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Sprinkling   /sprˈɪŋklɪŋ/  /sprˈɪŋkəlɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Sprinkle  v. t.  (past & past part. sprinkled; pres. part. sprinkling)  
1.
To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc.
2.
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.
3.
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."



Sprinkle  v. i.  
1.
To scatter a liquid, or any fine substance, so that it may fall in particles. "And the priest shall... sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord."
2.
To rain moderately, or with scattered drops falling now and then; as, it sprinkles.
3.
To fly or be scattered in small drops or particles.



noun
Sprinkling  n.  
1.
The act of one who, or that which, sprinkles. "Baptism may well enough be performed by sprinkling or effusion of water."
2.
A small quantity falling in distinct drops or particles; as, a sprinkling of rain or snow.
3.
Hence, a moderate number or quantity distributed like separate drops, or as if scattered like drops.






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"Sprinkling" Quotes from Famous Books



... thick bobbins, which hang over their foreheads, nearly as low down as the eye-brows, and are there joined at the bottom, as far round to each side as the temples. The hair is so profusely covered with oil, that it drops down over the face and clothes. This is dried up, by sprinkling it with plenty of a preparation made of a plant resembling wild lavender, cloves, and one or two more species pounded into powder, and called atria; it forms a brown dirty-looking paste, and combined with perspiration ...
— Lander's Travels - The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa • Robert Huish

... made friendship over such matters as will bring man and boy together to the end of time. And the old pauper waxed eloquent on the feats of Homing Birds and Tumblers, and on the points of Almonds and Barbs, Fantails and Pouters; sprinkling his narrative also with high sounding and heterogeneous titles, such as Dragons and Archangels, Blue Owls and Black Priests, Jacobines, English Horsemen and Trumpeters. And through much boasting of the high stakes he had had on this and that pigeon-match then, and not a few bitter complaints of the ...
— Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories • Juliana Horatio Ewing

... and the water allowed to go cold. The water, which after the boiling process turns to a dark red color, is then drawn off. This water carries the copper in a state of solution. The ore is then boiled a second time, after which the tank residues are thrown out and water kept sprinkling over them. This water collects the copper still left in the residues, and is then run into a reservoir, and from the reservoirs still further on into ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 • Various

... left behind. He couldn't walk, of course. But he crawled into a shell hole, and there he lay. Well, for the next two days that wood wasn't healthy for either side. The Germans couldn't get back, because we were sprinkling the whole place with shrapnel. We couldn't advance for similar reasons. Simcox just lay in his shell hole. He tied up his leg somehow. He had some brandy in a flask as well as his iron rations. But he hadn't much tobacco. There were only two cigarettes in his own case. However, he ...
— Our Casualty And Other Stories - 1918 • James Owen Hannay, AKA George A. Birmingham

... better shape than before. A number of Red tents and temporary wooden shelters had risen if by magic in the small open space around. Trenches stretched eastward, communicating the new trenches now occupied by Americans French, with a sprinkling of ...
— Our Pilots in the Air • Captain William B. Perry


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