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spatter
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Spatter \Spat"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Spattering.] [From the root of spit salvia.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 2. To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 3. Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Spatter \Spat"ter\, v. i.
To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner;
to sputter.
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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.
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