besprinkle

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I will scatter seeds criminally thickly on the surface, pat them down, and then remember that they need cover and besprinkle them with some soil that I’ve inevitably dropped on the kitchen floor.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 23, 2019

I. "By the Urdar fount dwelling, Day by day from the rill, The Nornas besprinkle The Ash Ygg-drasill."

From Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

So he returned to his place and sat down, where upon all the handmaidens stood up and the lady bade them perfume him with pastiles and besprinkle his face with rose- water.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

To besprinkle the walking Englishmen as they came within range with a shower of circulars announcing that at "midi, chez Nigaud, il y aura un dejeuner chaud."

From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Dodd, Anna Bowman