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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Sprawl v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sprawled p. pr. & vb. n. Sprawling.]
 1. To spread and stretch the body or limbs carelessly in a horizontal position; to lie with the limbs stretched out ungracefully.
 2. To spread irregularly, as vines, plants, or trees; to spread ungracefully, as chirography.
 3. To move, when lying down, with awkward extension and motions of the limbs; to scramble in creeping.
    The birds were not fledged; but upon sprawling and struggling to get clear of the flame, down they tumbled.   --L'Estrange.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 sprawled
      adj : spread out irregularly; "sat sprawled in the big armchair";
            "the sprawling suburbs"; "a big sprawly city" [syn: sprawling,
             sprawly]