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109 words match “PRINK”

BEDABBLE v.
To dabble; to sprinkle or wet. Shak.
BEDROP v.
To sprinkle, as with drops. The yellow carp, in scales bedropped with gold. Pope.
BEDUST v.
To sprinkle, soil, or cover with dust. Sherwood.
BEFLOWER v.
To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers. Hobbes.
BEPOWDER v.
To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.
BESPANGLE v.
To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.
BESPATTER v.
To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.
BESPRENT p.
Sprinkled over; strewed. His face besprent with liquid crystal shines. Shenstone. The floor with tassels of fir was besprent. Longfellow.
BESTAR v.
To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to decorate with, or as with, stars; to bestud. "Bestarred with anemones." W. Black.
BESTREW v.
To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. [Spelt also bestrow.] Milton.
BLOODSTONE n.
A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.
BRINE v.
To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay.
CATAPASM n.
A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc. Dunglison.
CONISTRA n.
lestra, or gymnasium among the Greeks; either the place where sand was stored for use in sprinkling the wrestlers, or the wrestling ground itself. Hence, a part of the orchestra of the Greek theater.
CONSPERSION n.
The act of sprinkling. [Obs.] The conspersion washing the doorposts. Jer. Taylor.
CORN v.
To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue.
DABBLE v.
To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet. "Bright hair dabbled in blood." Shak.
DISPERGE v.
To sprinkle. [Obs.]
DISPERPLE v.
To scatter; to sprinkle. [Obs.] Odorous water was Disperpled lightly on my head and neck. Chapman.
DISPONGE v.
To sprinkle, as with water from a sponge. [Poetic & Rare] [Written also dispunge.] O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me. Shak.
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