Spread \Spread\, n.
   1. Extent; compass.
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            I have got a fine spread of improvable land.
                                                  --Addison.
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   2. Expansion of parts.
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            No flower hath spread like that of the woodbine.
                                                  --Bacon.
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   3. A cloth used as a cover for a table or a bed.
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   4. A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an
      entertainment of food; a feast. [Colloq.]
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   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. [Brokers' Cant]
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   6. (Geom.) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
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   7. (Finance) An arbitrage transaction operated by buying and
      selling simultaneously in two separate markets, as Chicago
      and New York, when there is an abnormal difference in
      price between the two markets. It is called a

   back spreadwhen the difference in price is less than the
      normal one.
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   8. (Gems) Surface in proportion to the depth of a cut stone.
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