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A brush for sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.

To try tasting, as food or drink. [Obs.]

certainty. Let us draw with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. Heb. x. 22.

Wanting drink; thirsty.

A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.

by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called balderdash. Taylor (Drink and Welcome).

A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.

hich he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.

One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.

Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression.

A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor. Brown bastard is your only drink. Shak.

To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.

A trinket. See Bauble.

A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.

a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy. The beastly vice of drinking to excess. Swift.

onstructed (with joints or otherwise) that the wearer could raise or lower it to eat and drink.

To dabble; to sprinkle or wet. Shak.

To sprinkle, as with drops. The yellow carp, in scales bedropped with gold. Pope.

To sprinkle, soil, or cover with dust. Sherwood.

To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers. Hobbes.