What is the meaning of SPREAD. Phrases containing SPREAD
See meanings and uses of SPREAD!Slangs & AI meanings
 Three card monte.
 Playing cards. Ex. "Spreading the broads" = playing a game of cards)
Individual who is given a drug early in the day by a dealer and then spreads the word about the drug throughout the rest of the day
a method for keeping partially dried and dried cod-fish from spoiling or developing “dun†when damp weather conditions prevailed tht did not allow for spreading. Salted and drying ish would be unpacked from one pile and replaced into another to kee “dun†and other conditions from harming the fish.
n 1. A magazine center spread, especially a foldout of an oversize photograph or feature. 2. a. The subject of a photograph used as a centerfold, often a nude model. b. A feature, such as an advertisement or calender, inserted as a centerfold.
Spread is old slang for butter. Spread is old slang for a shawl.
codfish, taken out of the vats, barrels or stacks where it has been salted, washed and set to drain, before being spread out to dry in the sun
a framework of longers with two sides and a ridge-pole, for spreading nets to dry
Texas Leg Spreader is slang for Gamma Hydroxy Butyrate.
Alligator Spread is Wall Street slang for a deal where the commissions are equal to, or larger than, the profit.
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a.
Represented as flying, or having the wings spread; as, an eagle volant.
v. t.
To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail.
v. t. & i.
To loose from a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag.
v. t.
To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground.
n.
Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face.
n.
One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates.
v. t.
To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table.
v. t.
To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth.
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v. t.
To propagate; to cause to affect great numbers; as, to spread a disease.
v. i.
To be propagated from one to another; as, the disease spread into all parts of the city.
v. i.
To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty.
a.
Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
v. t.
To divulge; to publish, as news or fame; to cause to be more extensively known; to disseminate; to make known fully; as, to spread a report; -- often acompanied by abroad.
n.
A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast.
n.
A genus of aquatic plants named in honor of Queen Victoria. The Victoria regia is a native of Guiana and Brazil. Its large, spreading leaves are often over five feet in diameter, and have a rim from three to five inches high; its immense rose-white flowers sometimes attain a diameter of nearly two feet.
v. t.
To diffuse, as emanations or effluvia; to emit; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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v. t.
To free from rumples; to spread or lay even,
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