Complete Definition of "oversprinkle"

English

Verb

  1. To be sprinkled over [something]

#:While the stars that oversprinkle all the heavens seem to twinkle with a crystalline delight

Etymology

A nonce word used by Edgar Allan Poe in his poem The Bells.

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