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Spatter v. t. (past & past part. spattered; pres. part. spattering)

To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud. "Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people."

To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.

Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.

Spatter v. i. To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter. "That mind must needs be irrecoverably depraved, which,... tasting but once of one just deed, spatters at it, and abhors the relish ever after."

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Etymology of 'Spatter'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spatter" Quotes from Famous Books

... morning we had seen mists in various quarters, betokening that there was rain in those spots, and now it began to spatter in our own faces, although within the wide extent of our prospect we could see the sunshine falling on portions of the valley. A rainbow, too, shone out, and remained so long visible that it appeared to have made a permanent stain ...

— Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... on she drew back her veil from its position over her face, leaving her head covered only by a close-fitting motoring bonnet of dark green, from within which her face, vivid with the colouring born of many days driving with and without veils, met without flinching the spatter of rain the fitful April wind sent drifting in under the edge of the top. Her black eyelashes caught the drops ...

— Mrs. Red Pepper • Grace S. Richmond

... did not shake hands, the Earth gesture of—strangely enough—both greeting and farewell, but we both realized that this might well be a final parting. The door closed behind him, and Correy and I were left together to watch the creeping hands of the Earth clock, the twin charts with their thick spatter of green lights, and the two fiery red sparks, one on each chart, that represented the Ertak sweeping recklessly towards ...

— Astounding Stories, April, 1931 • Various

... now, and don't spatter me all over the slide," said the cheerful stout girl, whose doll-like face was almost always ...

— Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp • Alice Emerson

... physical conditions influencing explosions—especially as to barometric influence. There was a good deal of disjointed information on lavas, ropy or rapid flowing and viscous—also on spatter cones and caverns. ...

— Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott

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