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v. - Scatter with liquid.

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Usage examples (33)
  • Thy great goodness besprinkle for me that sweetness?
  • He shook off the earth with which he had tried to besprinkle himself and scrambled up.
  • So long as thou dost not besprinkle those same bodies with thy water, there is no salvation for these same Sagara's sons.
  • The waves break on these huge masses without intermission, with a hollow and alternating roar, or rise up in sheets of foam, which besprinkle their hoary fronts.
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