bespray

English

Etymology

From be- (“on, upon, all over”) +‎ spray.

Verb

bespray (third-person singular simple present besprays, present participle bespraying, simple past and past participle besprayed)

1. (rare, transitive) To spray on; spray all over; besprinkle, bespatter.
   • 1858, Thomas Carlyle, Meister's Travels:

     In the heart of the rude Mountains shines the graceful seeming-boy, encircled with toppling cliffs, besprayed with cataracts, in the middle of a motley horde.

   • 1881, Richard H. Horne, Bible Tragedies, page 30:

     Her limbs are roseate, and a sparkling dew
     Besprays her symmetry, as from the sea […]

   • 1919, Bernard Lyman Johnson, Farm Mechanics:

     […] the more voracious fellows disposing of the food before the feeder has time to dump all of it, and in the bargain perhaps liberally bespraying the man with mud or swill, […]