not connect the scattered phenomena into their rigorous unity. De Quincey.

ustible material inclosed in a metallic case, which is inextinguishable when kindled, and scatters its fire on every side.

The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in. [Western U.S.]

the spleen, produced by amyloid degeneration of the organ, in which a cross section shows scattered gray translucent bodies looking like grains of sago.

essed many-celled woody capsule which, when completely dry, bursts with a loud report and scatters the seeds. See Illust. of Regma. -- Sand bug (Zoöl.), an American anomuran crustacean (Hippa talpoidea) which burrows in sandy seabeaches. It is often used as bait by fishermen. See Illust. under Anomura. -- Sand canal…

sdom; sageness; knowledge. Cowper. Woman, if I might sit beside your feet, And glean your scattered sapience. Tennyson.

One of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs; -- called also sarsen stone, and Druid stone. [Eng.]

To scatter; to spread. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

ng, produced by increase of the neuroglia and atrophy of the true nerve tissue, are found scattered throughout the brain and spinal cord. It is associated with complete or partial paralysis, a peculiar jerking tremor of the muscles, headache, and vertigo, and is usually fatal. Called also multiple, disseminated, or ins…

To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up. Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching. Mortimer.

The principle of production. Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed, Which may the like in coming ages breed. Waller.

A vessel in which a sower carries the seed to be scattered. [Prov. Eng.]

A sower; one who sows or scatters seed. The seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak.

nal meaning. "He speaks sense." Shak. He raves; his words are loose As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense. Dryden.

rformed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate. Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery were, in the last resort, sequestered and detained to enforce the decrees of the court. And now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of ecclesiastics. Blac…

To scatter about. [Obs.] Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Milton.