Spread, n. 1. Extent; compass.
I have got a fine spread of improvable land. Addison.
2. Expansion of parts.
No flower hath spread like that of the woodbine. Bacon.
3. A cloth used as a cover for a table or a bed.
4. A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast.
5. A privilege which one person buys of another, of demanding certain shares of stock at a certain price, or of delivering the same shares of stock at another price, within a time agreed upon.
6. (Geom.) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.