sprent

American  

[sprent] / sprɛnt /

adjective

Archaic.

1. sprinkled.

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Etymology

Origin of sprent

First recorded in 1505–15; past participle of obsolete sprenge “to sprinkle,” Middle English sprengen, Old English sprengan; cognate with Old High German, Middle High German, German sprengen, Old Norse sprengja “to cause to jump”; cf. sprinkle

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sprent

In Cu. a pen is said to sprent when it scatters the ink over the paper.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

Down bent He o’er her hair, thick with the night-dew sprent.

From Lilith The Legend of the First Woman by Ada Langworthy Collier

Torrent grips the Giant; Torrent vndyr hys spryt he sprent f. 79a.

From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown

I have inhaled love like a garland sprent With morning dew, and fragrant with a scent That set my kisses fluttering over it, As butterflies of silk and velvet flit.

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various

Perfume sweet, health-giving scent, The meadows' pride, is o'er it sprent: Sleep, dear son, a little spell, Sleep, sleep, and thou shalt be well.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

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