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

To send abroad. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of sending abroad. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Utterance abroad; publicity; vent. You gave it air before me. Dryden.

Lately; of late. [Archaic] There hath been alate such tales spread abroad. Latimer.

an armor composed of small bony plates. The armadillos burrow in the earth, seldom going abroad except at night. When attacked, they curl up into a ball, presenting the armor on all sides. Their flesh is good food. There are several species, one of which (the peba) is found as far north as Texas. See Peba, Poyou, Tato…

One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad. "Blazers of crime." Spenser.

To report; to noise abroad. I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited. Shak.

and the baker of the king of Egypt. Gen. xl. 5. Your wine locked up, your butler strolled abroad. Pope.

, as tales, in an under tone; to spread, as report, by whispers, or secretly. I will buzz abroad such prophecies That Edward shall be fearful of his life. Shak.

Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house. Addison.

arding against evil from every quarter; caution. [Travel] forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.

Shak. England could grow into a posture of being more united at home, and more considered abroad. Sir W. Temple.

up a story; to cook an account. [Colloq.] They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different. Addison.

To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly. All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I 'll speak. Shak. The man . . . ran on,crying, Life! life! Eternal life! Bunyan.

To walk abroad. [Obs.] Cockeram.

A walking abroad; a promenading. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

To carry abroad; to spread; to make public. When the crime is delated or notorious. Jer. Taylor.

Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n.

One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee. He was no gadder abroad, not discontinuer from his convent for a long time. Fuller.