v. t.
And some are scattered all the floor about. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains,
Their scattered cottages, and ample plains? Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Teach the glad hours to scatter, as they fly,
Soft quiet, gentle love, and endless joy. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]
Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To be dispersed or dissipated; to disperse or separate;
n. A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
a. Giddy; thoughtless. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
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n. One who wastes; a spendthrift. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Going or falling in various directions; not united or aggregated; divided among many;
n. Act of strewing about; something scattered. South. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a scattering manner; dispersedly. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Scatter + -ling. ] One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. [ Obs. ] “Foreign scatterlings.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]