Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Besprinkling \Be*sprin"kling\, n.
   The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over.

Besprinkle \Be*sprin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Besprinkled}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Besprinkling}.]
   To sprinkle over; to scatter over.

         The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. --Dryden.