Category:Spatter

Spat"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Spattering.] Etym: [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.

Spatter Spat"ter, v. i.

Defn: 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.