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Spattering   /spˈætərɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Spatter  v. t.  (past & past part. spattered; pres. part. spattering)  
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."
2.
To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.
3.
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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"Spattering" Quotes from Famous Books



... the last moment when, by sheer force of his will, the knife should be lifted and driven down, deep, even to the hilt. And the white man hastened as best he could, reeling at every step, with blood streaming from his wrists and spattering upon the stones beneath the leering eyes of the gods. Not one of the three heeded the low moaning of the wind as it swept past the temple and through the trees, to die away into a great, uncanny, unnatural silence, unbroken by sound of beast ...
— Leonie of the Jungle • Joan Conquest
... other beacons, marshalling my way to a brighter scene. But this is a lonesome and dreary spot. The tall edifices bid gloomy defiance to the storm with their blinds all closed, even as a man winks when he faces a spattering gust. How loudly tinkles the collected rain down the tin spouts! The puffs of wind are boisterous, and seem to assail me from various quarters at once. I have often observed that this corner is a haunt and loitering-place ...
— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... clothes, and before the astonished intruder could advance towards her she had rushed past him, and had run up on dry land a yard or two behind him. The water on the shelving beach was not more than a foot deep, but her mad bounds made a splashing and a spattering of spray as if a live shark bad been dropped into the shallow water. In a moment she had left the beach and was face to face ...
— The Associate Hermits • Frank R. Stockton
... and Wessner instantly plunged into the swale. A spattering of lead followed them. They crossed the swale, running low, with not even one backward glance, and entered ...
— Freckles • Gene Stratton-Porter
... nearly breaking lower jaw: swings himself into saddle, and sends home both spurs in the midst of a spattering gale ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling


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