ppl. a. [f. SPREAD v.] Stretched out, extended, expanded.

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1565.  Golding, Ovid’s Met., VII. (1567), 90 b. Hard by vs as it hapt that time, there was an Oken tree With spreaded armes.

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1818.  Keats, 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.

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  † So Spreaden ppl. a. Obs.

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1620.  Quarles, Feast Wormes (1638), 2. Amongst the Hebrewes, where thy spredden fame Fore-runs the welcome of thine honoured name. Ibid. (1629), Argalus & Parthenia, III. Wks. (Grosart), III. 279/2. Her spredden traine did cover His crooper.

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1642.  H. More, Song of Soul, II. i. I. iii. So rais’d upon her spreaden wing, She softly playes, and warbles in the wind.

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