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▪ I. † ˈspatter, n.1 Obs.
[Alteration of spatour spature.]
A spatule.
1569R. Androse tr. Alexis' Secr. iv. ii. 40 Worke it with a spatter, vntill it be come vnto the heigth of waxe. Ibid. iii. 25 Laboring them with the spatter. Ibid. 45 Working it alwayes with a spatter. 1590P. Barrough Meth. Physick viii. (1639) 420 Stirre [the materials]..with a spatter untill they come together. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. iii. vi. 143 Having cut the pia Mater, open the sides thereof a little with a Spatter.
▪ II. spatter, n.2|ˈspætə(r)|
[f. spatter v. So WFlem. spetter.]
1. A slight splash or sprinkle; a spattering.
1797T. Park Sonn. 86 'Tis odds that you escape the spatters. 1850S. Dobell Roman vi. Poet. Wks. (1875) 102, I would wash that hearthstone in your blood, If but the poorest spatter on the wall Would save my child! 1896Daily News 23 Sept. 5/1 Some spatter of war-fire is, indeed, seen here and there.
2. Geol. Magmatic material emitted as small fluid fragments by a vent or fissure associated with a volcano; also, a fragment of this.
1953Bull. U.S. Geol. Survey No. 994. 23 Small steep⁓sided cones composed very largely of spatter are common on the rift zones of Hualalai volcano. 1969[see driblet n. 4]. 1971New Scientist 10 June 611/1 Irregular explosions threw bright orange lumps of spatter as high as 20 metres. 1976G. B. Oakeshott Volcanoes & Earthquakes vi. 49 Activity had concentrated on the building of a combined cinder-and-spatter cone made up of hardened lava fragments and congealed blobs or spatters.
▪ III. ˈspatter, n.3 rare.
[Short for spatterdash.]
A spatterdash or gaiter.
1898T. Hardy Wessex Poems 94 I've my knapsack, fire⁓lock, spatters.
▪ IV. spatter, v.|ˈspætə(r)|
[app. a frequentative of the stem found in Du. and LG. spatten to burst, spout, etc.: cf. WFris. spatterje, Helgoland spattere to spirt, WFlem. spetteren to spatter.]
I. trans.
1. a. To scatter or disperse in fragments.
1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 44 But Capys..Did wish thee woodden monster weare drowned,..or ribs too spatter a sunder. 1658Bromhall Treat. Specters ii. 175 [He] did command..to burn all, and to spatter the ruines all about. 1877Tennyson Harold ii. ii, O God, that I were in some wide, waste field With nothing but my battle-axe and him To spatter his brains!
b. With out: To sputter, or cause to sputter.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iv. (1598) 396 He without any regard of reseruing it for the Kings knowledge, spattered out the bottome of his stomacke. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, xxv, But now the Palsey of the Common Earth Trembles my Quill, and Spatters out my Inke. 1806H. Siddons Maid, Wife & Widow III. 76 The indiscriminate censure which every pert would-be witling spatters out against the practice of the law.
c. To dash, cast, send flying, in drops or small particles. Const. with preps. or advs.
1721Bailey, Spatter, to dash or sprinkle upon. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. lii. (1844) II. 141 Several others struck so near on each side as to spatter the water into our faces. 1852Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. v, The..puffs of wind spattered the snow against the windows. 1889Anthony's Photogr. Bull. II. 308 The person working at the next sink cannot spatter hypo or other chemicals on his neighbor's plate. 1905[see 7].
2. a. To splash or stain with drops of fluid, mud, etc.; to bespatter; fig. to assail with obloquy or detraction.
1645Wither Vox Pacifica 65 Your Foes..Finde meanes to spatter, and to ruine those, Whom, to defend, you did (with vowes) professe. 1656Ld. Hatton in Nicholas Papers (Camden) III. 284 Mr Smith is uery sencible that many little pens will spatter him. 1718Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to C'tess Mar 28 Aug., The arms of France over the house of the envoy [were] spattered with dung in the night. 1727Gay Fables I. xiv. 45 Bend all your force to spatter merit. 1879Froude Cæsar xviii. 296 As an advocate, he must praise the man whom, a year before, he had spattered with ignominy. 190019th Cent. XLVIII. 795 They're kicking in that mud-puddle, and trying to spatter your nice white dress.
b. To cover in a dispersed manner.
1647H. More Cupid's Confl. xlii, So Natures carelesse pencill dipt in light With sprinkled starres hath spattered the Night. 1841Dickens Barn. Rudge lxv, Lighted brands came whirling down, spattering the ground with fire. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 240 The walls were spattered with placards.
3. Of fluids, etc.: To fall or strike upon (something) in scattered drops.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iii. i. vi, He dies..; his blood spattering the cheeks of his old Mother. 1860Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. 42 Huge drops of warm rain, like blood-drops, are spattering the stones.
