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Rained gently
Answer for the clue "Rained gently ", 9 letters:
sprinkled
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Word definitions for sprinkled in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. sprinkled over; "glistening grass besprent with raindrops" [syn: besprent ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: sprinkle )
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sprinkle \Sprin"kle\ (spr[i^ ng]"k'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sprinkled (-k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Sprinkling (-kl[i^]ng).] [OE. sprenkelen, freq. of sprengen to sprinkle, to scatter, AS. sprengan, properly, to make to spring, causative of springan ...
Usage examples of sprinkled.
Strain over the fish and garnish with fresh fried mushrooms and small white onions sprinkled with sugar and fried brown in clarified butter.
Serve with a border of boiled rice sprinkled with grated Parmesan cheese.
Butter a baking-pan and line it with sliced onions and tomatoes, sprinkled with salt, pepper, and minced parsley.
Freckles sprinkled over his nose and cheeks like ginger shaken on cream.
While he dumped the shards and newspaper, she sprinkled the diamonds onto velvet.
She was so pale the freckles that sprinkled over her nose and cheekbones stood out like cinnamon dashed over milk.
Expensive English lawns that had to be sprinkled in the summer and in winter lay gratis beneath the snow.
Vege-Sal is also excellent sprinkled over chops and steaks in place of regular salt.
Even though there were only the three of us, with a trail of ashes fallen out of the tinfoil ashtray and sprinkled over the table, with the too many chairs, with the stale air in the room, it felt crowded.
A few sprigs of chives, chopped fine, are exceedingly palatable, sprinkled over a lettuce, endive, string-bean, or other bean salad.
Lettuce, tomatoes cut in halves, sprinkled with powdered tarragon, and parsley or chives.
Have ready a board sprinkled lightly with bread or cracker crumbs, and roll the croquettes lightly in this, taking care not to exert pressure sufficient to break them.
Over these put a cover of more toast buttered, moistened and sprinkled with sugar.
And many such there are, annually sprinkled all round the humble huts of our imaginative and religious land, even like the wildflowers that, in endless succession, disappearing and reappearing in their beauty, Spring drops down upon every brae.
Those coppice-woods on the other shore, stealing up to the heathery rocks and sprinkled birches, are the haunts of the roe.