rare. [f. SPRAY sb.1]

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  1.  trans. To furnish with sprays or twigs.

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1572.  Bossewell, Armorie, II. 88 b. And the hande highte Palma, when the fingers benne streithte foorthe, as it were boughes, or braunches sprayed.

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  2.  intr. To grow out into sprays or twigs; to ramify.

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1872.  C. King, Mountain. Sierra Nev., ii. 41. Huge branches which quickly turn down, and spray out.

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1891.  J. Winsor, Columbus, vi. 131. It became clear that the currents of the Atlantic … sprayed in a circling fringe in the North Atlantic.

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