Word Meanings - SPLAYFOOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.

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• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• FLATTEN
  To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. To flatten a sail , to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel. -- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders
• SPREAD-EAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
• SPREAD-EAGLE
  Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
• ABNORMALLY
  In an abnormal manner; irregularly. Darwin.
• SPREAD
  spreden, spreen, spreien, G. spreiten, Dan. sprede, Sw. sprida. Cf. 1. 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
• SPREADER
  1. One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates. 2. A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.
• BEDSPREAD
  A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• DISPREAD
  To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.
• OUTSPREAD
  To spread out; to expand; -- usually as a past part. or adj.
• DESPREAD
  See DISPREAD
• BROADSPREADING
  Spreading widely.
• DISPREADER
  One who spreads abroad. Dispreaders both of vice and error. Milton.
• BROADSPREAD
  Widespread.
• OVERSPREAD
  To spread over; to cover; as, the deluge overspread the earth. Chaucer. Those nations of the North Which overspread the world. Drayton.
• WIDESPREAD
  Spread to a great distance; widely extended; extending far and wide; as, widespread wings; a widespread movement.
• BESPREAD
  To spread or cover over. The carpet which bespread His rich pavilion's floor. Glover.