scatterer

The poet might himself be an endangered species, like the ortolan, as well as a generous "grain-scatterer" like the corn-bunting.

Poem of the week: A Trace of Wings by Edwin Morgan 2010

Corn Bunting             shy but perky; haunts fields; grain-scatterer

Poem of the week: A Trace of Wings by Edwin Morgan 2010

From watching the traffic on the blog, I think that band saturated CO2 probably is a good scatterer, and the scattering probably gets greater as the bandwidth increases.

Unthreaded #12 « Climate Audit 2007

I developed an exact, linear algebraic theory that includes any number and type of anomalous scatterer and any number of wavelengths.

Jerome Karle - Autobiography 1986

Wait, O Bhima, for the return of our better days, like the scatterer of seeds waiting for the harvest.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

Wait, O Bhima, for the return of our better days, like the scatterer of seeds waiting for the harvest.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

"Up to Joyce's," Billy Falstar, that indefatigable gatherer and scatterer of news, announced, "they are smashing a hole in the off side of the house."

Joyce of the North Woods

Further, that Paul, the globe trotter, and a scatterer of words, who was calling people from things terrestrial to things celestial, you were unwilling to receive.

Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897

_It is not alone the poet who is capable of creating his legend, but any one who refuses to be subject to the whims of fate and to serve the goddess of chance and chaos, "the prodigal scatterer of episodes"

The Created Legend Fyodor [pseud.] Sologub 1895

Yet, when we turn to Catholicism, we are bidden to see in it not a gatherer but a scatterer, not the daughter of peace but the mother of disunion.

Paradoxes of Catholicism Robert Hugh Benson 1892