Sprinkle
['sprɪŋk(ə)l] or ['sprɪŋkl]
Definition
(noun.) the act of sprinkling or splashing water; 'baptized with a sprinkling of holy water'; 'a sparge of warm water over the malt'.
(verb.) scatter with liquid; wet lightly; 'Sprinkle the lawn'.
(verb.) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force; 'She splashed the water around her'.
(verb.) rain gently; 'It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick'.
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Definition
(v. i.) To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc.
(v. i.) To scatter on; to disperse something over in small drops or particles; to besprinkle; as, to sprinkle the earth with water; to sprinkle a floor with sand.
(v. i.) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
(v. i.) To scatter a liquid, or any fine substance, so that it may fall in particles.
(v. i.) To rain moderately, or with scattered drops falling now and then; as, it sprinkles.
(v. i.) To fly or be scattered in small drops or particles.
(n.) A small quantity scattered, or sparsely distributed; a sprinkling.
(n.) A utensil for sprinkling; a sprinkler.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Scatter, strew.[2]. Bedew, besprinkle.
v. n. Rain (moderately).
Checked by Candy
Definition
v.t. to scatter in small drops or particles: to scatter on: to baptise with a few drops of water: to purify.—v.i. to scatter in drops.—n. an aspersorium or utensil for sprinkling.—ns. Sprin′kle Sprin′kling a small quantity sprinkled: in book-binding the mottling of the edges of trimmed leaves by scattering a few drops of colour on them; Sprin′kler.
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Examples
- You can tell them to sprinkle a little vinegar about the place where he sleeps and to keep it moderately cool and him moderately warm. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I wish first, my dear,' remarked the cherub faintly, 'that you'd have the kindness to sprinkle me with a little milk, for I feel as if I was--Going. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The user was expected to sprinkle the liquid over the fire just as salt is sprinkled from a saltcellar over meat. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I got a drum and went over to the potato farm and sprinkled it on the vines with a pot. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Round the doorway the floor was merely sprinkled with rain, and not saturated, which told her that the door had not long been opened. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- If a wire is passed through a card and a strong current is sent through the wire, iron filings will, when sprinkled upon the card, arrange themselves in definite directions (Fig. 227). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The half-dark waters were sprinkled with lovely bubbles of swaying lights, the launch did not look far off. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Prawns fresh from the sea sprinkled with lime juice. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love, make the flame blaze the brighter. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The user was expected to sprinkle the liquid over the fire just as salt is sprinkled from a saltcellar over meat. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Gramercy for the few drops of thy sprinkling, replied De Bracy; but this damsel hath wept enough to extinguish a beacon-light. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He found Mary in the garden gathering roses and sprinkling the petals on a sheet. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But the sprinkling was a swarm in the Twickenham cottage, and filled it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Clouds are dark flat patches in the grain, of a brownish color, and appear as a sprinkling of dust in a small patch in the interior. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Men who in their youth took part in crusades against the Tenderloin now admit in a crestfallen way that they succeeded merely in sprinkling the Tenderloin through the whole city. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- No sprinkling is required if the sponges are kept moist. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Use by sprinkling, or moistening blotting paper with the solution. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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