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adjective

Sparse adj. (compar. sparser; superl. sparsest)

Thinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together; as, a sparse population.

(Bot.) Placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like.

verb

Sparse v. t. To scatter; to disperse. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Sparse'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... with bright sunshine. They had delayed longer than they had intended to in making their start and already most of the other prospective contestants had concluded testing their engines or giving a final look over to brace wires and turn-buckles. A sparse sprinkling of spectators from the village was already on the grounds, early as was ...

— The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest • Captain Wilbur Lawton

... flight—like the queen bee she had soared once into the farthest, bluest reaches of her heaven, and henceforth she was quite content to relapse into the utter commonplaces of the hive. Her yellow hair grew sparse and flat and streaked with gray, her pink-rose face became over plump and mottled across the nose, and her mind turned soon as flat and unelastic as her body; but she was perfectly satisfied with the portion ...

— The Wheel of Life • Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

... woman with thin, sparse, gold-glinting hair, with face pallid and rounded, with broad forehead and gray eyes of remarkable clarity. She was slim, dressed in a little brown coat and a short brown skirt. She came forward, trembling, as if overcome by the ...

— The Nine-Tenths • James Oppenheim

... an interminable distance, as it seemed to Mamie, until finally they stood upon the brink of a huge canon, with a snowy mountain range in the distance beyond, and in the intervening space, a vast panorama of granite mountain sides, almost white,—here and there covered with a sparse growth of timber. The waters from these mountain reaches had cut a channel for themselves known as Little Yosemite Valley, where pour the two wonderful cataracts known as Nevada Falls and Vernal Falls. Their deep roar came up from the valley. Mamie felt that she would be content to watch that scene ...

— Forty-one Thieves - A Tale of California • Angelo Hall

... Tzer are less abrupt than those on the north and descend gradually into the Leschnitza Valley, out of which rise the lesser heights of the Iverak Mountains. Both these ranges are largely covered by prune orchards, intersected with some sparse timber. ...

— The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various

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