Verb

To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.

To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.

To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.

To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.

*

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.

To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.

To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.

To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.

To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.

To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.

to spread a table

* Tennyson

Boiled the flesh, and spread the board.

(slang) To open one’s legs.

* 1984 , (Martin Amis), :

This often sounds like the rap of a demented DJ: the way she moves has got to be good news, can't get loose till I feel the juice— suck and spread , bitch, yeah bounce for me baby.

* 1991 , (Tori Amos), (Me and a Gun) :

Yes I wore a slinky red thing. Does that mean I should spread for you, your friends, your father, Mr Ed?

* 2003 , (Outkast), "Spread" (from the album ):

I don't want to move too fast, but / Can't resist your sexy ass / Just spread', ' spread for me; / (I can't, I can't wait to get you home)

Verb

(en verb)

To set free.

(label) To do with birth.

# To give birth.

# To assist in the birth of.

# To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).

#* Gower

She was delivered safe and soon.

(label) To free from or disburden of anything.

* (Henry Peacham) (1578-c.1644)

Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones.

To bring or transport something to its destination.

*

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered .}}

To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.

* Bible, (w) xl. 13

Thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

The constables have delivered her over.

* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

The exalted mind / All sense of woe delivers to the wind.

To express in words, declare, or utter.

*

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 27, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club

, title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992) , passage=It’s a lovely sequence cut too short because the show seems afraid to give itself over to romance and whimsy and wistfulness when it has wedgie jokes to deliver .}}

To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.

* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)

shaking his head and delivering some show of tears

* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

An uninstructed bowler thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straight forward.

To discover; to show.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I'll deliver myself your loyal servant.

(label) To admit; to allow to pass.

(Francis Bacon)