† spattern.1
Obsolete.
A spatule.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > flat blade-shaped
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1569 R. Androse tr. ‘Alessio’ 4th Bk. Secretes ii. 40 Worke it with a spatter, vntill it be come vnto the heigth of waxe.
1569 R. Androse tr. ‘Alessio’ 4th Bk. Secretes iii. 25 Laboring them with the spatter.
1569 R. Androse tr. ‘Alessio’ 4th Bk. Secretes iii. 45 Working it alwayes with a spatter.
1596 P. Barrough Method of Phisick (ed. 3) viii. 423 Stir [the materials] with a spatter vntill they come together.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iii. vi. 143 Having cut the pia Mater, open the sides thereof a little with a Spatter.
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spattern.2
/ˈspatə/, U.S. /ˈspædər/ 1. A slight splash or sprinkle; a spattering.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [noun] > an instance or the result of > small or slight
slent13..
spatter1797
spat1876
1797 T. Park Sonnets 86 'Tis odds that you escape the spatters.
1850 ‘S. Yendys’ Roman vi. 92 I would wash that hearthstone in your blood, If but the poorest spatter on the wall Would save my child!
1896 Daily News 23 Sept. 5/1 Some spatter of war-fire is, indeed, seen here and there.
2. Geology. Magmatic material emitted as small fluid fragments by a vent or fissure associated with a volcano; also, a fragment of this.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > ejected volcanic material > [noun] > fluid fragments
spatter1953
1953 Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 994. 23 Small steep~sided cones composed very largely of spatter are common on the rift zones of Hualalai volcano.
1969 C. Ollier Volcanoes v. 58 Spatter may be erupted through a crack in the surface of a pahoehoe flow, and build up a small cone or spire of scoria and driblets. This is called a hornito or driblet cone. The term is usually restricted to small features perhaps 5 m high.
1971 New Scientist 10 June 611/1 Irregular explosions threw bright orange lumps of spatter as high as 20 metres.
1976 G. 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.
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spattern.3
rare.
A spatterdash or gaiter.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > [noun] > gaiter or legging > types of
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splatterdash1772
spat1802
spring gaiter1846
bootleg1875
upper1889
spatter1898
1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 94 I've my knapsack, firelock, spatters.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
spatterv.
/ˈspatə/, U.S. /ˈspædər/ I. transitive.
1.
a. To scatter or disperse in fragments.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)]
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1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 23 But Capys..Dyd wish thee woodden monster weare drowned,..or ribs too spatter a sunder.
1658 T. Bromhall Treat. Specters ii. 175 [He] did command..to burn all, and to spatter the ruines all about.
1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold ii. ii. 70 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.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > particles or sparks
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iv. sig. Ll6 He without any regard of reseruing it for the Kinges knowledge spattered out the bottom of his stomacke.
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V xxv, in Poems (1878) IV. 107 But now the Palsey of the Common Earth Trembles my Quill, and Spatters out my Inke.
1806 H. 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 prepositions or adverbs.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > project through space > in small particles
spatter1721
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > particles or sparks
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1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Spatter, to dash or sprinkle upon.
1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. lii. 141 Several others struck so near on each side as to spatter the water into our faces.
1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance v. 44 The..puffs of wind spattered the snow against the windows.
1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 308 The person working at the next sink cannot spatter hypo or other chemicals on his neighbor's plate.
1905 [see spatter-cone n. at Compounds]. 2.
a. To splash or stain with drops of fluid, mud, etc.; to bespatter; figurative to assail with obloquy or detraction.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > slander or calumniate [verb (transitive)]
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teleeOE
sayOE
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to speak villainy of1470
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monster1967
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (transitive)] > bespatter
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > splash or splatter
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spluttera1869
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1645 G. Wither Vox Pacifica 65 Your Foes..Finde meanes to spatter, and to ruine those, Whom, to defend, you did (with vowes) professe.
1656 Ld. Hatton in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1897) III. 284 Mr Smith is uery sencible that many little pens will spatter him.
1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 28 Aug. (1965) I. 429 The Arms of France over the house of the Envoy [were] spatter'd with Dung in the Night.
1727 J. Gay Fables I. xiv. 49 Bend all your force to spatter merit.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xviii. 296 As an advocate, he must praise the man whom, a year before, he had spattered with ignominy.
1900 19th Cent. Nov. 795 They're actuallykicking in that mud-puddle there and trying to spatter your nice white dress.
b. To cover in a dispersed manner.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > scatter (a surface) with something
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > sprinkle > sprinkle (a surface) with something
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1647 H. More Cupid's Confl. xlii So Natures carelesse pencill dipt in light With sprinkled starres hath spattered the Night.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxv. 314 Lighted brands came whirling down, spattering the ground with fire.
