a. Now dial. Also 7 sprytie; Sc. 6 sprety, 8–9 spritty. [f. SPRITE sb.] a. Spirited. b. Spirituous.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneid, XI. viii. 26. For eith it is for till assay, and se Quhat may our sprety fors in the melle.

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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.

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1715.  Pennecuik, Misc. Sc. Poems, 10. Such spritty Liquor, cures us of all Sorrow.

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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.

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