[f. SPRAY v.4] The action of dispersing as, or sprinkling with, spray; concr. a liquid used as a spray.
1891. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., 853. Paris green, used as a spraying for destruction of orchard caterpillars.
1894. Board of Agric. Circular, No. 10. 3. The solution was made to penetrate the soil by frequent sprayings.
1896. E. G. Lodeman (title), The Spraying of Plants … for … destroying Insects.
attrib. 1884. Knight, Dict. Mech., Suppl. 846/2. Spraying Machine, a machine … to irrigate growing cotton plants with wet poison to destroy the cotton caterpillar.
