A spray is a jet of small drops of water or liquid vapor. It describes the medicine you use to make your nose less dry or the air freshener you use to make your bathroom less smelly.
A small shoot or branch; a twig.
Noun
a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine spray
Noun
flower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliage
Noun
a jet of vapor
Noun
a quantity of small objects flying through the air; "a spray of bullets"
Noun
a pesticide in suspension or solution; intended for spraying
Noun
water in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall
Verb
scatter in a mass or jet of droplets; "spray water on someone"; "spray paint on the wall"
Verb
cover by spraying with a liquid; "spray the wall with paint"
Verb
be discharged in sprays of liquid; "Water sprayed all over the floor"
n.
A small shoot or branch; a twig.
n.
A collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a
beautiful spray.
n.
A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to
distribute the metal in all parts of the mold.
n.
A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by
sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
v. t.
Water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force
of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like.
v. t.
A jet of fine medicated vapor, used either as an
application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a
disinfectant or a deodorizer.
v. t.
An instrument for applying such a spray; an atomizer.
v. t.
To let fall in the form of spray.
v. t.
To throw spray upon; to treat with a liquid in the form
of spray; as, to spray a wound, or a surgical instrument, with carbolic
acid.
Spray
The painted birds, companions of the spring, Hopping from spray, were heard to sing.2.
And from the trees did lop the needless spray.3.
Spray
Spray
A small shoot or branch; a twig.
Water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like.
To let fall in the form of spray.
Usage Examples
The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
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Other Usage ExamplesNature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?
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