"asperge" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "aspergō"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin aspergō",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Latin aspergō (compare aspersion from the same verb).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "asperges",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asperging",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asperged",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asperged",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "asperge (third-person singular simple present asperges, present participle asperging, simple past and past participle asperged)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "40 60",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1877, John David Chambers, Divine worship in England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries contrasted and adapted to that of the nineteenth",
          "text": "First let him go up to the principal Altar and asperge it on every side.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To sprinkle."
      ],
      "id": "en-asperge-en-verb-PpPzNqAi",
      "links": [
        [
          "sprinkle",
          "sprinkle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To sprinkle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈspɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)dʒ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "asperge"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "asperges",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "asperge (plural asperges)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An aspergillum."
      ],
      "id": "en-asperge-en-noun-1WrJKPca",
      "links": [
        [
          "aspergillum",
          "aspergillum"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈspɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)dʒ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "asperge"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)dʒ",
    "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)dʒ/2 syllables"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "aspergō"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin aspergō",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Latin aspergō (compare aspersion from the same verb).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "asperges",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asperging",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asperged",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asperged",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "asperge (third-person singular simple present asperges, present participle asperging, simple past and past participle asperged)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1877, John David Chambers, Divine worship in England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries contrasted and adapted to that of the nineteenth",
          "text": "First let him go up to the principal Altar and asperge it on every side.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To sprinkle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sprinkle",
          "sprinkle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To sprinkle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈspɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)dʒ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "asperge"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)dʒ",
    "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)dʒ/2 syllables"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "asperges",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "asperge (plural asperges)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An aspergillum."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "aspergillum",
          "aspergillum"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈspɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)dʒ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "asperge"
}