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ˈspreaded, ppl. a.
[f. spread v.]
Stretched out, extended, expanded.
1565Golding tr. Ovid's Metam. vii. (1567) 90 b, Hard by vs as it hapt that time, there was an Oken tree With spreaded armes. 1818Keats Endym. i. 867 With wings outraught, And spreaded tail. Ibid. iii. 389 Like a new fledg'd bird that first doth show His spreaded feathers to the morrow chill.
† So ˈspreaden ppl. a. Obs.
1620Quarles Feast Wormes (1638) 2 Amongst the Hebrewes, where thy spredden fame Fore-runs the welcome of thine honoured name. 1629― Argalus & Parthenia iii. Wks. (Grosart) III. 279/2 Her spredden traine did cover His crooper. 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. i. i. iii, So rais'd upon her spreaden wing, She softly playes, and warbles in the wind. |