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▪ I. ˈspurting, vbl. n. [f. spurt v.1] The action of the vb., in various senses.
1611Cotgr., Iallissement, a spurting, sprowting, spouting, or spinning vp (of water). Ibid., Seringuement, a squirting; an iniecting, or spurting of liquor by a Siringe. 1676Wiseman Surg. Treat. (J.), If from a puncture.., the manner of the spurting out of the blood will shew it. 1677Miége Fr. Dict. i, Rejaillissement, a spurting up. 1708Sewell ii, Uytspatting, a Spurting out, lanching out. 1822Shelley Scenes fr. Faust ii. 213 What glimmering spurting, stinking, burning, As Heaven and Earth were over⁓turning. 1844Emerson Ess. ii. Nature, The crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames. 1869Day Puddling 5 in Rankine Mach. & Hand-tools, The spurting about of the metal. ▪ II. ˈspurting, ppl. a. [f. spurt v.1] That spurts; spirting.
1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 187 The..spurting dash Of muttering fountain. 1861Paley æschylus, Choeph. 260 note, Burning in the spurting pitch of the pyre of pine-wood. 1871Stephens in Archaeologia XLIII. 101 What with the loose paper and the running ink, and the spurting pen. b. spurting cucumber: see spirting ppl. a. 1 b.
1786Abercrombie Arr. in Gard. Assist. 18 Hardy Annuals... Cucumber, spurting. |