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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Sprinkling \Sprin"kling\, n.
1. The act of one who, or that which, sprinkles.
Baptism may well enough be performed by sprinkling
or effusion of water. --Ayliffe.
2. A small quantity falling in distinct drops or particles;
as, a sprinkling of rain or snow.
3. Hence, a moderate number or quantity distributed like
drops. --Craik.
Sprinkle \Sprin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sprinkled}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Sprinkling}.] [OE. sprenkelen, freq. of sprengen to
sprinkle, to scatter, AS. sprengan, properly, to make to
spring, causative of springan to spring; akin to D.
sprenkelen to sprinkle, G. sprengen. See {Spring}, v. i., and
cf. {Sprent}.]
1. To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed,
etc.
2. To scatter on; to disperse something over in small drops
or particles; to besprinkle; as, to sprinkle the earth
with water; to sprinkle a floor with sand.
3. To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small
quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.
--Heb. x. 22.
资料来源 : WordNet®
sprinkling
n 1: a small number dispersed haphazardly; "the first scatterings
of green" [syn: {scattering}]
2: a light shower that falls in some locations and not others
nearby [syn: {scattering}, {sprinkle}]
3: the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) [syn: {aspersion}]
4: the act of sprinkling or splashing water; "baptized with a
sprinkling of holy water"; "a sparge of warm water over
the malt" [syn: {sprinkle}, {sparge}]