Word Meanings - BESPRINKLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To sprinkle over; to scatter over. The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden.
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- BESMEAR
To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil. Besmeared with precious balm. Spenser. - REVILEMENT
The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse. Spenser. - BESMEARER
One that besmears. - VILIFY
1. To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace. When themselves they vilified To serve ungoverned appetite. Milton. 2. To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate. I. Taylor. Many passions dispose us to depress and - SPATTER-DOCK
The common yellow water lily . - REVILE
To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language; to reproach. "And did not she herself revile me there" Shak. Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again. 1 Pet. ii. 23. Syn. -- To reproach; vilify; upbraid; calumniate. - ASPERSER
One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another. - BESPRINKLER
One who, or that which, besprinkles. - BESPATTER
1. To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains. 2. To asperse with calumny or reproach. Whom never faction could bespatter. Swift. - BESPRINKLE
To sprinkle over; to scatter over. The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden. - BEDAUB
To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty. Bedaub foul designs with a fair varnish. Barrow. - SPATTERDASHED
Wearing spatterdashes. Thackeray. - REVILER
One who reviles. 1. Cor. vi. 10. - SPATTERDASHES
Coverings for the legs, to protect them from water and mud; long gaiters. - SPATTER
Etym: 1. To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud. Upon any occasion he is to be spattered - ASPERSE
1. To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust. Heywood. 2. To bespatter with foul reports or false and injurious charges; to tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander - ASPERSED
Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface. Cussans. 2. Bespattered; slandered; calumniated. Motley. - BEFOUL
Etym: 1. To make foul; to soil. 2. To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.