GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Spatter , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spattered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Spattering.] [From the root of spit salvia.]
   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.
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   Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people.
   Burke.
   
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   To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.
   Pope.
   
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   Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.
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   Spatter, v. i. To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter.
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   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.
   
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