Obs. Also 5 sprenkle, 6 spryncle, sprinckle (Sc. sprink-, sprynkill), 7 sprinkel-. [app. related to SPRANKLE v.]

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  1.  intr. To sparkle.

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c. 1400.  Maundev. (Roxb.), xxxi. 139. His eghen er so fast stirrand and sprenkland as fyre.

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1535.  Trevisa’s Barth. De P. R., XVI. xxix. Crisolitus is a lityll stone of Ethiopia shyninge as golde, and sprinkling as fyre.

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1542.  Boorde, Dyetary, x. (1870), 254. Wyne … must spryncle in the cup whan it is drawne or put out of the pot.

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1573.  Twyne, Æneid., XII. 26. From his face with rage that boyles The sparkles sprinckling flie.

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1600.  Fairfax, Tasso, XVIII. xvi. 318. The heau’nly dew was on his garments spred,… And sprinkled so, that all that palenesse fled.

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1630.  D. Dyke, Myst. Self-Deceiuing, 201. The wine sprinkling and leaping in the glasse.

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  2.  Sc. To wriggle; to dart quickly.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneid, XI. xiv. 71. Allthocht scho [a serpent] wreill, and sprynkill, bend, or skyp, Evir the sarar this ern strenis his gryp. Ibid., XII. Prol. 56. The syluer scalyt fyschis on the greit Ourthwort cleir stremis sprynkland for the heyt.

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