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To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. The tangled water courses slept, Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow. Tennyson. To be shot of, to be discharged, cleared, or rid of. [Colloq.] "Are you not glad to be shot of him" Sir W. Scott.

To sprinkle; to moisten by sprinkling; as, to sparge paper.

The act of sprinkling. [Obs.] Swift.

A vessel with a perforated cover, for sprinkling with a liquid; a sprinkler.

or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud. Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people. Burke.

s zest or pungency; a slight flavoring; a relish; hence, a small quantity or admixture; a sprinkling; as, a spice of mischief. So much of the will, with a spice of the willful. Coleridge.

A small quantity scattered, or sparsely distributed; a sprinkling.

An instrument or vessel used in sprinkling; specifically, a watering pot.

le of painting on plastered walls or stone, in which the colors are rendered permanent by sprinklings of water, in which is mixed a proportion of soluble glass (a silicate of soda).

A cart carrying water; esp., one carrying water for sale, or for sprinkling streets, gardens, etc.

valry soldiers to assemble for the purpose of watering their horses. -- Watering cart, a sprinkling cart. See Water. -- Watering place. (a) A place where water may be obtained, as for a ship, for cattle, etc. (b) A place where there are springs of medicinal water, or a place by the sea, or by some large body of water…

A vessel for holding or conveying water, or for sprinkling water on cloth, plants, etc.