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Besprinkling

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.

Besprinkling

Besprinkling \Be*sprin"kling\, n. The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over.

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besprinkling

vb. (present participle of besprinkle English)

Usage examples of "besprinkling".

You that build the shade-roof, and you that court the rays, You that leap besprinkling the rock stream-rent: He has been our fellow, the morning of our days!

For the first time he perceived all the infamous manner of his death: the shameless populace crowding round the scaffold, the hateful hand of the executioner taking him by the Hair, and the drops of his blood besprinkling the white raiment of his sister and covering her with shame.

Foma liked to watch while the deck was being washed: their trousers rolled up to their knees, or sometimes taken off altogether, the sailors, with swabs and brushes in their hands, cleverly ran about the deck, emptying pails of water on it, besprinkling one another, laughing, shouting, falling.