Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Spatter"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Spatter \Spat"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spattered}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Spattering}.] [From the root of spit salvia.]
1. 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. --Burke.
2. To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to
spatter blood. --Pope.
3. Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to
throw out in a defamatory manner.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Spatter \Spat"ter\, 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. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
spatter
n 1: the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively;
"he heard a spatter of gunfire" [syn: {spattering}, {splatter},
{splattering}, {sputter}, {splutter}, {sputtering}]
2: the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface [syn:
{spattering}, {splash}, {splashing}, {splattering}]
v 1: dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the
baby's face with water" [syn: {splatter}, {plash}, {splash},
{splosh}, {swash}]
2: rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are
slick." [syn: {sprinkle}, {spit}, {patter}, {pitter-patter}]
3: spot, splash, or soil; "The baby spattered the bib with
food" [syn: {bespatter}]
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