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with a fuse or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its fragments scattered. See Bomb.

To be occupied with making shocks. Reap well, scatter not, gather clean that is shorn, Bind fast, shock apace. Tusser.

To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in Shak. Cshowers down greatness on his friends. Addison.

le for a cannon, consisting of a shell filled with bullets and a small bursting charge to scatter them at any given point while in flight. See the Note under Case shot.

See Scatch. [Scot.]

n adhesive quality; viscous mud. As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak.

To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow. Donne. Shak.

To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate. "He would sow some difficulty." Chaucer. A sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside. Matt. xiii. 3, 4. And sow dissension in the hearts of brothers. Addi…

To scatter; to disperse; to rout. [Obs.] The king's host was sparbled and chased. Fabyan.

To scatter on or over. [Obs.] Purchas.

One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person. [Obs.]

To scatter; to spread; to disperse. [Obs.]

Thinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together; as, a sparse population. Carlyle.

In a scattered or sparse manner.

Sparsely; scatteredly; here and there.

To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter. That mind must needs be irrecoverably depraved, which, . . . tasting but once of one just deed, spatters at it, and abhors the relish ever after. Milton.

Scattered or ejected spittle.

To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; -- applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour.

To spirt in a scattering manner.

Occuring singly, or apart from other things of the same kind, or in scattered instances; separate; single; as, a sporadic fireball; a sporadic case of disease; a sporadic example of a flower. Sporadic disease (Med.), a disease which occurs in single and scattered cases. See the Note under Endemic, a.…