Word Meanings - CLART - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To daub, smear, or spread, as with mud, etc.

• Spread-eagle
  Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
• Spreadingly
  Increasingly.
• SPREADEAGLE
  Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech. [Colloq.& Humorous]
• SPREADEAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.

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