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Definition of Scatterings
1. scattering [n] - See also: scattering
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scatterings
Literary usage of Scatterings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Session of the National Agricultural (1877)
"He sows two bushels, and will be very apt to leave two bushels on the ground in
harvesting the crop, and so, after deducting seed and scatterings in ..."
2. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1870)
"... then, instead of fussing around, gathering scatterings and fixing things,
place the fork on the top, a foot beyond what was the centre of the windrow, ..."
3. Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the First Psalm: The Penitential Psalms by Richard Baker, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1882)
"We may observe there are divers kinds of scatterings. It is said of a liberal
man that he scatters abroad when he gives to the poor ; 1 and it is said of a ..."
4. The Federal Reporter: With Key-number Annotations by District of Columbia Court of Appeals, United States Commerce Court, Courts of Appeals (1890)
""I have an elastically swinging board for directing scatterings caused by imperfect
adjustment of the reel of the harvester, or any other cause, ..."
5. The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil (1852)
"Some, indeed, do not rake any of the scatterings till after the hay is taken from
the field, and then go over it with a horse-rake. In forming grass cocks, ..."
6. Elementary Meteorology by William Morris Davis (1894)
"The rays of light from the sun cannot reach this portion of the sky without many
turnings and scatterings on the way, so that any light coming back to the ..."