sprinkle

Noun

• the act of sprinkling or splashing water
  • baptized with a sprinkling of holy water
    
  • a sparge of warm water over the malt
    

• a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby

Verb

• scatter with liquid; wet lightly
  • Sprinkle the lawn
    

• rain gently
  • It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick
    

• cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force
  • She splashed the water around her
    

• distribute loosely
  • He scattered gun powder under the wagon
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  sprinkling , sparge , scattering , besprinkle , spit , spatter , patter , pitter-patter , splash , splosh , scatter , dot , dust , disperse