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Besprinkle

Besprinkle \Be*sprin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besprinkled; p. pr. & vb. n. Besprinkling.] To sprinkle over; to scatter over.

The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground.
--Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
besprinkle

mid-15c., from be- + sprinkle (v.). Related: Besprinkled; besprinkling.

Wiktionary
besprinkle

vb. (context archaic English) to sprinkle with

WordNet
besprinkle

v. scatter with liquid; wet lightly; "Sprinkle the lawn" [syn: sprinkle, sparge]

Usage examples of "besprinkle".

Number one would not go on, so she had to try on a second, and the result was that I besprinkled her plentifully.

Then the men of the towne called in their dogs, and took me and bound mee to the staple of a post, and scourged me with a great knotted whip till I was well nigh dead, and they would undoubtedly have slaine me, had it not come to passe, that what with the paine of their beating, and the greene hearbes that lay in my guts, I caught such a laske that I all besprinkled their faces with my liquid dung, and enforced them to leave off.

She heard Madame Roussillon and Father Beret chatting in the kitchen, whence came a fragrance of broiling buffalo steak besprinkled with garlic.

Kabibonokka Issued from his lodge of snow-drifts From his home among the icebergs, And his hair, with snow besprinkled, Streamed behind him like a river, Like a black and wintry river, As he howled and hurried southward, Over frozen lakes and moorlands.

There enters a square old man, with a red, pendulous jawed, shaking face under a snow besprinkled bowler hat.

That lady, as if a little besprinkled by such turns of the tide, uttered a loud inarticulate protest and, averting herself, stood a moment at the window.

The inclosures were some of them covered with a fine and rich herbage, whose appearance was bright and verdant, and its surface besprinkled with cowslips, king-cups, and daisies.

He was planted with his hands behind him, looking up first at the heavy rain-clouds, as they crossed the great bulls-eye, and then down at the besprinkled circle on the pavement.

Lewis pointed to the french window, now liberally besprinkled with dusting powder.

There was an odd scent in the air, and then a tendril of smoke arose from one of the besprinkled branches.

He had a nasty moment or two as the machine bumped over the snow-covered tussocks and molehills with which the pasture was plentifully besprinkled, but kicking on right rudder just before the Camel ran to a standstill he managed to swerve so that it stopped not far from the low hedge which divided the field from the paddock.

Her eyes were lustreless, and her hair was besprinkled with gray, and yet the right man did not offer himself.

His head was shielded from the hot sun by a little cloth cap that was torn in the crown, and his long hair and his broad back and shoulders were besprinkled with sawdust.

He was presented to Madame Gounsovski, who was besprinkled with jewels over her black silk gown.

Her face was lined, her hair of a deep brown plentifully besprinkled with grey.