Lewis Short
(verb) : perspergo, ĕre, per-spargo
* To besprinkle, to wet.
* Lit.: ligna amureā crudā perspergito,Cato, R. R. 130: unde haustā aquā templum deae perspersum est,Tac. A. 15, 44: Prusiadem urbem perspergit Hylas lacus,Sol. 42, 2.
* Trop.: orationem tamquam sale,Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 159.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary