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To prank or dress up; to deck fantastically. "And prink their hair with daisies." Cowper.

One who prinks.

To sprinkle over; to scatter over. The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden.

One who, or that which, besprinkles.

The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over.

To scatter on; to disperse something over in small drops or particles; to besprinkle; as, to sprinkle the earth with water; to sprinkle a floor with sand.

One who sprinkles.

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

The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism. Specifically: (Med)

To drench; to besprinkle; to moisten. [Obs.] The blissful dew of heaven does arrose you. Two N. Kins.

To strew or sprinkle with ashes. Howell.

The service or ceremony of sprinkling with holy water.

The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people. [Also written aspergillus.]

To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust. Heywood.

A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense. Behold an immersion, not and aspersion. Jer. Taylor.

A brush for sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.

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

which 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.

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