Not close or compact in arrangement or structure. Of handwriting: Not compact, straggling.

Of clothes: Loose-fitting, worn loosely. Of persons: Negligent in attire and deportment. Of handwriting: Not compact; also, careless, not precise…

Of a sprawling character; straggly. Also in combinations.

That sprawls, in senses of the verb. Of handwriting.

Suggestive of the appearance of a spider with long and thin legs.