Word Meanings - TOSCATTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To scatter in pieces; to divide. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to TOSCATTER)

• DIVIDER
  An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
• DIVIDEND
  A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
• SCATTERLING
  One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.
• SCATTER-BRAIN
  A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
• DIVIDEDLY
  Separately; in a divided manner.
• DIVIDED
  Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; - - said of a leaf. (more info) 1. Parted; disunited; distributed.
• SCATTERGOOD
  One who wastes; a spendthrift.
• SCATTERING
  Going or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.
• DIVIDE
  To subject to arithmetical division. (more info) cf. Skr. vyadh to pierce; perh. akin to L. vidua widow, and E. widow. 1. To part asunder ; to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts. Divide the living child in
• SCATTER
  Etym: 1. To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order. And some are scattered all the floor about. Chaucer. Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains,
• SCATTER-BRAINED
  Giddy; thoughtless.
• DIVIDENT
  Dividend; share. Foxe.
• SCATTERED
  Irregular in position; having no regular order; as, scattered leaves. -- Scat"tered*ly, adv. -- Scat"tered*ness, n. (more info) 1. Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.
• SCATTERINGLY
  In a scattering manner; dispersedly.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• SUBDIVIDE
  To divide the parts of into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided. The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others. Dryden.
• REDIVIDE
  To divide anew.
• MISDIVIDE
  To divide wrongly.
• APIECES
  In pieces or to pieces. "Being torn apieces." Shak.
• TOSCATTER
  To scatter in pieces; to divide. Chaucer.
• UNDIVIDED
  Not lobed, cleft, or branched; entire. (more info) 1. Not divided; not separated or disunited; unbroken; whole; continuous; as, plains undivided by rivers or mountains. 2. Not set off, as a share in a firm; not made actually separate by division;
• INDIVIDED
  Undivided. Bp. Patrick.