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spray

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1. spray - Noun

2. spray - Verb

Meaning

A small shoot or branch; a twig.

A collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a beautiful spray.

A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold.

A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.

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.

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.

An instrument for applying such a spray; an atomizer.

To let fall in the form of spray.

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye. Bill Hicks

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew In quiet she reposes Ah, would that I did too. Matthew Arnold

Old sundial, you stand here for Time: For Love, the vine that round your base, Its tendrils twines, and dares to climb, And lay one flower-capped spray in grace, Without the asking on your cold, Unsmiling and unfrowning face. Eleanor Farjeon

The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass. Gabriel García Márquez

Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste? Harlan Ellison

[Edmonton is a] fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes. Ralph Klein

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