spreading board (spred ing bord)

Same as setting - board. spreading-frame (spred'ing-frām), n. In spin ning, a machine for spreading slivers of flax and leading them to the drawing-rollers. Е. H. Knight. spreading-furnace (spred'ing-fernās), n. In gla - manuf., a flattening-furnace, in which the split cylinders of blown gla are flattened out. The hearth of this furnace is called the spread ing-plate. spreadingly (spred'ing-li), adv. In a spreading or extending manner. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton , Reformation in Eng., i. spreading-machine (spred'ing-ma-shēn"), n. In cotton- manuf . , a batting and cleaning machine for forming loose cotton into a continuous band ready for the carder. Compare scutcher. IMG:content-1845.png:[blocks in formation] = = Dan. sprænge , sprinkle, burst, OHG. MHG. G. sprengen , cause to burst), causal of spring an , etc., spring, burst: see spring ; cf. bespreng.] I. trans. 1. To scatter in drops or minute particles; strew about; diffuse. Gamelyn sprengeth holy water with an oken spire. Tale of Gamelyn (Lansdowne MS.), 1. 503. A fewe fraknes in his face yspreynd . Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1311. 2. To sprinkle; overspread with drops, parti- sprent is still in use as an archaism.] cles, spots, or the like. [The past participle Sprengeth on [you] mid hali water. Ancren Riwle , p. 16. Otherwhere the snowy substaunce sprent With vermell. Spenser, F. Q., II. xii. 45. The cheek grown thin, the brown hair sprent with grey. M. Arnold, Thyrsis. II. in trans. 1. To leap; spring. To the chambyr dore he sprente, And claspid it with barres twoo. MS . Harl . 2252, f. 109. ( Hall i well .) The blode sprente owtte and sprede as the horse spryngez. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2062. 2. To rise; dawn. spreading-oven (spred'ing-uv"n), n. In gla - manuf . , a spreading or flattening-furnace. spreading-plate (spred'ing-plāt), n. In gla - Sprengel pump. See mercury air - pump , under mercury. sheet. See flattening - furnace, spreading - furnace, cylinder - gla .