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▪ I. ˈspattering, vbl. n.
[f. spatter v.]
1. The action of splashing or sprinkling, etc.
1604T. M. Black Bk. in Middleton's Wks. (Bullen) VIII. 40 The lamentable spattering of his pearl-colour silk stockings. 1611Cotgr., Crachement, a spitting, spatling, spattering, spawling. 1788G. Keate Pelew Isl. (1789) 179 note, It is probable that the spattering of it on their naked bodies might create an unpleasant sensation. 1805A. Wilson Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 150 A fleet of ducks..alarmed with sudden spattering soar. 1856Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. (1879) I. 126 Little spatterings of rain.
†2. A smattering. Obs.—1
a1662Heylin Laud (1668) 317 A small spattering in the Hebrew, made him subject unto some suspicion of Heretical Fancies.
3. A noise (esp. that made by bullets) suggestive of the fall or impact of heavy drops.
1866Ann. Reg. 230 Suddenly..a spattering of musketry breaks out. 1870Daily News 29 Oct., A steady spattering of independent fire, could be heard.
▪ II. ˈspattering, ppl. a.
[f. as prec.]
That spatters, in senses of the vb.
1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 148 His beard sluttish, driveling and filthy, with spattering snevell deformed. 1611Cotgr., Crache en-ruelle, a spawling, or spattering fellow. 1667Milton P.L. x. 567 They..instead of Fruit Chewd bitter Ashes, which th' offended taste With spattering noise rejected. 1708J. Phillips Cyder i. 28 With a writhen mouth and spattering noise He tastes the bitter morsel. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxx, A continued spattering fire, in which every shot was multiplied by a thousand echoes. 1849E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 27 A sudden squall, which..sprinkled us with a spattering rain. 1883Mag. of Art Sept. 470/2 What heaps of linen! What a spattering fire of blows! |