Definition of Sprent

1. sprinkled over [adj]

Medical Definition of Sprent

1. Of Sprenge. Sprinkled. "All the ground with purple blood was sprent." (Spenser) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sprent

spreeing
sprees
spreethe
spreethed
spreethes
spreeze
spreezed
spreezes
spreezing
spreite
spreiten
sprelve
sprelves
sprengel pump
sprent (current term)
spreon
spreons
sprew
sprews
sprezzatura
sprezzaturas
sprier
spriest
sprig
sprig tail
sprigged
sprigger
spriggers
spriggier

Literary usage of Sprent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"Come what might, I knew now that he was in the keeping of a good man who would see that no harm befell him. XXXIV OF THE COMING OF SOLOMON sprent THE church ..."

2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"Scot, we use the word sprent, for the spring, or elastic force of any thin, Rudd.; also, any elastic body. ..."

3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"sprent [sprent], s. (1) a sudden start or spring. ... We mun make a sprent, an' get the work done, so as we con go Maupas wakes" [Wi mun mark u sprent, ..."

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