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

You said, if you pulled your thumb out, you could besprinkle everything.

From Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

This same For�t d'Orleans, one of those wild-woods which so plentifully besprinkle France, has a sad and doleful memory in the traditions of the druidical inhabitants of a former day.

From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)