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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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
spattering
n 1: the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively;
"he heard a spatter of gunfire" [syn: {spatter}, {splatter},
{splattering}, {sputter}, {splutter}, {sputtering}]
2: the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface [syn:
{spatter}, {splash}, {splashing}, {splattering}]
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