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- Spatter - v. t. - 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.
- Spatter - v. t. - To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.
- Spatter - v. t. - 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.
- Spatter-dock - n. - The common yellow water lily (Nuphar advena).
- Spatterdashed - a. - Wearing spatterdashes.
- Spatterdashes - n. pl. - Coverings for the legs, to protect them from water and mud; long gaiters.
- Spattered - imp. & p. p. - of Spatter
- Spattering - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Spatter
- Spatter - v. t. - 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.
- Splash - v. t. - To spatter water, mud, etc., upon; to wet.
- Spatter - v. t. - To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.
- Sloppy - superl. - Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.