abroad (the following are the chief uses)
1.
outside
certain limits: (a) away or apart from one's own
body or person
2H6 III. ii. 172
“His hands abroad
display'd,”
Cym. I. ii. 4, III. iv. 180, Compl. 137,
183
“All my offences that
abroad you see”
; (b) away from one's home, out of one's
house, in foreign lands Tp. III. i.
52, Cæs. V. iii. 95,
Ham. I. i. 161
“then . . . no spirit
can walk abroad.”
2.
about in the world,
in public Meas. III. ii. 90,
LLL. I. i. 187
“There's villany
abroad,”
Rom. V. iii. 190, Oth. I. iii.
393.
