The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dispread \Dis*pread"\, v. i. To extend or expand itself. [R.]
While tyrant Heat, dispreading through the sky.
--Thomson.
Dispread \Dis*pread"\, v. t. [Pref. dis- + spread.]
To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to
open; as, the sun dispreads his beams.
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
vb. (context archaic rare English) To spread out, to extend.
WordNet
v. spread abroad or out; "The sun dispread its beams"
Usage examples of "dispread".
And above all the fever and convulsion of the maggoty main, the livid clouds dispread their slow decay, their many fissures bloody-rimmed with the demon light that streamed from them, while everywhere their bloated substance was sloughing off to lie in clammy heaps upon the waves, like those we now began to thread among.
All the plain and all its stony sky, revealed to us in crazy, shaken glimpses, dispread around us its vile grandeur.
The terrain dispread before us might be called city here and there, where domes and ragged steeples seethed with tiny-distant shapes in turmoil.
To the conglomerate and trachyte succeeded black basalt, the first dispread in layers full of bubbles, the latter forming regular prisms, placed like a colonnade supporting the spring of the immense vault, an admirable specimen of natural architecture.