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”; sprinkle

Example Sentences

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

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias

There are, however, a few words in Sco. that bear a Dan. stamp: sprent, donk and slonk exhibit E.Scand. non-assimilation of nt and nk to tt and kk.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias

Such words as steed, swain, wight, muse, Pegasus, yclept, a-cold, sprent, bower, meed, isle, a-field, dight, sooth, hight, and many others, are hardly ever met with in ordinary prose.

From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)

Look at yon carven shield, Above the chantry door, No blazoned pride bedecks its field, But emblems five sprent o'er.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton

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

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