rare. [f. SPARKY a.]
1. Sparkling quality.
1641. J. Trappe, Theol. Theol., iii. 50. As wine the oftner it is poured from vessell to vessell, the more it loseth of its spirits and sparkinesse.
2. The quality of being mottled or parti-colored.
1868. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., Ser. II. IV. II. 284. Sparkiness is not liked, but still it does not constitute a valid objection.
