[1] : 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.
   1913 webster

         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.
   1913 webster

[2] : 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
see also:
spattered spattering 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

spatter
     n 1: the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively;
          "he heard a spatter of gunfire" syn: spattering, splatter,
           splattering, sputter, splutter, sputtering
     2: the act of splashing a liquid substance on a surface syn:
         spattering, splash, splashing, splattering
     v 1: dash a liquid upon or against; "the mother splashed the
          baby's face with water" syn: splatter, plash, splash,
           splosh, swash
     2: rain gently; "it has only sprinkled, but the roads are
        slick" syn: sprinkle, spit, patter, pitter-patter
     3: spot, splash, or soil; "the baby spattered the bib with
        food" syn: bespatter
see also:
spattering splatter splattering sputter splutter sputtering 
splash splashing plash splosh swash 
sprinkle spit patter pitter-patter bespatter 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

139 moby thesaurus words for "spatter":
   asperge, barrage, beat, beating, bedabble, bedaub, bedew,
   bespatter, bespeckle, bespot, besprinkle, bloodstain, blot, blotch,
   blur, brand, bread, crumb, dab, dabble, damp, dampen, dash, daub,
   dew, dot, douche, dredge, drizzle, drum, drum music, drumbeat,
   drumfire, drumming, dust, eyesore, fall, few, fleck, flick, flour,
   flutter, flyspeck, foam, freckle, froth, handful, hose, hose down,
   humect, humectate, humidify, irrigate, macula, maculate,
   maculation, macule, mark, mizzle, moisten, paddle, palpitation,
   paradiddle, patch, patter, pelt, pepper, pitapat, pitter-patter,
   plash, pound, pounding, pour, pour with rain, powder, precipitate,
   pulsation, rain, rain tadpoles, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat,
   rataplan, rattattoo, roll, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, scattering,
   shower, shower down, slobber, slop, slosh, smatter, smattering,
   smear, smirch, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, sparge, spattering,
   speck, speckle, spindrift, spit, splash, splatter, splotch,
   splutter, sponge, spot, spray, sprinkle, sprinkling, spume,
   sputter, staccato, stain, stigma, stream, stud, swash, syringe,
   taint, tarnish, tat-tat, tattoo, throb, throbbing, thrum, thumping,
   tom-tom, water, weep, wet, wet down

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