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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Besprinkled p. pr. & vb. n. Besprinkling ] To sprinkle over; to scatter over. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, besprinkles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over. [ 1913 Webster ]

. See under Print. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in SE Europe and US.
Syn. -- velvetleaf, velvetweed, Indian mallow, China jute, Abutilon theophrasti. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. caprinus. ] Of or pertaining to a goat; as, caprine gambols. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. 1. To print together. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (O. Eng. Law) To print surreptitiously a work belonging to another. E. Phillips. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (O. Eng. Law) The surreptitious printing of another's copy or book; a work thus printed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction. [ See Illustr. of Groined vault. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Cypress. ] Of or pertaining to the cypress. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Cyprinoid. ] (Zool.) Cyprinoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of fishes including the carp; tench; roach; rudd; and dace.
Syn. -- family Cyprinidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an order of fishes including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as Cyprinoidea, a suborder of Ostariophysi.
Syn. -- order Cypriniformes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; kind of carp + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, a tooth. ] (Zool.) One of the Cyprinodontidae, a family of fishes including the killifishes or minnows. See Minnow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a large family of small soft-finned fishes; killifishes; flagfishes; swordtails; guppies.
Syn. -- family Cyprinodontidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; a kind of carp + -oid. ] (Zool.) Like the carp (Cyprinus). -- n. One of the Cyprinidae, or Carp family, as the goldfish, barbel, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the type genus of the family Cyprinidae; carp.
Syn. -- genus Cyprinus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The beginning of the day, or first appearance of light; the dawn; hence, the beginning. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us. Luke i. 78. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make unlike a prince. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

For I was drench'd with ooze, and torn with briers, . . .
And, all one rag, disprinced from head to heel. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Railroad) The spring to which a drawbar is attached. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Obs. ] See Imprint. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Springal. ] (Mil. Antiq.) An engine of war used for throwing viretons, large stones, and other missiles; a springal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Finger + print. ] 1. an impression of the pattern of ridges on the skin of the last joint of a person's finger, left on a surface after a person has touched the surface. Fingerprints left by persons who have committed crimes are considered as reliable physical evidence linking an individual with a crime, because each person's fingerprints are distinctively different from those of others, allowing identification of a person with high confidence. [ PJC ]

2. a fingerprint{ 1 } made intentionally in ink on a paper form for the purpose of identification of the individual. [ PJC ]

3. any distinctive pattern of characteristics or properties of an object which can serve to identify that object; as, the distinctive fingerprint of eugenol in the mass spectrum allowed easy recognition of its presence in the sample. [ PJC ]

4. a smudge made by a (dirty) finger. [ wns=3 ]
Syn. -- fingermark. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. to take an impression of the fingerprints of (a person); as, to fingerprint applicants for a gun permit. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. The procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The impression of the foot; a trace or footmark; as, “Footprints of the Creator.” [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Horology) The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fountain; source. [ 1913 Webster ]

The headspring of our belief. Stapleton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Possessed of noble or honorable principles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a visible impression on a surface made by the hoof of an animal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Imptrinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Imprinting. ] [ OE. emprenten, F. empreint, p. p. of empreindre to imprint, fr. L. imprimere to impres, imprint. See 1st In-, Print, and cf. Impress. ] 1. To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp. [ 1913 Webster ]

And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates, stamps, or the like; to print the mark (figures, letters, etc., upon something). [ 1913 Webster ]

Nature imprints upon whate'er we see,
That has a heart and life in it, “Be free.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To fix indelibly or permanently, as in the mind or memory; to impress. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ideas of those two different things distinctly imprinted on his mind. Locke.

4. (Ethology) To create or acquire (a behavioral pattern) by the process of imprinting. [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. empreinte impress, stamp. See Imprint, v. t. ] Whatever is impressed or imprinted; the impress or mark left by something; specifically, the name of the printer or publisher (usually) with the time and place of issue, in the title-page of a book, or on any printed sheet. “That imprint of their hands.” Buckle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Ethology, Psychology) The learning of a behavioral pattern that occurs soon after birth or hatching in certain animals, in which a long-lasting response to an individual (such as a parent) or an object is rapidly acquired; it is particularly noted in the response of certain birds to the animal they first see after hatching, usually the parent, as in ducks who will follow the adult duck they first see. [ PJC ]

n. (Computers) A type of printer used as a peripheral device for computers, in which the color is applied to the paper by spraying liquid ink onto paper through tiny orifices in a moving print head, to construct the desired pattern on the paper by placing one dot or several dots at a time on the paper. [ PJC ]

n. [ D., lit., cliff springer. ] (Zool.) A small, graceful South African antelope (Nanotragus oreotragus), which, like the chamois, springs from one crag to another with great agility; -- called also kainsi. [ Written also klippspringer. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A printer controlled by a computer, using a laser beam to produce images in a fine dot-matrix pattern of charge on an electrostatic drum, to which fine particles of ink are subsequently caused to adhere, and the image of which is subsequently transferred to paper or another type of material in sheet form. It is capable of high-speed production of images with a higher resolution than those from dot-matrix impact printers. [ PJC ]

n. Spring or source of life. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The principal or most important spring in a piece of mechanism, especially the moving spring of a watch or clock or the spring in a gunlock which impels the hammer. Hence: (Fig.) The chief or most powerful motive; the efficient cause of action; as, the mainspring of action. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To print wrongly; to make a mistake in printing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mistake in printing; a deviation from the copy; as, a book full of misprints. Misprints are sometimes noted and corrected in a list of corrigenda distributed with a book. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. Cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers.
Syn. -- newspaper. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ A trade name. ] A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine used to relieve the pain of arthritis and as an analgesic and antipyretic; Advil and Motrin and Nuprin are trademarks of brands of ibuprofen tablets. [ Trademark. ]
Syn. -- ibuprofen, isobutylphenyl propionic acid, Advil, Motrin. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A reprint or excerpt. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ Off + print. ] To reprint (as an excerpt); as, the articles of some magazines are offprinted from other magazines. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Printing) A printing technique in which a lithographic image on an inked metal or stone plate is transferred first to a rubber sheet (usually on a cylinder) before transfer to the paper. Called also offset lithography. [ PJC ]

n. sing. & pl. [ Off + spring. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of production; generation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock. [ 1913 Webster ]

To the gods alone
Our future offspring and our wives are known. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Origin; lineage; family. [ Obs. ] Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The osprey. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]