sprinkling

Noun

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

• the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)

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

• a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
  • the first scatterings of green
    
  • a sprinkling of grey at his temples
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  sprinkle , sparge , aspersion , scattering