1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 240 The walls were spattered with placards.
3. Of fluids, etc.: To fall or strike upon (something) in scattered drops.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall down (something) [verb (transitive)] > fall on in drops
spatter1837
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (transitive)] > bespatter > said of the liquid
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. vi. 61 He dies..his blood spattering the cheeks of his old Mother.
1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 42 Huge drops of warm rain, like blood-drops, are spattering the stones.
II. intransitive.
4.
a. To spring or fly, to spirt, in drops or particles; to throw off drops or small fragments.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > violently > in drops or small particles
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1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. liii. 553 If it spatter, there is yet some waterish moisture remaining in it.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. liii. 553 As it is boiling..it will be spattering and casting vp bubbles.
1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 129 If..you cast upon the Iron a piece of Brass it will hinder the metal from working, causing it to spatter about.
1863 J. Tyndall Heat ii. 38 The liquid metal is seen spattering over the poles of the magnet.
1883 Harper'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.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > patter or spatter
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall [verb (intransitive)] > drop or fall vertically > in heavy drops
spatter1673
1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 145 Pour your Eggs and Cream very high into the Bason, that it may spatter in it.
1859 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. II. 279 The rain-drops began to spatter down faster.
1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey I. 316 We heard their bullets..spatter against the rocks.
1887 W. Besant 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.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > speak hastily or confusedly
spatter1618
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > slaver [verb (intransitive)] > spit
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1618 N. Breton Court & Country in Wks. (1879) II. 14/1 The Seruants..no sooner tasted of it, but they did so spit and spatter as if they had been poysoned.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iv. xv. 21 The Grave spatter'd and shook his head, saying, 'twas the greatest errour he had committed since he knew what belong'd to a Souldier.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης ii. 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.
1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. xxxv. 315 The confused hubbub of the little domestic deities, who eat, clattered, spattered, and squabbled around her.
b. To scatter drops of ink.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > ink > [verb (intransitive)] > scatter drops of ink
spattera1640
splutter1837
a1640 T. Jackson Μαραν Αθα (1657) 3718 As Children oft-times 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.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > through liquid or mud
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1806 R. Bloomfield Wild Flowers 9 The mill-brook.., Good creature! how he'd spatter through!
1897 ‘O. Rhoscomyl’ For White Rose Arno (U.K. ed.) 186 ‘Well, I must find out where I stand first,’ said he to himself as he spattered along in the darkness.
Compounds
spatter-cone n. spatter-dock n. (see quots.). spatter rampart n. Geology a wall or ridge formed of spatter along the edge of a fissure in a volcanic area. spatterware n. (also spatter ware) (see quots. 1959, 1977). spatter-work n. 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.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > [noun] > types of work
bowge-work1597
seal-work1648
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splash-work1797
swell-work1833
spatter-work1856
ferronnerie1888
onlay1890
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > volcanic formations > [noun] > lava formations > others
pahoehoe1825
malpais1844
spatter rampart1856
ring wall1858
aa1859
pedregal1881
pillow structure1897
pillow1899
pillow lava1903
block lava1914
ring dyke1915
louderback1930
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > pottery ornamented in specific way
lustre ware1825
celadon1850
willow-ware1851
spatterware1856
sgraffiato1862
barbotine1865
sgraffito1878
slipware1883
photoceramic1892
sponged ware1957
1905 T. C. Chamberlin & R. D. 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.
1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 23 Nuphar... Yellow Pond-Lily. Spatter-dock.
1953 Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 994. 6 The common basalts of Hawaii erupt quietly, building only low spatter ramparts and diminutive spatter-and-cinder cones.
1967 G. Macdonald in Hess & Poldervaart Basalts I. 53 Spatter ramparts may be several kilometers long, although generally they are not continuous over the entire distance.
1977 A. 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.
1935 N.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.
1959 L. Gross Housewives' 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.
1977 J. Fleming & H. 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.
1980 Times 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.
1873 E. S. Phelps Trotty's Wedding Tour 224 Gray spatter-work (oak leaves and acorns) on cranberry silk.
1892 R. Kipling & W. Balestier Naulahka iii. 21 His collection of Baptist dolls, Presbytarian embroidery, and Roman Catholic sofa-pillows and spatter-work, filled his parlour.
Derivatives
spatteˈration n. U.S. spattering.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [noun] > slightly
spattering1604
sparge1808
spatteration1853
1853 S. Moodie Life in Clearings 112 I wonder if..this waterfall [has] been underminin' With constant spatteration.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 23 June 2/1 For Londoners there is no alternative between spatteration and suffocation.
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