ppl. a. [f. SPATTER v.]

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  1.  Dispersed or scattered, esp. in drops or small particles.

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1647.  H. More, Minor Poems, Exorcismus, iv. Wks. (Grosart), 178/1. Those Eastern spatterd lights … purpling the gay Night.

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1720.  Pope, Iliad, XXII. 97. Where famish’d Dogs … Shall lick their mangled Master’s spatter’d Gore.

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1814.  Scott, Lord of Isles, III. xxix. The spatter’d brain and bubbling blood Hiss’d on the ball-extinguish’d wood.

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  2.  Sprinkled, splashed; covered with spots of liquid matter, mud, etc.

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1784.  Cowper, Task, IV. 6. He comes … With spatter’d boots, strapp’d waist, and frozen locks. Ibid. (1794), Needless Alarm, 125. By panting dog, tir’d man, and spatter’d horse.

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a. 1813.  A. Wilson, Foresters, Poet. Wks. (Belfast ed.), 233. The cow loud bawling fills the spattered door.

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1892.  Pall Mall Gaz., 3 Oct., 2/2. Such is the prospect from my spatter’d pane.

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