spray¹ /sprā/

1. A cloud of small flying drops
2. An application or dispersion of such a cloud
3. An apparatus or a preparation for so dispersing
4. Harsh criticism (Aust)

1. To sprinkle in or with fine mistlike jets
2. To spray-paint
3. To make the target of a stream of bullets

sprayˈer noun

sprayˈey adjective

sprayˈ-dried adjective

spray drift noun

Spray, esp a chemical pesticide or herbicide, which remains suspended in the air and is blown away from the original site of spraying by the wind

spray drying noun

The rapid drying of a liquid by spraying it into a flow of hot gas

spray gun noun

A device for applying paint, etc, by spraying

sprayˈ-on adjective

Applied in a spray, usu by an aerosol

spray paint noun

Paint that is applied in the form of a spray, usu an aerosol

sprayˈ-paint transitive verb

1. To use spray paint (on something)
2. To apply with spray paint

sprayˈ-painting noun

spray steel noun

Steel made by pouring molten iron through a ring of oxygen jets, a method of rapidly oxidizing impurities

spray² /sprā/

1. A shoot or twig, esp one spreading out in branches or flowers
2. An ornament, casting, etc, of similar form

To spread or branch in a spray

sprayˈey adjective

Branching

spray³ /sprā/, spreathe, spreethe /sprēdh/, spreaze or spreeze /sprēz/ (SW Eng dialect)

To chap, roughen, usu in pap sprayed, spraid, etc

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