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Spotted with whitish specks due to a disease, or produced artificially by spraying; -- said of tobacco used for cigar wrappers.

nder long-continued pressure at a very high heat, and then to a violent chilling, as by a spray of cold water. This process gives an armor plate a thick surface of extreme hardness supported by material gradually decreasing in hardness to the unaltered soft steel at the back.

s, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do. [Birds] hopping from spray to spray. Dryden.

oil engines, using either an atomized spray or the vapor (produced by heat) of a comparatively heavy oil, as petroleum or kerosene. In all of these the gas is mixed with a definite amount of air, the charge is composed in the cylinder and is then exploded either by a flame of gas (flame ignition -- now little used), by…

To reduce (as a liquid) to a fine spray or vapor; to atomize.

To spray (tobacco) with a liquid intended to produce flavor or aroma.

An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.

of a type resembling the Diesel engine in using as fuel heavy oil which is injected in a spray just before the end of the compression stroke and is fired without electrical ignition. The fuel is sprayed into an iron box (called a hot bulb or hot pot) opening into the combustion chamber, and heated for ignition by a bl…

Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift.

Small branches of a tree; twigs; sprays. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley.

Light driven spray. [Eng.]