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Definition: Besprent |
BesprentAdjective1. 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: BesprentSynonym: sprinkled (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Besprent |
| English words defined with "besprent": sprinkled. (references) |
Expression using "besprent": besprent with. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 borrifado, salpicado de, esmaltado (glazed). (various references) risipit (broadcast, dissipated, scattered, sparse), împrãştiat (absent minded, disorderly, dissipated, giddy, littery, scatterbrain, scatterbrains, scattered, sparse, straggling, woolly-headed). (various references) обрызганный. (various references) posut (seme), poprskan. (various references) sembrado (drilled field, field sown with seed, laid, seed plot, sown field, sown laud). (various references) beströdd (scattered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 73 70 72 65 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . ... .--. .-. . -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01110011 01110000 01110010 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e s p r e n t |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3671858284718086 |
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