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To sprinkle with a liquid 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.

Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle. Knight.

To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles. It had been spitting with rain. Dickens. To spit on or upon, to insult grossly; to treat with contempt. "Spitting upon all antiquity." South.

To sprinkle; to scatter. [Obs.] Wyclif (1 Pet. i. 2).

p. p. of Sprenge. Sprinkled. All the ground with purple blood was sprent. Spenser.

p. p. of Sprenge. Sprinkled. When spreynd was holy water. Chaucer.

To sprinkle; to scatter. [Obs.] He would sowen some difficulty, Or springen cockle in our cleane corn. Chaucer.

The act of one who, or that which, sprinkles. Baptism may well enough be performed by sprinkling or effusion of water. Ayliffe.

n the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulæ. His eyen twinkled in his head aright, As do the stars in the frosty night. Chaucer.

es bearing powerful stinging organs. -- Sting ray. (Zoöl.) See under 6th Ray. -- Sting winkle (Zoöl.), a spinose marine univalve shell of the genus Murex, as the European species (Murex erinaceus). See Illust. of Murex.

missile. He at Philippi kept His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck The lean and wrinkled Cassius. Shak.

To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with. "When I sugar my liquor." G. Eliot.

To sound or ring, as a bell; to tinkle. [R.] Holland.

To make a sharp, shrill noise; to tinkle. Wyclif (1 Cor. xiii. 1).

A tinkle, or succession of tinkles. Drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Gray.

A kind of fungus with an irregularly wrinkled, somewhat globular pileus (Helvella, or Gyromitra, esculenta.).

To twinkle. [Obs.]

The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle. Holland.

Which maids will twire 'tween their fingers. B. Jonson. I saw the wench that twired and twinkled at thee. Beau. & Fl.

To smooth away the puckers or wrinkles of.