Obs. [= Du. sprankelen, WFris. sprankelje: cf. prec. and SPRANK2.]

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  1.  intr. To throw out sparks; to sparkle.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), II. 237. For the workes of mankynde defouled þe ayer so hiȝe,… by worschippynge of fuyre þat smokede and spranclede vp so hiȝe. Ibid. (1398), Barth. De P. R., VIII. xxix. (Tollem. MS.). In nyȝte rowynge, yf þe mone lyȝte sprankeleþ on þe oris, þan tempeste schal come in schorte tyme. Ibid., XVI. xxix. Crisolitus is a litel stone of Ethiopia schynynge as golde, and sprankelynge as fire.

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  2.  To crackle.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), I. 319. Salt Agrigentinus … melteþ in fuyre, and lepeþ and sprankeleþ [v.r. sprancleth] in water. Ibid. (1398), Barth. De P. R., XVII. xxxi. (Bodl. MS.). Þe gode [reed] sprankeleþ in þe mouþe and [is] ful swete.

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  Hence † Sprankling vbl. sb. Obs.–1

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VIII. xxxiii. (Tollem. MS.). By chaungynge of coloure and sprankelynge of bemis.

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