Word Meanings - BESPURT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To spurt on or over; to asperse. Milton.

Related words: (words related to BESPURT)

• ASPERSER
  One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• SPURTLE
  To spurt or shoot in a scattering manner. Drayton.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• SPURT
  To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt. Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, Spurts in the gardener's eyes who turns the cock. Pope.
• ASPERSE
  1. To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust. Heywood. 2. To bespatter with foul reports or false and injurious charges; to tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander
• ASPERSED
  Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface. Cussans. 2. Bespattered; slandered; calumniated. Motley.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• BESPURT
  To spurt on or over; to asperse. Milton.