outspreadingly
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
outspreading + -ly
Adverb[edit]
outspreadingly (comparative more outspreadingly, superlative most outspreadingly)
- In a way that outspreads.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- The mast-heads, like the tops of tall palms, were outspreadingly tufted with arms and legs.