See Also: agromania(medicine)
spread(dictionary)
Mob spread(money)
spread(1)(dictionary)
Spread(medicine)
NOB spread(money)
Box spread(money)
Gut spread(finance)
Spread(finance)
Box spread(finance)

spread-eagle (iou) and agromania (medicine)


spread-eagle (iou)



spread-eagle verb. E19.
[formed as SPREAD verb.]
verb intrans. Skating. Perform a spread eagle. E19.
verb trans. Stretch out, hold, or secure in the position of a spread eagle, orig. esp. for punishment. Also, spread or splay apart, scatter; esp. (Cricket) knock down (the wicket). Freq. as spread-eagled ppl adjective. E19.
E. Waugh A dead child, like a broken doll, spreadeagled in the deserted roadway. New Yorker A detective..spread-eagled Garreau against the wall.
verb trans. Defeat utterly, esp. in horse-racing. M19.
verb intrans. Speak or act in a grandiloquent or loudly patriotic way. Chiefly US. M19.

agromania (medicine)


agromania
<psychiatry> An obsolete term for a morbid impulse to live in the open country or in solitude.

Origin: G. Agros, field, + mania, frenzy