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Webster 1913 Edition
Spray
1.
A small shoot or branch; a twig.
Chaucer.
Syn. – sprig.
The painted birds, companions of the spring,
Hopping from
Hopping from
spray
to spray
, were heard to sing. Dryden.
And from the trees did lop the needless
spray
. Spenser.
3.
(Founding)
(a)
A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold.
(b)
A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
Knight.
Spray drain
(Agric.)
, a drain made by laying under earth the sprays or small branches of trees, which keep passages open.
1.
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.
2.
(Med.)
(a)
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.
(b)
An instrument for applying such a spray; an atomizer.
Spray condenser
(Steam Engine)
, an injection condenser in which the steam is condensed by a spray of water which mingles with it.
Spray
,Verb.
T.
1.
To let fall in the form of spray.
[Poetic]
M. Arnold.
2.
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 acidWebster 1828 Edition
Spray
SPRAY
,Noun.
1.
A small shoot or branch; or the extremity of a branch. Hence in England, spray faggots are bundles of small branches, used as fuel.2.
Among seamen, the water that is driven from the top of a wave in a storm, which spreads and flies in small particles. It differs from spoon-drift; as spray is only occasional, whereas spoon-drift flies continually along the surface of the sea.