a. Now dial. Also 7 sprytie; Sc. 6 sprety, 89 spritty. [f. SPRITE sb.] a. Spirited. b. Spirituous.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, XI. viii. 26. For eith it is for till assay, and se Quhat may our sprety fors in the melle.
1607. Markham, Cavel., II. (1617), 126. Till you see him euen with a sprytie furie and an actiue nimblenes, passe and repasse in his stalle.
1715. Pennecuik, Misc. Sc. Poems, 10. Such spritty Liquor, cures us of all Sorrow.
1854. Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., Sprity, a term applied to wine or beer when the Mother or concreted matter is separated, and floats about in small particles.