besprinkle
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of besprinkle
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at be-, sprinkle
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I will scatter seeds criminally thickly on the surface, pat them down, and then remember that they need cover and besprinkle them with some soil that I’ve inevitably dropped on the kitchen floor.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2019
Vials of good sweet waters, and casting bottels of glasses to besprinkle the ghests withall, after their comming aboord.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 by Richard Hakluyt
She had still to bring away luggage from Maienthal, to besprinkle her friendships, and once more to set foot in the magic circle of her beloved teacher; and had, therefore, gone off.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
I. "By the Urdar fount dwelling, Day by day from the rill, The Nornas besprinkle The Ash Ygg-drasill."
From Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
The novel goes on apace; but I shall besprinkle it with local color afterwards.
From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by Aimée G. Leffingwel McKenzie
So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital I's.
From Time Magazine Archive
They cast off their burdens into the flowery meadows and besprinkled themselves with the pools of crystal water beneath the fountains.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare
Yet even for these levities with which his pages are so liberally besprinkled or bedaubed, some half-apology may be circumspectly urged.
From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres
When we came out of the wood, we saw a meadow thickly besprinkled with autumn flowers.
From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Paul Heyse
They came close to the little Peppers, so that the stiff black silk coat, now plentifully besprinkled with mud, brushed them as it passed.
From Ben Pepper by Margaret Sidney
Others there be, whose parts stand not so much towards Tall Words and Lofty Notions, but consist in scattering up and down and besprinkling all their sermons with plenty of Greek and Latin.
From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Professor Thomas Seccombe Arber
There were several spots upon the white linen shirt, besprinkling the plaits upon the bosom, and others upon the sleeves; also the cheeks of the youth showed a drop or two on their pallid ground.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid
Here are the headquarters of a large division of British troops, the red coats besprinkling every street and roadway.
From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou
The clouds hung low, and at intervals warm light showers descended besprinkling both alike.
From The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book by Ontario. Ministry of Education
Having once passed it in, I find 'You that leap besprinkling the rock stream-rent,' with its delicate labial pause and its delicate consonantal chime, one of the most fascinating lines in the stanza.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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