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bespread, v.|bɪˈsprɛd|
[ME. bi-, bespred(en, f. bi- be- 4, 1 + spreden to spread v. Cf. MHG. bespreiten.]
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1. To cover, mark, or diversify (a surface) with (things spread over it); to spread with.
c1205Lay. 16521 He..mid ærmen hine bisprædde and forð hine lædde. 1393Gower Conf. III. 364 A see-foule she becam, And with her winges him besprad. c1450Crt. of Love xii, High pinacles..With plate of gold bespred on every side. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. 252 Ther are euident foule blots where with the workes of the holy are bespred. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. ii. 32 The coasts are well bespred with prety townlets. a1764R. Lloyd New-Riv. Head Poet. Wks. (1774) II. 68 Bespread her hospitable board With what she had. 1871Proctor Light Sc. 110 A wide continent bespread with volcanic mountains.
2. Said of things: To spread over, to cover by spreading over.
1641M. Frank Serm. (1672) 253 When our graces..bespread and cloth this earth we carry. 1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 297 Mats bespreading the floor of a large hall. 1832Fraser's Mag. V. 148 The ‘giant graves’ that bespread the shore of the Hellespont.
3. To spread (anything) over or upon (a surface).
1598Yong Diana 207 But with a teint, like the Vermillion Rose, Bespred vpon her face as white as snowe.
4. To spread out.
1557Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 242 With armes bespred abrode. 1646J. Hall Poems 25 Since for thy sake so brisk they're grown And such a Downy carpet have bespred. |