adj. including or occurring in all parts of a city;
adj. involving the entire continent. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
adj. extending throughout a country or nation as a whole;
adj. including or occurring in all parts of a county;
v. t. To widen. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
The chambers and the stables weren wyde. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
Wide is the gate . . . that leadeth to destruction. Matt. vii. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]
For sceptered cynics earth were far too wide a den. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]
When the wide bloom, on earth that lies,
Seems of a brighter world than ours. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]
Men of strongest head and widest culture. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]
The contrary being so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]
It is far wide that the people have such judgments. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]
How wide is all this long pretense ! Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]
Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
I was but two bows wide. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Wide is often prefixed to words, esp. to participles and participial adjectives, to form self-explaining compounds; as, wide-beaming, wide-branched, wide-chopped, wide-echoing, wide-extended, wide-mouthed, wide-spread, wide-spreading, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]
Far and wide.
Wide gauge.
adv. [ As. wīde. ]
[ I ] went wyde in this world, wonders to hear. Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
a. (Photog. & Optics) Having or covering an angle wider than the ordinary; -- applied to certain lenses of relatively short focus. Lenses for ordinary purposes have an angle of 50° or less. Wide-angle lenses may cover as much as 100° and are useful for photographing at short range, but the pictures appear distorted. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
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n. A broad-brimmed, low-crowned felt hat. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Fully awake; not drowsy or dull; hence, knowing; keen; alert. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.) The angler; -- called also
adv.
v. t.
v. i. To grow wide or wider; to enlarge; to spread; to extend. [ 1913 Webster ]
Arches widen, and long aisles extend. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
a. Spread to a great distance; widely extended; extending far and wide;
adv. [ See Wide, and Where. ] Widely; far and wide. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Extended throughout the world;
n. The collective total of all computer installations that are connected to the internet and provide access to other computers connected to the internet, using hypertext transfer protocol, to computer files called