adj
Sprawling; covered or filled (with something sprawling).
adv
(archaic) Sticking out, or puffed out; swelling.
v
(Caribbean) To fall and land sprawled
n
Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
n
(informal, derogatory) The practice of men splaying their legs open wide when sitting on public transport, thus occupying more than one seat.
adj
Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
adj
choked or blocked (typically of a river)
v
(transitive) To place in a saggar.
v
To splay (one's arms) away from the body, like the arms of a scarecrow.
v
(US, intransitive) To beg, particularly using the phrase “spare change?”
adj
Synonym of spraddle-legged
n
A shape or motion that splays.
n
(agriculture, veterinary medicine) A disease of pigs in which the legs are splayed because of a myopathy.
v
(slang) To lie flat with hind legs extended.
v
Alternative form of sprauchle [(Scotland, intransitive) To move in a clumsy manner; to stumble or sprawl; to clamber up with difficulty.]
n
A manner of walking with the legs spread out.
adj
that has spraddled legs
v
(transitive) To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep slope, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel.
v
(intransitive) To sprawl or straggle.
n
Someone or something which sprawls; agent noun of sprawl
n
The quality of being sprawly.
adj
(colloquial) sprawling.
n
A position of the body involving full extension of the limbs with both fore- and hind-limbs spread wide, usually referring to humans or heraldic eagles.
adj
Lying with arms and legs outstretched and separated.
adj
Alternative spelling of spread-eagle [Lying with arms and legs outstretched and separated.]
v
(intransitive, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To leap; bound; move quickly; dart
v
(obsolete, chiefly regional) To make quick or convulsive movements; to start, to jump.
v
To form a disorderly sprawl; to spread out irregularly.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To swell out; to strut.
adj
Having sagged or hollow surface.
n
The act of wafting something.
n
The motion of something that welters; a billowing.
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