[f. SPARK v.1]
1. That emits sparks; filled with sparks.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 2925. Wit sparcand reke … Als it war a brinand ouen.
1826. J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 152. Then there is naething but sparking ashes.
1904. Westm. Gaz., 21 Sept., 1/1. About as comfortable a seat as a barrel of gunpowder in a sparking smithy.
2. Sc. That gives off spots; spattering.
1873. A. G. Murdoch, Lilts on Doric Lyre, 57.
| Noo, I maun dicht my sparkin’ pen, | |
| And bring this rhyme-shot to an en’. |
