spattered, ppl. a.
(ˈspætəd)
[f. spatter v.]
1. Dispersed or scattered, esp. in drops or small particles.
| 1647 H. More Minor Poems, Exorcismus iv. Wks. (Grosart) 178/1 Those Eastern spatterd lights..purpling the gay Night. 1720 Pope Iliad xxii. 97 Where famish'd Dogs..Shall lick their mangled Master's spatter'd Gore. 1814 Scott Ld. of Isles iii. xxix, The spatter'd brain and bubbling blood Hiss'd on the half-extinguish'd wood. |
2. Sprinkled, splashed; covered with spots of liquid matter, mud, etc.
| 1784 Cowper Task iv. 6 He comes..With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks. 1794 ― Needless Alarm 125 By panting dog, tir'd man, and spatter'd horse. a 1813 A. Wilson Foresters Poet. Wks. (Belfast ed.) 233 The cow loud bawling fills the spattered door. 1892 Pall Mall G. 3 Oct. 2/2 Such is the prospect from my spatter'd pane. |