Word Meanings - BESPRINKLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over.
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- 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.