Obs. or dial. [f. SPARKLE v.2]

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  1.  The action of dispersing or scattering.

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c. 1460.  Promp. Parv. (Winch.), 426. Sparkelyng,… discipacio.

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1530.  Palsgr., 273/2. Sparclyng abrode, dispertion.

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a. 1616.  Beaum. & Fl., Bonduca, III. ii. March close, and sudden like a tempest: all executions Done without sparkling of the Body.

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  2.  techn. (See quot. and cf. SPARKLE v.2 4 b.)

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1787.  W. H. Marshall, E. Norfolk (1795), II. 388. Sparkling. Claying between the spars to cover the thatch of cottages.

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