BESPRINKLE

sprinkle, sparge, besprinkle

(verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly; “Sprinkle the lawn”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

besprinkle (third-person singular simple present besprinkles, present participle besprinkling, simple past and past participle besprinkled)

(archaic, transitive) To sprinkle.

Source: Wiktionary


Be*sprin"kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besprinkled; p. pr. & vb. n. Besprinkling.]

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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