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(), 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. 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. スポンサード リンク
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