Word Meanings - BESPRINKLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over.

SPRINKLING
1. The act of one who, or that which, sprinkles. Baptism may well enough be performed by sprinkling or effusion of water. Ayliffe. 2. A small quantity falling in distinct drops or particles; as, a sprinkling of rain or snow. 3. Hence, a moderate
ANYTHINGARIAN
One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
SPRINKLER
1. One who sprinkles. 2. An instrument or vessel used in sprinkling; specifically, a watering pot.
SPRINKLE
scatter, AS. sprengan, properly, to make to spring, causative of springan to spring; akin to D. sprenkelen to sprinkle, G. sprengen. 1. To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc. 2. To scatter on; to disperse something over in
ANYTHING
1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G.
BESPRINKLER
One who, or that which, besprinkles.
BESPRINKLE
To sprinkle over; to scatter over. The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden.
BESPRINKLING
The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over.