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To sprinkle or moisten with dew; to bedew. [Obs.]

Ornamentation by means of lacquer painted or carved, or simply colored, sprinkled with gold or the like; -- said especially of Oriental work of this kind.

A plain sprinkled with trees or underbrush; a glade. [Obs.] In a laund upon an hill of flowers. Chaucer. Through this laund anon the deer will come. Shak.

To sprinkle with, or as with, meal. Shak.

-- Parting pulley. See under Pulley. -- Parting sand (Founding), dry, nonadhesive sand, sprinkled upon the partings of a mold to facilitate the separation. -- Parting strip (Arch.), in a sash window, one of the thin strips of wood let into the pulley stile to keep the sashes apart; also, the thin piece inserted in t…

To spatter; to sprinkle. [R.] "And patter the water about the boat." J. R. Drake.

To sprinkle or season with pepper.

To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter; as, to plash a wall in imitation of granite.

To sprinkle or rub with pounce; as, to pounce paper, or a pattern.

To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair. A circling zone thou seest Powdered with stars. Milton.

Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder.

Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.

To sprinkle; to scatter. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.

To sprinkle or cover with sand.

Covered or sprinkled with sand; sandy; barren. Thomson.

Consisting of, abounding with, or resembling, sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as, a sandy desert, road, or soil.

To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order. And some are scattered all the floor about. Chaucer. Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, Their scattered cottages, and ample plains Dryden. Teach the glad hours to scatter, as they fl…

Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.

To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.