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A little spark; a scintillation. As fire is wont to quicken and go From a sparkle sprungen amiss, Till a city brent up is. Chaucer. The shock was sufficiently strong to strike out some sparkles of his fiery temper. Prescott.

One who, or that which, sparkles.

A small spark. [Obs.]

Vivacity. [Obs.] Aubrey.

Emitting sparks; glittering; flashing; brilliant; lively; as, sparkling wine; sparkling eyes. -- Spar"kling*ly, adv. -- Spar"kling*ness, n.

diment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture. J. H. Parker.

Added; additional. Parkhurst.

mbine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air. His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aërated natural fountains. Carlyle.

A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way. I know each lane and every alley green. Milton.

es, came down amain. Milton. That striping giant, ill-bred and scoffing, shouts amain. T. Parker.

ft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. Parker.

ion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.

ld lesson; Time approves it true. Byron. His account . . . approves him a man of thought. Parkman.

The science of artillery or gunnery. Campbell. Artillery park, or Park of artillery. (a) A collective body of siege or field artillery, including the guns, and the carriages, ammunition, appurtenances, equipments, and persons necessary for working them. (b) The place where the artillery is encamped or collected. -- Ar…

vein (Mining), a sort of iron ore, found in loose masses of a globular form, containing sparkling particles. -- Three balls, or Three golden balls, a pawnbroker's sign or shop.

An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak. Parker.

Like a beau; characteristic of a beau; foppish; fine. "A beauish young spark." Byrom.

Gleam; glimmer; sparkle. Sir W. Scott. Not a blink of light was there. Wordsworth.

A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake. Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty Shak. It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood. Thackeray.

A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes.