Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

72} dispersion; disjunction &c 44; divergence &c 291; aspersion; scattering &c v.; dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution; apportionment &c 786; spread, respersion†, circumfusion†, interspersion, spargefaction†; affusion†. waifs and estrays†, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra [Lat.], [Horace]; waveson†. V. disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember, distribute; apportion &c 786; blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth, draught off; strew, straw, strow†; ted; spirtle†, cast, sprinkle; issue, deal out, retail, utter; resperse†, intersperse; set abroach†, circumfuse†. turn adrift, cast adrift; scatter to the winds; spread like wildfire, disperse themselves. Adj. unassembled &c (assemble) &c 72; dispersed &c v.; sparse, dispread, broadcast, sporadic, widespread; epidemic &c (general) 78; adrift, stray; disheveled, streaming. Adv. sparsim†, here and there, passim.