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
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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