▪ I. † sprankle, n. Obs. rare.
[Cf. next and WFris. sprankel.]
A spark or sparkle.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xv. cxviii. (Bodl. MS.), Fuyre come downe fro heuen and brend þe countrey to asschen,..and som liknes þerof is ȝitte iseen, in sprankles & iselen on treen. c 1475 Partenay 4016 With teres makyng sprancles manyon. |
▪ II. † sprankle, v. Obs.
[= Du. sprankelen, WFris. sprankelje: cf. prec. and sprank2.]
1. intr. To throw out sparks; to sparkle.
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 237 For the workes of mankynde defouled þe ayer so hiȝe,..by worschippynge of fuyre þat smokede and spranclede vp so hiȝe. 1398 ― Barth. De P.R. viii. xxix. (Tollem. MS.), In nyȝte rowynge, yf þe mone lyȝte sprankeleþ on þe oris, þan tempeste schal come in schorte tyme. Ibid. xvi. xxix, Crisolitus is a litel stone of Ethiopia schynynge as golde, and sprankelynge as fire. |
2. To crackle.
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 319 Salt Agrigentinus..melteþ in fuyre, and lepeþ and sprankeleþ [v.r. sprancleth] in water. 1398 ― Barth. De P.R. xvii. xxxi. (Bodl. MS.), Þe gode [reed] sprankeleþ in þe mouþe and [is] ful swete. |
Hence † sprankling vbl. n. Obs.—1
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xxxiii. (Tollem. MS.) By chaungynge of coloure and sprankelynge of bemis. |