spattering : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: spattering	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for spattering
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spattering 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
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.