Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

            Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with
            the blood of his people.              --Burke.

   2. To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to
      spatter blood. --Pope.

   3. Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to
      throw out in a defamatory manner.

Spatter \Spat"ter\, v. i.
   To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner;
   to sputter.

         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.

Source : WordNet®

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}]