sparker (sparker)

[ IMG:content-1639.png:[blocks in formation] Hitherto will our sparke full youth laugh at their great grandfather's English. Camden, Remains, Languages. sparkish (spär'kish), a. [ A daw, to be sparkish , trick'd himself up with all the gay feathers he could muster. Sir R. L'Estrange. sparkle (spär'kl), v.; pret. and pp. sparkled, ppr. sparkling. [Early mod. E. also sparcle, sparckle; The Sea seemed all of a Fire about us; for every sea that broke sparkled like Lightning. Dampier , Voyages, I. 414. The rosy sky, With one star sparkling through it like an eye. Byron, Don Juan, ii. 183. sparkle Sparkling heat, such a heat as produces sparks; especially, a degree of heat in a piece of iron or steel that causes it to sparkle or emit sparks under the hammer; a welding-heat.-Sparkling wine, wine characterized by the presence or the emi ion of carbonic-acid gas in little bubbles which sparkle or glisten in the light. = Syn. 1 and 2. Scintillate, Glitter, etc. (see glarel, v. i.), coruscate. II. trans. 1. To emit with coruscations; throw out sparklingly. The bright glister of their beames cleare Did sparckle forth great light. Spenser, F. Q., III. i. 32. 2. To scatter; disperse. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] The riches of Darius was left alone, and lay sparkled abroade ouer all the fields. J. Brende, tr. of Quintus Curtius, iii. 43. 3t. To sprinkle; spatter. The pauement of the temple is all sparcled with bludde. Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on America, [ed. Arber, p. 196).