II. intr.
4. a. To spring or fly, to spirt, in drops or particles; to throw off drops or small fragments.
1600Surflet Countrie Farme iii. liii. 553 As it is boiling..it will be spattering and casting vp bubbles. Ibid., If it spatter, there is yet some waterish moisture remaining in it. 1674Ray Coll. Wds., Iron Work 129 If..you cast upon the Iron a piece of Brass it will hinder the metal from working, causing it to spatter about. 1863Tyndall Heat ii. 38 The liquid metal is seen spattering over the poles of the magnet. 1883Harper's Mag. June 117/2 The mineral ichor rises and dances in clouds of steam; it fumes, it spouts, it spatters.
b. To fall, descend, strike, in heavy drops or with a sound suggestive of these.
1675H. Woolley Gentlew. Comp. 145 Pour your Eggs and Cream very high into the Bason, that it may spatter in it. 1859Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. II. 279 The rain-drops began to spatter down faster. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 316 We heard their bullets..spatter against the rocks. 1887Besant The World went v, The musket⁓balls spattering in the water.
5. a. To eject small drops of saliva or particles of food, etc., from the mouth; to splutter while speaking; to cause spattering in any way.
1618Breton Courtier & Countryman Wks. (Grosart) II. 14/1 The Seruants..no sooner tasted of it, but they did so spit and spatter as if they had been poysoned. c1645Howell Lett. I. 229 The Grave spatter'd and shook his Head, saying, 'Twas the greatest error he had committed since he knew what belonged to a Soldier. 1649Milton Eikon. 19 That mind must needs be irrecoverably deprav'd, which..tasting but once of one just deed, spatters at it, and abhorrs the relish ever after. 1828Lytton Pelham xxxiv, The confused hubbub of the little domestic deities, who ate, clattered, spattered, and squabbled around her.
b. To scatter drops of ink.
a1640Jackson Creed xi. xlii. Wks. XI. 258 As children often make fair letters while their tutors guide their hands, but spatter and blot and dash after they be left to their own guidance.
6. To walk or tread in some splashy substance.
1806Bloomfield Wild Flowers 9 The mill-brook.., Good creature! how he'd spatter through! 1897Rhoscomyl White Rose Arno 186 ‘Well, I must find out where I stand first,’ said he to himself as he spattered along in the darkness.
III. 7. In combs., as spatter-cone, -dock (see quots.); spatter rampart Geol., a wall or ridge formed of spatter along the edge of a fissure in a volcanic area; spatterware, spatter ware (see quots. 1959, 19772); spatter-work, a method of producing decorative work by spraying ink or other fluid over something (e.g. leaves of plants) laid on paper or other suitable material.
1856A. Gray Man. Bot. (1860) 23 Nuphar... Yellow Pond-Lily. Spatter-dock. 1873E. S. Phelps Trotty's Wedding Tour 224 Gray spatter-work (oak leaves and acorns) on cranberry silk. 1891Kipling & Balestier Naulahka (1892) 21 His collection of..embroideries, and..sofa-pillows and spatter-work filled his parlour. 1905Chamberlin & Salisbury Geol. I. 580 A still more subordinate variety consists of ‘spatter-cones’ formed by small mildly explosive vents that spatter forth little dabs of lava which form chimneys, or cones. 1935N.Y. Times 9 June x. 9/2 ‘Gaudy Dutch’ was the name given to some of the spatterware made in the shape of peacocks and tulips for this area many years ago. 1953Bull. U.S. Geol. Survey No. 994. 6 The common basalts of Hawaii erupt quietly, building only low spatter ramparts and diminutive spatter-and-cinder cones. 1959L. Gross Guide to Antiques viii. 97 Spatterware is a fairly heavy earthenware with characteristic decoration of color applied with a sponge or spattered on to give a stippled effect. 1967G. Macdonald in Hess & Poldervaart Basalts I. 53 Spatter ramparts may be several kilometers long, although generally they are not continuous over the entire distance. 1977A. Hallam Planet Earth 96 Spatter cones and spatter ramparts form around parasitic vents and fissures when eruptions are less violent and the magma more fluid. 1977Fleming & Honour Penguin Dict. Decorative Arts 751/1 Spatter ware, C19 wares decorated with bright colours applied with a sponge through a stencil, usually giving a blotchy effect. 1980Times 4 Oct. 14/3 On the Staffordshire ‘spatterware’, in particular, Sotheby's American experts were out by a factor of 10 on some of their estimates.
Hence spatteˈration, spattering. U.S.
1853Moodie Life Clearings 112, I wonder if..this waterfall [has] been underminin' With constant spatteration. 1902Westm. Gaz. 23 June 2/1 For Londoners there is no alternative between spatteration and suffocation. |