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well-spread, ppl. a.
1. Widely extended; † spec. of a horse, broad in the rear (obs.).
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. 115 b, If he be brode hanched, & well spred behind, and goeth wide, his pace wilbe the surer. 1592Greene Black Book's Messenger Wks. (Grosart) XI. 18 Hee was a faire large Gelding well spread and forheaded. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 395 An ancient and well spred Family. 1639T. de Grey Compl. Horsem. i. iv. (1656) 37 He must have..large Thighes, round well spread Buttocks. 1676Worlidge Vinetum Brit. 51 Any Fruit on a low well-spread Tree, is better and fairer than that on a tall Tree. 1685Lond. Gaz. No. 2062/4 Lost a black Coach Mare.., well spread behind. 1708Rowe Royal Convert ii. i. 18, I took my usual Way, To seek the Coolness of the well-spread Shade. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. ii. 308 Woods of tall and well-spread trees.
2. Of a surface: Plentifully or elegantly covered with articles spread over it. Of a table: Laid out for a good meal.
1777Potter æschylus, Choeph. 356 The well-spread couch Inviting soft repose. 1784Cowper Task iii. 408 Proud of his well-spread walls. 1825Scott Betrothed viii, A well⁓spread bleaching-field! 1837Lockhart Scott IV. v. 166 The curious neophytes that surrounded the well-spread board. 1854Surtees Handley Cr. xxiv, The pawing of a horse..caused him to look up from his well-spread table. |