Verb (used with object) : to disperse a crowd. ,to disperse knowledge. ,The wind dispersed the fog.    From Dictionary.com. 

And grazing cattle have been shown to play a useful role in dispersing various kinds of seeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Way of Beef] Reference

Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov in August first suggested the idea of dispersing snow clouds.    From Wordnik.com.  [RIA Novosti] Reference

Those -- those individual kind of dispersing, waiting for, for a message.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Yugoslav Elections: Protesters Storm the Parliament Building in Belgrade - October 5, 2000] Reference

I realised today (thanks to mynxii) that I had been neglectful in dispersing widely the news that the Ditmar Award nominations are now open. http://www. swancon.com/ditmars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ditmars] Reference

Evergreen is eager to use the 747 for other projects, as well, such as dispersing oil spills.    From Wordnik.com.  [PE Angels Baseball] Reference

Afghanistan and Pakistan, was quoted as saying it needs to been seen whether the Pakistani army is only "dispersing" the terror groups or "destroying" them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference

There was a partial dispersing of the crowd, but many.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference

Saintly guardian of the soul, dispersing mundane evils!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

"I believe they're going away," cried Billy, as he saw the crowd dispersing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference

Hurricanes would be pretty effective at dispersing it and pushing it around.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurricane, Oil Spill Could Be Troubling Mix] Reference

Just at this moment a gleam of sunshine shone out, dispersing the murky haze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

This had the desired effect of clearing the street and of dispersing the rioters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference

Hanson says, "this may just be a natural correction, nature's way of dispersing them.".    From Wordnik.com.  [MISSING: THE PELICAN BRIEF] Reference

That blocked the convoy from dispersing across the desert and escaping further bombing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day We Stopped The War] Reference

"Afghan security forces quickly reacted and cordoned the base, dispersing the mob," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afghan Police Officer Turns on Spanish Troops] Reference

CIA analysts assumed Saddam was dispersing his arsenal in anticipation of allied air strikes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Gulf Cover-Up?] Reference

At last their united efforts prevailed in dispersing this mass who had attacked them with such fury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference

December he commenced his movement, capturing and dispersing the enemy's forces wherever he met them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The reception to the guests over, the cadets were dismissed, and the crowd lost no time in dispersing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean] Reference

This might be partly because dispersing voting over many weeks complicates voter-mobilization efforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Farewell, Election Day] Reference

"" That runs counter to a lot of management theory today about dispersing authority and building trust.    From Wordnik.com.  [City Slickers] Reference

A more widely shared concern about dispersing federal jobs is the impact on the government's productivity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The case for breaking up Washington -- and scattering government across America] Reference

In this wind lay our hope, and scarcely less in the mists, for they might be the means of dispersing the haze.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

A light breeze was beginning to blow from the southwest, dispersing the thin silver mist that overhung the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

Faulty Premise: Your underlying premise is that dispersing government functions would create more support for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlook: Breaking up Washington] Reference

But they were missing an essential piece, possibly a mechanism of some kind for dispersing the radioactive particles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy Of The Threat] Reference

Eszter saw the stone pass like a comet between giant hands, dissolving and dispersing into an extended tear of passion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Being with Thin Girls] Reference

"The objective of the aerial spray operation is to neutralize the oil spill with oil dispersing agents," the article states.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riki Ott: An Open Letter to US EPA, Region 6] Reference

How does dispersing portions of administrative departments ameliorate issues that are directly related to Federal governance?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlook: Breaking up Washington] Reference

"The rain clouds are dispersing," he murmurs, as a stray ray of sunlight wanders through the barn door to mingle its glory with.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

A hungry mob recently attacked U.N. trucks and looted a food warehouse, dispersing only after British troops fired into the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price Of Doing Nothing] Reference

But the warm welcome she received from the children on her return to the Grove, went far towards dispersing these gloomy thoughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma] Reference

The organist starts up a very joyous march at the conclusion of the ceremony, and continues playing while the guests are dispersing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Etiquette of To-day] Reference

In pursuance of the fatal mistake made by dispersing Halleck's forces after the fall of Corinth, General Don Carlos Buell's Army of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

A corps of rangers moved so rapidly, as apparently to double its numbers -- dispersing on the Illinois or Missouri, and reassembling on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference

The musical universe has been dispersing into various genres and sub-genres, making it increasingly rare for songs to cross cultural lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secrets of Songwriters] Reference