Word Meanings - SPARGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To sprinkle; to moisten by sprinkling; as, to sparge paper.

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• SPRINKLING
  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
• MOISTENER
  One who, or that which, moistens. Johnson.
• SPARGER
  A vessel with a perforated cover, for sprinkling with a liquid; a sprinkler.
• SPARGE
  To sprinkle; to moisten by sprinkling; as, to sparge paper.
• PAPERY
  Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper. Gray.
• SPRINKLER
  1. One who sprinkles. 2. An instrument or vessel used in sprinkling; specifically, a watering pot.
• MOISTEN
  1. To make damp; to wet in a small degree. A pipe a little moistened on the inside. Bacon. 2. To soften by making moist; to make tender. It moistened not his executioner's heart with any pity. Fuller.
• PAPER
  1. A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried.
• SPARGEFACTION
  The act of sprinkling. Swift.
• SPRINKLE
  scatter, AS. sprengan, properly, to make to spring, causative of springan to spring; akin to D. sprenkelen to sprinkle, G. sprengen. 1. To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc. 2. To scatter on; to disperse something over in
• PAPERWEIGHT
  See N
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
• BROMIDE PAPER; BROMID PAPER
  A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.
• CAPPAPER
  See N
• BLOTTING PAPER
  A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.
• NOTE PAPER
  Writing paper, not exceeding in size, when folded once, five by eight inches.
• CASSE PAPER
  Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream.
• BESPRINKLER
  One who, or that which, besprinkles.
• ALPHA PAPER
  A sensitized paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride.
• BESPRINKLE
  To sprinkle over; to scatter over. The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden.
• JOSS PAPER
  Gold and silver paper burned by the Chinese, in the form of coins or ingots, in worship and at funerals.
• BESPRINKLING
  The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over.
• TOUCH-PAPER
  Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.
• OZONE PAPER
  Paper coated with starch and potassium iodine. It turns blue when exposed to ozone.>-- also called starch-iodide paper -->