Sprinkled

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sprinkle \Sprin"kle\ (spr[i^][ng]"k'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Sprinkled} (-k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sprinkling}
     (-kl[i^]ng).] [OE. sprenkelen, freq. of sprengen to sprinkle,
     to scatter, AS. sprengan, properly, to make to spring,
     causative of springan to spring; akin to D. sprenkelen to
     sprinkle, G. sprengen. See {Spring}, v. i., and cf.


     {Sprent}.]
     1. To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed,
        etc.
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     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.
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     3. To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small
        quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
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              Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.
                                                    --Heb. x. 22.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sprinkled
       adj : sprinkled over; "glistening grass besprent with raindrops"
             [syn: {besprent}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "sprinkled":
     bespangled, blotched, blotchy, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy,
     dotted, dotty, dusted, exiguous, flea-bitten, flecked, fleckered,
     frecked, freckled, freckly, infrequent, macular, maculate,
     maculated, meager, miserly, niggardly, patchy, peppered, piddling,
     pocked, pockmarked, pocky, pointille, pointillistic, polka-dot,
     poor, powdered, punctated, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered,
     scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, skimping, skimpy,
     slim, spangled, sparse, spattered, specked, speckled, speckledy,
     speckly, splattered, splotched, splotchy, spotted, spotty, stingy,
     stippled, studded, thin, tight