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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 sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over.

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

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.]

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.

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.

alestra, or gymnasium among the Greeks; either the place where sand was stored for use in sprinkling the wrestlers, or the wrestling ground itself. Hence, a part of the orchestra of the Greek theater.

The act of sprinkling. [Obs.] The conspersion washing the doorposts. Jer. Taylor.

g box. (a) Same as 2d Dredger. (b) (Gun.) A copper box with a perforated lid; -- used for sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses. Farrow.

A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box.

The act of sprinkling. [Obs.] Chapman.

The dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc.

ough perforated designs, -- used by embroiderers, lace makers, etc. Pounce box, a box for sprinkling pounce. -- Pounce paper, a transparent paper for tracing.

A box with a perforated lid, for sprinkling pounce, or for holding perfumes. Shak.

The act of sprinkling or scattering. [Obs.]

The act of sprinkling, impregnating, or furnishing, with salt.

pparatus used in the process. -- Sand box. (a) A box with a perforated top or cover, for sprinkling paper with sand. (b) A box carried on locomotives, from which sand runs on the rails in front of the driving wheel, to prevent slipping. -- Sand-box tree (Bot.), a tropical American tree (Hura crepitans). Its fruit is…