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keep or feed together or are herded together, ( , ); In<br />

the end we had a cozy space, and the flock was asleep within ten minutes. —<br />

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment;<br />

• (floe)- a sheet of floating ice, chiefly on the surface of the sea, smaller<br />

than an ice field, ( ); Their ships might be caught<br />

between ice-floes, and the falling snow would blind and bewilder them. —<br />

Days of the Discoverers;<br />

• (throng)- a multitude of people crowded or assembled together; crowd,<br />

( ; ); What a throng, as they crowded into the presence of Pilate.<br />

— Fifteen Years With The Outcast;<br />

• (bevy)- a group of birds, as larks or quail, or animals, as roebuck, in close<br />

association, ( ; ; [ ] ); When the wind is from the<br />

sea, it is like a bevy of witches shrilling my doom down the chimney. — A<br />

Village of Vagabonds;<br />

• a large group or collection;<br />

• (levy)- to impose or collect (a tax, for example);<br />

scatter, permeable<br />

dissipate = sprinkle = dispel = scatter = strew = disseminate = diffuse<br />

{permeate} = disband = disperse : sparse<br />

• (dissipate)- to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel, (<br />

);These hopes were soon dissipated, and a treaty of peace was finally<br />

signed at Paris, September 23, 1783. — The Land We Live In The Story of Our<br />

Country;<br />

• (sprinkle)- to scatter in drops or particles; There came up a little shower,<br />

hardly more than a sprinkle, but then It was so nice to have a shower just as<br />

they reached the box-elder tree by the spring! — The Hoosier Schoolmaster;<br />

• (dispel)- to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate, ( );<br />

One myth that you seem to partially dispel is the '60s adage, "To get a good<br />

job, get a good education.";<br />

• to cause to vanish; alleviate, ( );<br />

• (strew)- to let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface; scatter or<br />

sprinkle, ( ); Strew, strew: more Garlonds and<br />

more Flowres. — A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2;<br />

• (disseminate)- to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed;

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