3. To be made known more extensively, as news.
4. To be propagated from one to another; as, the disease spread into all parts of the city. Shak.
SPREAD
Spread, n.
1. Extent; compass. I have got a fine spread of improvable land. Addison.
2. Expansion of parts. No flower hath spread like that of the woodbine. Bacon.
3. A cloth used as a cover for a table or a bed.
4. A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast. [Colloq.]
5. A privilege which one person buys of another, of demanding certain shares of stock at a certain price, or of delivering the same shares of stock at another price, within a time agreed upon. [Broker's Cant]
6. (Geom.)
Defn: An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.