Having widely spaced intervals.
a sparse array, index, or matrix
Not dense; meager; scanty
Having few nonzero elements
To disperse, to scatter.
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.
Borrowed from Latin sparsus.
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