Sentence:  When a person of high rank is destined for the victim, an emissary is dispatched to set the story <WSD>abroach</WSD> at some obscure coffee-house in the city, whence it speedily marches to its head quarters near the court: 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  In a state to be diffused or propagated. (First attested in the early 16th century.)<ref name=SOED/>