Lexicographical Neighbors of Spraid
Literary usage of Spraid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... E. dial, spraid, to spatter, to sprinkle ; Da. sprede, to scatter, to spread.
The final d is softened down in spray in the same way as in Yi. ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... spraid (Forby), to spatter, to sprinkle. Thus there can be no doubt that spread
comes from the image of spattering liquids ; whether it is connected ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"Sprays or spurs. spraid. To sprinkle, to spatter, to moisten with spray. *Sprat-loon.
The red-throated diver [JHG]. Sprawls. Small twigs, or branches ..."
4. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1833)
"... likewise is a Sea-fish, but as the Basse comes into Rivers to spawn, a Salmon
the first year is a Salmon-smelt ; The second a Mort ; The third a spraid ..."
5. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1822)
"... Whose folds, far spraid, round all things cast Then the great Spirit of the
Past, A light, '• that is not of this world;" And the nipt soul, ..."
6. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"Knobs on wood, as the knots on л stick, &e. West. spraid, (1) t. To sprinkle.
East. (21 part. p. Chopped with cold. Devon. ..."
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