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• n  the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft)
• n  a quantity of small objects flying through the air
• n  the application of a liquid in the form of small particles ejected from a sprayer
• v  be discharged in sprays of liquid
• v  scatter in a mass or jet of droplets
• v  cover by spraying with a liquid

• Fearing a farm disaster, California begins aerial sprayingIn Northern California the biological clock was ticking away.
• Forty years ago, the term didn't suggest city kids' spraying their aggressive colored tags all over subway cars and buildings.
• In 1981, amid a furor over spraying to control a 1,400-sq.

• crop-dusting
• spray

News & Articles

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• Spraying for pine beetles starts in Bitterroot National Forest
  HAMILTON - Crews are back at work this week spraying trees to try to limit the spread of the mountain pine beetles around some of the most popular recreation areas on the Bitterroot National Forest.
  June 18, 2013 - KTVQ Billings
• Spraying for pine beetles starts in Bitterroot NF
  HAMILTON - Crews are back at work this week spraying trees to try to limit the spread of the mountain pine beetles around some of the most popular recreation areas on the Bitterroot National Forest.
  June 17, 2013 - KTVQ Billings
• Mosquito spraying in Gnadenhutten on Monday night
  Spraying for mosquito control is scheduled to begin about 8 p.m. Monday in the Gnadenhutten area.
  June 17, 2013 - The Times-Reporter

Quotes

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• Jason Bay in SI.com
  I feel like a kid, jumping around spraying champagne with all these guys,Bay said. "It's been a different journey for me."
• Ban Ki-moon in Reuters
  This initiative will offer indoor residual spraying, and bed nets treated with long-lasting insecticide, to all people at risk, especially women and children in Africa,Ban said.
• Sam Farr in Washington Post
  Ever since this thing came out I always thought it was a public disaster,said Congressman Sam Farr, a Democrat. "The spraying started and people just went nuts. It became the lightening rod for protests, and that put the whole program at...