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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spatter" Quotes from Famous Books

... considerable advantages in the way of being generally invited to write about what interests me, instead of indulging in a kind of spray or spatter work of beneficial publicity—instead of getting off ideas at a nation with a nice elegant literary atomizer, I insist on making ideas do things and I plan on having my ideas done up solidly in ten solid men who will make the ideas ...

— The Ghost in the White House • Gerald Stanley Lee

... swept Julio from head to foot; taking in all the details of his military elegance. His cloak was worn thin and dirty; the leggings were spatter-dashed with mud; he smelled of leather, sweaty cloth and strong tobacco; but on one wrist he was wearing a watch, and on the other, his identity medal fastened with a gold chain. She had always admired her brother ...

— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... over 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

... But, Spatter, I have something of greater confidence now to entrust you with. I think I have ...

— Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan V1 • Thomas Moore

... little easier then, and went to work again: The sky was getting cloudier, 'twas coming on to rain. Before I knew, the clock struck six, and John had not come back; The rain began to spatter down, and ...

— Successful Recitations • Various

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