besprinkle

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I will scatter seeds criminally thickly on the surface, pat them down, and then remember that they need cover and besprinkle them with some soil that I’ve inevitably dropped on the kitchen floor.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 23, 2019

Beflower, be-flow′ėr, v.t. to cover or besprinkle with flowers.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Then take her blood, and cast it on this brake, And therewithal besprinkle all his face, And he shall be restored to his sense, His health and memory, as heretofore.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by Hazlitt, William Carew

He shook off the earth with which he had tried to besprinkle himself and scrambled up.

From Secret Bread by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)

I. "By the Urdar fount dwelling, Day by day from the rill, The Nornas besprinkle The Ash Ygg-drasill."

From Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron