An aspergill or aspergillum is a brush or branch used to sprinkle the water.

Nor did she linger to look at him before returning to the East to put aside the aspergillum.

The fungi form asexual spores in a structure called an aspergillum.

When viewed under a microscope, the mold cells were said to resemble an aspergillum.

-to doff your gloves for once to take the aspergillum.

The form of aspergillum (holy water sprinkler) may differ from place to place.

The form of the aspergillum differs in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

An aspergill or aspergillum is a brush or branch used to sprinkle the water.

I knelt before the offering-fire, and the priest at the altar sprinkled me with his aspergillum, murmuring a blessing.

Replacing the aspergillum, the priest took a pinch of barley meal from golden salver beside the bowl.

An aspergillum was dipped in the situla to collect water with which to sprinkle the congregation or other objects.

The thurible and aspergillum he had already seen, as well as the sword Gregory laid back in place.

Aspergillum in hand, the abbot was punctuating his verses with sprinkles of holy water over the two beds.

He pulled a silver aspergillum out of the bag, dipped the head into the water, then stepped past Alex, and flicked it hard at the wall.

The next aspergillum contained a perfume made from the seeds of white poppies and appropriated to the moon; mixed together with menstrual blood.

One acolyte held a basin of water, and the priest dipped an aspergillum into the bowl and sprinkled a few drops over me.

He then stands next to the holy water font holding a blessing cross in his left hand and the aspergillum in his right.

The acolytes stumbled against one another in confusion, then one bearing a basin of water came forward to offer the aspergillum to the priestess.

He would not look at Evaine, though, and kept his eyes averted until she had turned to face the East, the aspergillum held across her heart.

Then he put the stoup and the aspergillum down, pulled a gold Dunhill from his pocket, and lit the candles.

An aspergillum (less commonly, aspergilium or aspergil) is a liturgical implement used to sprinkle holy water.

In addition, a priest will use the aspergillum to bless the candles during candlemas services and the palms during Palm Sunday Mass.

In the Greek Orthodox Church the aspergillum (randistirion) is in the form of a standing vessel with a tapering lid.

"Of the cedar wood, hyssop, clean bird, and scarlet wool or fillet, were made an aspergillum , or instrument to sprinkle with.

In one derivation, "Kropidło" means "aspergillum" - an instrument used to sprinkle holy water - in allusion to his Church career.

In 2003 the journal Nature published a report on a deep-sea sponge, Euplectella aspergillum, native to the seas around the Philippines and Japan.

An aspersorium is the vessel which holds the holy water and into which the aspergillum is dipped, though elaborate Ottonian examples are known as situlae.

Some have sponges or internal reservoirs that dispense holy water when shaken, while others must periodically be dipped in an aspersorium (holy water bucket, known to art historians as a situla).

Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God."

Then he takes a sprinkler (called in Latin and sometimes in English an "aspersorium", and in English referred to also as an aspergil, and sprinkles himself, the ministers, and then the clergy and people, preferably walking through the church to do so.

The otherwise unattested, agentive form itzam could thus mean "asperser" or "sorcerer".

At any rate, the FT interview is loaded with cool insight into Numan's early sci-fi influences, his fascination with alien abduction experiences and how Asperser Syndrome has affected his work.