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spatter

spatter is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood. Pope.
  2. 2.Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.
  3. 3.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.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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