outspreadingly

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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.