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Sprinkling

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The action of the verb to sprinkle.
  2. 2
    the act of sprinkling or splashing water wordnet
  3. 3
    A small thinly distributed amount, e.g. of some liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled on to something.

    "Among the devotees […] were persons who suffered from loathsome skin diseases, such as smallpox, abscesses, and the itch; and among them there was a fair sprinkling of debauchees, who had drunk themselves nearly blind and hoped to recover the use of their precious eyes by parading for a month in this curious mantle."

  4. 4
    the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) wordnet
  5. 5
    A light shower of rain.
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  1. 6
    a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby wordnet
  2. 7
    A scattering.
  3. 8
    a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of sprinkle form-of, gerund, participle, present

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