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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.

The sparrow hawk. [Prov. Eng.]

Spare; saving; frugal; merciful. Bacon. -- Spar"ing*ly, adv. -- Spar"ing*ness, n.

ited substance which is emitted by a body in combustion. Man is born unto trouble, as hte sparks fly upward. Job v. 7.

A self-induction coil used to increase the spark in an electric gas-lighting apparatus.

The space filled with air or other dielectric between high potential terminals (as of an electrostatic machine, induction coil, or condenser), through which the discharge passes; the air gap of a jump spark.

gneto circuit on the outside, and forms, with another terminal on the base of the plug, a spark gap inside the cylinder.

A spark arrester.

Lively; brisk; gay. [Obs.] "Our sparkful youth." Camden.

Like a spark; airy; gay. W. Walsh.

A little spark; a scintillation. As fire is wont to quicken and go From a sparkle sprungen amiss, Till a city brent up is. Chaucer. The shock was sufficiently strong to strike out some sparkles of his fiery temper. Prescott.

One who, or that which, sparkles.

A small spark. [Obs.]

Vivacity. [Obs.] Aubrey.

Emitting sparks; glittering; flashing; brilliant; lively; as, sparkling wine; sparkling eyes. -- Spar"kling*ly, adv. -- Spar"kling*ness, n.

The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).

The calf of the leg. [Obs.] Wyclif (Deut. xxviii. 35).

of or pertaining to the Sparidæ, a family of spinous-finned fishes which includes the scup, sheepshead, and sea bream. -- n.