Dictionary entry

Spread (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.