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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Spatter

Spăt'ter, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SPATTERED; p. pr. & vb. n. SPATTERING.] [From the root of spit. Cf. SPUTTER.] 1. To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter the boots with mud. Upon any occasion, he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people. Burke.

  1. To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil.
  2. To throw out in a defamatory manner; as, to spatter foul speeches. [Obs.] Shak.

Spăt'ter, v. i.

verbintransitive

To throw out of the mouth in a scattered manner; to sputter. See SPUTTER.

That mind must needs be irrecoverably depraved, which, — tasting but once of one just dead, spatters at it, and abhors the relish ever after. Milton.

Spăt'ter, n.

noun

Moist matter thrown out in small particles.