Definition of "aspersed"

Coat of arms in the left-hand bottom corner, a lion or rampant in a field gules, aspersed with billets or. Purchased in Flanders from the subject's descendant, who would not part with the picture until he had cut out the coat […]

1891, William Stirling Maxwell, Annals of the Artists of Spain

The arms of the Counts-Dukes of Benavente have a shield quarterly, or a three bands gules and sinople a five escallops argent aspersed, and bordure compony with the arms of Castile and León.

2012 October 3, Eduardo de J. Douglas, In the Palace of Nezahualcoyotl: Painting Manuscripts, Writing the Pre-Hispanic Past in Early Colonial Period Tetzcoco, Mexico, University of Texas Press, page 194