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"word": "דליל"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "having widely spaced intervals",
"word": "ritka"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "having widely spaced intervals",
"word": "ritkás"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "having widely spaced intervals",
"word": "szórványos"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "having widely spaced intervals",
"word": "sparso"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "having widely spaced intervals",
"word": "spargolo"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "redok",
"sense": "having widely spaced intervals",
"word": "редок"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Church Slavic",
"roman": "rědŭkŭ",
"sense": "having widely spaced intervals",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "рѣдъкъ"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Church Slavic",
"sense": "having widely spaced intervals",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "рије́дак"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Church Slavic",
"sense": "having widely spaced intervals",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "rédak"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Church Slavic",
"sense": "having widely spaced intervals",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "rijédak"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "having widely spaced intervals",
"word": "rzadki"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "having widely spaced intervals",
"word": "esparso"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "having widely spaced intervals",
"word": "disperso"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rédkij",
"sense": "having widely spaced intervals",
"word": "ре́дкий"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "having widely spaced intervals",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "ре́дак"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "having widely spaced intervals",
"word": "riedky"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "having widely spaced intervals",
"word": "disperso"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "having widely spaced intervals",
"word": "gles"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ridkýj",
"sense": "having widely spaced intervals",
"word": "рідки́й"
},
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "yl"
},
{
"code": "as",
"lang": "Assamese",
"roman": "xereṅa",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "সেৰেঙা"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "seyrək"
},
{
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "hirək",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "һирәк"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "clar"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "escàs"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "řídký"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "schaars"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "dun"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "mager"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "harva"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mečxeri",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "მეჩხერი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "txeli",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "თხელი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mc̣iri",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "მწირი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "spärlich"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "dünn"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "gyér"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "harva"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "denn"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "ralo"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "rar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rédkij",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "ре́дкий"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "thưa"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "not dense; meager",
"word": "thưa thớt"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razrežónnyj",
"sense": "having few nonzero elements",
"word": "разрежённый"
}
],
"word": "sparse"
}
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"ref": "1536, [Richard Morison], A Remedy for Sedition, London: […] Thomae Bertheleti […], →OCLC, signature F. i.:",
"text": "They began properly to ſparſe pretye rumours in the North, that no man ſhulde eate whyte breade, no man eate pygge, gooſe, or capon, without he agreed before with the kynge.",
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"To disperse, to scatter."
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"disperse",
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"(obsolete) To disperse, to scatter."
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"tags": [
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}
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