Definition of Besprent

1. Adjective. Sprinkled over. "Glistening grass besprent with raindrops"

Similar to: Wet

Definition of Besprent

1. p. p. Sprinkled over; strewed.

Definition of Besprent

1. Verb. (past of besprenge) ¹

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Definition of Besprent

1. sprinkled over [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Besprent

bespots
bespotted
bespouse
bespoused
bespouses
bespousing
bespout
bespouted
bespouts
bespread
bespreading
bespreads
besprenge
besprenges
besprenging
besprent (current term)
besprinkle
besprinkled
besprinkles
besprinkling
bespurt
bespurted
bespurting
bespurts
best
best(p)
best-built
best-hung
best-kept secret
best-known

Literary usage of Besprent

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

1. Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of by Forster, R. P (1818)
"their teeth, while their beard and whiskers besprent with the spume of their mouths, and wagging with the quick motion of their lips and ghastly contortions ..."

2. The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1863)
"Magi with fair arts besprent, At Thy new star's orient, Trembled inly, wondered wild, Questioned with their thoughts abroad— " What then is the new-born ..."

3. The Bible Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic Words and Phrases in the by William Aldis Wright, Jonathan Eastwood (1884)
"By then the chewing flocks Had ta:en their supper on the savoury herb Of knot-grass dew-besprent. By-way, sb. (Ju'dg. v. 6). A secret way or road. ..."

4. Sonnets of Three Centuries: A Selection Including Many Examples Hitherto by Hall Caine (1882)
"... yet intent Still to find God, ' I will go seek,' said I, ' His way upon the waters,' and drew nigh An ocean marge weed-strewn and foam besprent; ..."

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