ppl. a. [f. SPRINKLE v.1]

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  1.  Besprinkled (with moisture, color, etc.). Also absol.

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1382.  Wyclif, Gen. xxxi. 12. Se alle the malis,… varye, and sprynklid, and spottid.

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1781.  Cowper, Charity, 609/1. Relenting forms would lose their pow’r,… And ev’n the dipt and sprinkled live in peace.

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1832.  J. Rennie, Consp. Butterfl. & Moths, 88. The Sprinkled Wainscot (Leucania suffusa) appears in June.

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1888.  Jacobi, Printers’ Vocab., 130. Sprinkled edges, cut edges of books are sometimes finely sprinkled with colour to prevent them getting soiled.

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  2.  Dispersed by, or as by, sprinkling.

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1590.  Spenser, F. Q., I. vii. 32. With sprincled pearle, and gold full richly drest.

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1647.  H. More, Minor Poems, Cupid’s Conflict, xlii. So Natures carelesse pencill … With sprinkled starres hath spattered the Night.

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1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., IV. 335. With sprinkl’d Water first the City choak. Ibid. (1700), Pal. & Arc., III. 76. Some sprinkled Freckles on his Face were seen.

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1862.  B. Taylor, Poet’s Jrnl. (1866), 31. The sprinkled drops of moonshine flashed.

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