overˈsprinkle, v.
[over- 8.]
trans. To sprinkle over, besprinkle.
| 1563 Homilies ii. Rebellion vi. (1859) 593 So is there no country..which..hath not been oversprinkled with the blood of subjects. c 1576 Gascoigne Devyll's Will, Item I geve to the Butchers new freshe blood to ouersprinkle their stale mete that it may seme..newly kylled. a 1849 Poe Bells Poems (1859) 73 The stars that oversprinkle All the heavens. |