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sprinkling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 to spring; akin to D. sprenkelen to sprinkle, G. sprengen. See Spring, v. i., and cf. Sprent.]
To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc.
To scatter on; to disperse something over in small drops or particles; to besprinkle; as, to sprinkle the earth with water; to sprinkle a floor with sand.
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To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.
--Heb. x. 22.
Sprinkling \Sprin"kling\ (-kl[i^]ng), n.
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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. A small quantity falling in distinct drops or particles; as, a sprinkling of rain or snow.
Hence, a moderate number or quantity distributed like separate drops, or as if scattered like drops.
--Craik.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "act of sprinkling," verbal noun from sprinkle (v.). Meaning "small amount" is from 1590s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The action of the verb '''to sprinkle'''. 2 A small amount of (some liquid, powder or other fine substance) that is sprinkled on to something. 3 A light shower of rain. vb. (present participle of sprinkle English)
WordNet
n. a small number dispersed haphazardly; "the first scatterings of green" [syn: scattering]
a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby [syn: scattering, sprinkle]
the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) [syn: aspersion]
the act of sprinkling or splashing water; "baptized with a sprinkling of holy water"; "a sparge of warm water over the malt" [syn: sprinkle, sparge]
Wikipedia
Sprinkling can refer to:
- Sprinkling, a method of baptism, particularly used for infant baptism.
- Sprinkling, a type of character in the video game Viva Piñata.
- Sprinkling is a method of creating a causal set from a Lorentzian manifold.
Usage examples of "sprinkling".
Thinking that she might be really ill I played my part properly, and brought her to herself by sprinkling her with cold water and putting my vinaigrette to her nose.
It was still sprinkling, but Bult turned off his umbrella and collapsed it.
Sprinkling a greenish powder into a tall hydrometer jar, The Shadow filled it with water and poured the zircons into it.
Beyond him, at irregular intervals, were six or seven men that the Markgraf of Velegrad could barely recognize as members of his bodyguard, and, beyond them, some battered gallowglasses and a sprinkling of Scots.
Beyond him, at irregular intervals, were six or seven men that -the Markgraf of Velegrad could barely recognize as members of his bodyguard, and, beyond them, some battered gallowglasses and a sprinkling of Scots.
A liberal sprinkling of black-and-white people -- persons who are accessing the Metaverse through cheap public terminals, and who are rendered in jerky, grainy black and white.
Linen parasols sprouted like pastel mushrooms from the boats, and there was a sprinkling of what were obviously townspeople on the dock, standing as we were, looking expectantly across the harbor.
The flowers were color-coordinated with the walls: bronze chrysanthemums, sprays of pale everlasting, a sprinkling of strawflowers colored like the orange metal of cheap Far Eastern jewelry.
Before he could speak I said the words of Summoning, opening the door in my mind to all possibilities, sprinkling the ash liberally over the circle.
The low chant began, as, with swaying censer, blessed salt and the sprinkling of holy water, the monks began their ninefold circle.
The priest then went along between the lines of the people, sprinkling them with holy water, and this being done the ceremony was declared complete, and the King of Ternate and his people were received into the bosom of the Church.
Passing through these faculties with baneful haste and a harmful diploma, they lay violent hands upon Moses, and sprinkling about their faces dark waters and thick clouds of the skies, they offer their heads, unhonoured by the snows of age, for the mitre of the pontificate.
It was frequented by Broadwayites of shabby reputation, a sprinkling of cheap prizefighters, and quite a few of the more sporty figures in the underworld.
He had first been truly glad that he had them on the day when he, by then Lord Commander of the Royal English and Welsh Horse, had brought to battle a tardy, mounted force of CrusadersSpanish, Catalonian, Aragonese, Leonese, Asturian, Galician, Andalusian, Moorish, and Portuguese, with a light sprinkling of other nationalitiesthat had landed on the southern coast late in the winter and had been since playing hob in the most southerly counties.
Familiar faces hove into view, some known personally, some known at the intimate remove of modern celebrityhood, local media types tanned and satisfied, a sprinkling of higher-magnitude stars down from the mountain in Aspen, the socialite grouper fish, the trolling politicos, and the renowned and endowed from the glamorous world of adult entertainment, all the well-connected folk you could ever hope to rig a hot wire to.