transitive. To sprinkle (anything) over. with moisture or powder: To besprinkle, asperse.

transitive. To sprinkle (a person or thing with holy water) (obsolete exc. archaic); to sprinkle or strew (a surface with something); also with over…

to besprinkle completely.

To sprinkle, bestrew, or bespatter with (also in) something; to dot thickly.

transitive. Chiefly with with. To cover or scatter (an object, surface, person, etc.) with small drops, particles, or amounts of a substance.

transitive. To sprinkle all over with small drops (of liquid), or with powdery substance, as flour, salt.

To besprinkle, bespatter (a person or thing) with.

transitive. To sprinkle.

To sprinkle, besprinkle.

transitive. To cover (a surface) with numerous small spots or objects, as with grains of pepper (usually in passive). Also: (of small objects or…

transitive. To pepper.

Irregular by-form of consperge, v.

transitive. To besprinkle, strew with.

transitive. To besprinkle or bespatter. rare.

To cover in a dispersed manner.

transitive. To sprinkle, strew all over, ‘pepper’.

transitive. To sprinkle. Usually with with. Now rare.

transitive. To spatter over; to cover with small spots of wet mud or anything of like consistency.

transitive. To sprinkle with an additional layer.

= asperse, v. (Bailey 1721.) Obsolete.

To bespatter, besprinkle. Also figurative.

To sprinkle with or as with spray; to wet with fine particles of water or other liquid, esp. by means of a special instrument or apparatus.