sparrow wort

[Eng. sparrow, and -wort.] Bot.: The genus Pa er in a (q. v.). spar-ry, a. [Eng. spar (2), s.; -y.] Resembling spar; consisting of or abounding with spar, spath. ose. "And with the flowers are intermingled stones Sparry and bright, the scatterings of the hills." Words worth: Excursion, bk. vi. sparry-anhydrite, s. [CUBE-SPAR.] sparry iron-ore, s. [SIDERITE.] spăr-ry-gra , s . [SPARROW-GRASS.] sparse, adj. [Lat. spars us, pa. par. of spar go = to scatter, to sprinkle.] 1. Ord . Lang .: Thinly scattered; set, placed, or planted here and there; not close together; not dense. *A. As adj .: Of or belonging to the Sparide. B. As subst.: Any individual of the Sparide. "In our days sparoids are held to be of little value." - Cash , ch. v. Yarrell: Brit . Fishes (ed. 3d), ii. 136. "The congregation was very sparse." - Reade: Hard 2. Bot.: Scattered (q. v.). pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, sparse *sparse, *sperse, v . t . [SPARSE, a.] To scatter, to disperse, to put abroad. "And like a raging flood they sparsed are, And ouerflow each countrey, field and plaine." Fairefax: Godfrey of Boulogne , vi. 1. *sparsed, *spersed, pa . par . or a. [SPARSE, v.] *spar-sěd-ly, adv . [Eng. sparsed; -ly .] In a scattered manner; thinly, sparsely, not densely. "There are doubtle many such soils sparsedly through. out this nation."- Evelyn : Pomona. (Pref.)