▪ I. † ˈspattling, vbl. n.1 Obs.
[f. spattle v.1]
Spitting; spittle.
| c 1000 ælfric Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 162 Pituita, i. minuta saliua, spatlung. a 1240 Lofsong in O.E. Hom. I. 207 Bi his scornunge and bi his spotlunge and bufettunge. a 1240 Wohung Ibid. 279, I for þe luue of þe þolede schome and bismere and schomeliche spateling of unwurði ribauz. 1576 Newton Lemnie's Complex. ii. 106 b, Spettle, sweat, sneuel, spattling and Phlegme. 1611 Cotgr., Crachement, a spitting, spatling, spattering, spawling. |
▪ II. ˈspattling, vbl. n.2
[f. spattle v.2]
Spattering; mottling.
| 1611 Cotgr., Papillotage, a spatling, or spottinesse. Ibid., Papillottes de boue, mirie spots, spatlings, bedashings. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 2254/2 Spattling-machine, one for sprinkling earthenware with glaze, or coloured slip, to make party-coloured ware. |
▪ III. ˈspattling, ppl. a. Obs. exc. arch.
Also 6– spatling.
[f. spattle v.1]
spattling poppy (or spattling campion), bladder campion.
| 1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. lxviii. §4. 295 Papauer spumeum, which I haue Englished Spatling Poppie. Ibid. cxxi. §7. 384 Spatling Campion hath a slender hoarie stalke. 1611 Cotgr., Pavot escumant, spatling Poppie, frothie Poppie. 1640 Parkinson Theat. Bot. 263 Some with us call it Knapbottle, and others Spatling or Frothy Poppy. a 1722 Lisle Husb. (1752) 324, I gathered a large handful of spatling-poppy, and held it to the cow. 1758 Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) III. 499 Some sea-holly, and spatling poppy. 1785 Martyn Lett. Bot. xix. (1794) 274 Spatling Poppy is not an uncommon weed among corn and in meadows. 1829 Glover's Hist. Derby I. 114 Silene inflata, spattling poppy, white bottle or bladder champion. |