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and v. An obsolete spelling of widow1. wide wide (wid), a. and n. [ Wide is the gate. that leadeth to destruction. Mat. vii. 13. Shallow brooks, and rivers wide . Milton , L'Allegro, 1. 76. And wounds appear'd so wide as if the grave did gape To swallow both at once. Drayton, Polyolbion, i. 456. 2. Having (a certain or specified) extension as measured from side to side; having (a specified) width or breadth: as, cloth a yard wide. 'Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough. Shak., R. and J., iii. 1. 100. The city of Canea, capital of the western province of Candia, is situated at the east corner of a bay about fifteen miles wide . Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 242. 3. Of great horizontal extent; spacious; extensive; vast; great: as, the wide ocean. Comli castelles and couth and cuntres wide . William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5053. For nothing this wide universe I call Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all. Shak ., Sonnets, cix. These perpetual exploits abroad won him wide fame. Milton , Hist. Eng., ii. Within the cave He left me, giant Polyp he me's dark cave; A dungeon wide and horrible. States have always been best governed by men who have taken a wide view of public affairs, and who have rather a general acquaintance with many sciences than a perfect Macaulay , A then i an Orators. mastery of one. 5. Capacious; bulging; loose; voluminous. I hadde wonder of his wordes and of his wydd clothes; For in his bosome he bar a thyng that he bli ed euere. Piers Plowman (B), xvi. 253. Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in. Shak., M. N. D., ii. 1. 256. 6. Distended; expanded; spread apart; hence, IMG:content-2364.png:[blocks in formation] Tennyson, Morte d'Arthur. IMG:content-2365.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To a distance; afar; widely; a long way; drill so shaped as to form a hole of greater abroad; extensively. Ihc habbe walke wide Bi the se side. King Horn (E. E. T. S.), p. 27. The wounded coveys, reeling, scatter wide . Burns , Briggs of Ayr. Let Fame from brazen lips blow wide Her chosen names. Whittier , My Namesake. 2. Away or to one side of the mark, aim, purpose, or direct line; hence, astray. Nay, Cosyn, there walke you somewhat wide , for ther you defende your owne righte for your temporal aualye. Sir T. More, Works (ed. 1557), II. 1151. She him obayd, and turnd a little wyde. Spenser, F. Q., I. xi. 5. I understand you not; you hurt not me, Your anger flies so wide . Beau . and Fl . , Captain, ii. 2. His arrows fell exceedingly wide of each other. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 130. 31. Round about; in the neighborhood around. Old Melibæ is slaine; and him beside His aged wife, with many others wide . Spenser, F. Q., VI. xi. 18. Set wide. See setl. - To run wide. See run1. widet (wid), v . t. [ widen ; wide , a .] Το make wide; spread or set far apart. And wide hem [quinces] so that though the wynd hem shake, Noo droop of oon until an other take. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 94. wide-awake (wid'a-wak"), a . and n. I. a. On the alert; keen; sharp; knowing. [Colloq.] Our governor 's wide awake , he is; I'll never say nothin' agin him nor no man, but he knows what's o'clock, he does, uncommon. Dickens , Sketches, Tales, x. 2. II. n. A soft felt hat: a name given about. 1850. She was one of the first who appeared in the Park in a low-crowned hat - a wide - awake . H. Kingsley, Raven shoe, xliii. Some one... would with pleasure exchange on the spot irreproachable black coat and glistening hat for a shabby shooting-jacket and a wide - awake with a cast of flies round it. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLIII. 627. wide-awakene (wid'a-wak"nes), n. The character or state of being wide-awake or sharp. [Colloq.] wide-chapped (wid'chapt), a. Having a wide mouth; wide-mouthed. The wide - chapp'd rascal. diameter than itself: same as broach, 12. widene (wid'nes), n. [ This Temple is 64 Cubytes of wydene e , and als man ye in leng the. Mandeville , Travels, p. 84. wide-spread (wid's pred), a. Diffused or spread to a great distance; extending far and wide; being general. To stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a larger view of the wide - spread and infinitely diversified constitution of men and affairs in a large society. Brougham . There was a very wide - spread desire to hear him, and applications for lectures flowed in from all parts of the kingdom. O. W. Holmes, Emerson, vii. wide-stretched (wid's trecht), a. Large; extensive. Wide-stretched honours that pertain... Unto the crown of France. Shak., Hen. V., ii. 4. 82. wide-watered (wid'wâ"tėrd), a . Traversed or bordered by wide waters. I hear the far-off curfeu sound, Over some wide - water'd shore, Swinging low with sullen roar. Milton, Il Penseroso, 1. 75. As when a lion rushing from his den Amidst the plain of some wide - water'd fen. Pope , Iliad, xv. 761. wide-wheret (wid'hwar), adv . [ wydenwher ); Wide-where is wist How that ther is diver site requered Bytwexen thynges lyke, as I have lered. Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 404. Her dochter was stown awa frae her; She sought for her wide -whare. Rosmer Hafmand (Child's Ballads, I. 253). In coal-mining, a wide-work (wid'werk), n. method of working coal, now nearly obsolete, but formerly rly followed in the South Yorkshire coal-fields. It was one of the many varieties of pillar-and-stall work. widgeon,