spatter : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: spatter	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for spatter
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spatter n the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire" Synonym(s): spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, sputter, splutter, sputtering the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface Synonym(s): spatter, spattering, splash, splashing, splattering v dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water" Synonym(s): spatter, splatter, plash, splash, splosh, swash rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick" Synonym(s): sprinkle, spit, spatter, patter, pitter- patter spot, splash, or soil; "The baby spattered the bib with food" Synonym(s): spatter, bespatter
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spatter \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.
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.