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Spray   /spreɪ/   Listen
noun
Spray  n.  
1.
A small shoot or branch; a twig.
Synonyms: sprig. "The painted birds, companions of the spring, Hopping from spray to spray, were heard to sing."
2.
A collective body of small branches, or cut flowers with long stems; as, the tree has a beautiful spray; many sprays were sent in condolence to teh funeral home. "And from the trees did lop the needless spray."
3.
(Founding)
(a)
A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold.
(b)
A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
Spray drain (Agric.), a drain made by laying under earth the sprays or small branches of trees, which keep passages open.


Spray  n.  
1.
Water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like.
2.
(Med.)
(a)
A jet of fine medicated vapor, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer.
(b)
An instrument for applying such a spray; an atomizer.
Spray condenser (Steam Engine), an injection condenser in which the steam is condensed by a spray of water which mingles with it.


verb
Spray  v. t.  
1.
To let fall in the form of spray. (Poetic)
2.
To throw spray upon; to treat with a liquid in the form of spray; as, to spray a wound, or a surgical instrument, with carbolic acid.





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"Spray" Quotes from Famous Books



... stating that she is equipped to supply ideas for gardens and personally to plant them; to expend limited sums of money to the best advantage for beauty and service; to take entire charge of gardens and orchards for the season and personally to supervise gardens during the owners' absence; to spray ornamental trees and shrubs, and prune them; and to care for indoor plants and ...
— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
... tall hemlocks proceeds a very fine insect-like warble, and occasionally I see a spray tremble, or catch the flit of a wing. I watch and watch till my head grows dizzy and my neck is in danger of permanent displacement, and still do not get a good view. Presently the bird darts, or, as it seems, falls down a few feet in pursuit of a fly or a moth, ...
— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs
... to bite his enemy, but this designation, together with his "missionary" name "Ebenezer," did not survive the test of usage. Miss Gordon Cumming gives an interesting list of Fijian names translated into English. For women they were such as Spray of the Coral Reef, Queen of Parrot's Land, Queen of Strangers, Smooth Water, Wife of the Morning Star, Mother of Her Grandchildren, Ten Whale's Teeth, Mother of Cockroaches, Lady Nettle, Drinker ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86
... awoke, and went on deck to find a heavy sea running, and just sufficient sail set to keep the schooner's head before the wind as she bobbed about on the waters. An exclamation from the skipper, as a wave broke against the side and flung a cloud of spray over him, brought the ...
— Many Cargoes • W.W. Jacobs
... well—you can't have forgotten? You and I and little Jerry and Miss Jencks are going round the world when I am sixteen! To Japan, and see the wistaria and the cherry blossoms and the five hundred little stone Buddha-gods that get all wet with spray and the red bridge nobody may ...
— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell


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