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Besprent

Definition: Besprent

Besprent

Adjective

1. Sprinkled over; "glistening grass besprent with raindrops".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "besprent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1819. (references)

Etymology: Besprent \Be*sprent"\, past participle [from Old English expression bespreynt, past participle of besprengen, bisprengen, to besprinkle, Anglo-Saxon besprengan, akin to Dutch German besprengen; prefix be- sprengan to sprinkle. See Sprinkle.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Synonym: Besprent

Synonym: sprinkled (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Besprent

English words defined with "besprent": sprinkled. (references)

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Expression: Besprent

Expression using "besprent": besprent with. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Besprent

Language Translations for "besprent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i spërkatur (bedewed, sloppy). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏الموصى عليه (deviser). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

обсипан (seme, semee). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

teleszórt. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

esprentbay

   

Portuguese

  

borrifado, salpicado de, esmaltado (glazed). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

risipit (broadcast, dissipated, scattered, sparse), împrãştiat (absent minded, disorderly, dissipated, giddy, littery, scatterbrain, scatterbrains, scattered, sparse, straggling, woolly-headed). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

обрызганный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

posut (seme), poprskan. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sembrado (drilled field, field sown with seed, laid, seed plot, sown field, sown laud). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

beströdd (scattered). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Besprent

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-n-p-r-s-t"

-1 letter: penster, present, repents, serpent.

-2 letters: berets, brents, enters, nester, pester, peters, preens, preset, renest, rentes, repent, resent, sprent, tenser, ternes, treens.

-3 letters: beeps, beers, beets, benes, bents, beret, beset, brees, brens, brent, enter, ernes, ester, neeps, nerts, peens, peers, penes, perse, peter, preen, prees, prese, prest, reest, rente, rents, reset, sente, sneer, speer.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-e-n-p-r-s-t"
 

+3 letters: presentable, presentably.

 

+4 letters: abruptnesses, bespattering, prepubescent, presbyterian, supercabinet, teenyboppers.

 

+5 letters: prepubescents, protuberances, representable, subdepartment, supercabinets, unrespectable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Besprent


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 73 70 72 65 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .    ...    .--.    .-.    .    -.    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01110011 01110000 01110010 01100101 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#115 &#112 &#114 &#101 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0073 0070 0072 0065 006E 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3671858284718086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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