Main entry: sprinkle, sprinkling, sparge
Definition: the act of sprinkling or splashing water
Usage: baptized with a sprinkling of holy water; a sparge of warm water over the malt
Main entry: aspersion, sprinkling
Definition: the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)
Main entry: sprinkle, sprinkling, scattering
Definition: a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
Main entry: sprinkling, scattering
Definition: a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
Usage: the first scatterings of green; a sprinkling of grey at his temples