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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.

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

One who, or that which, besprinkles.

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.

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

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

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

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.

To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.

To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.

To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.

Sprinkled over; strewed. His face besprent with liquid crystal shines. Shenstone. The floor with tassels of fir was besprent. Longfellow.

To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to decorate with, or as with, stars; to bestud. "Bestarred with anemones." W. Black.

To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. [Spelt also bestrow.] Milton.

A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.