Word Meanings - SPARGEFACTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of sprinkling. Swift.

Related words: (words related to SPARGEFACTION)

• 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
• SWIFTNESS
  The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
• SWIFTLET
  Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.
• SWIFTER
  A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it. A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides. The forward shroud of a lower mast.
• SWIFTLY
  In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly. Wyclif.
• SWIFTFOOT
  Nimble; fleet. Mir. for Mag.
• SWIFT
  to swapan to sweep, swipu a whip; cf. swifan to move quickly, to 1. Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt. My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak,
• SPRINKLER
  1. One who sprinkles. 2. An instrument or vessel used in sprinkling; specifically, a watering pot.
• 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
• BESPRINKLER
  One who, or that which, besprinkles.
• BESPRINKLE
  To sprinkle over; to scatter over. The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden.
• BESPRINKLING
  The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over.