Word Meanings - SPURTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To spurt or shoot in a scattering manner. Drayton.

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• SHOOTING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light. 2. A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically , the killing of game; as, a week of shooting. 3. A sensation of darting pain;
• SCATTERLING
  One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.
• SHOOT
  An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current,
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• SCATTER-BRAIN
  A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• SCATTERING
  Going or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.
• SCATTERGOOD
  One who wastes; a spendthrift.
• SCATTER
  Etym: 1. To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order. And some are scattered all the floor about. Chaucer. Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains,
• SPURTLE
  To spurt or shoot in a scattering manner. Drayton.
• SCATTER-BRAINED
  Giddy; thoughtless.
• SHOOTER
  1. One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner. 2. That which shoots. Specifically: A firearm; as, a five-shooter. A shooting star.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• SPURT
  To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt. Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, Spurts in the gardener's eyes who turns the cock. Pope.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• SCATTERED
  Irregular in position; having no regular order; as, scattered leaves. -- Scat"tered*ly, adv. -- Scat"tered*ness, n. (more info) 1. Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.
• SHOOTY
  Sprouting or coming up freely and regularly. Grose.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• OVERSHOOT
  1. To shoot over or beyond. "Not to overshoot his game." South. 2. To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond. Hartle. 3. To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth. Cowper. To overshoot one's self, to venture too far; to assert too much.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• TRAP SHOOTING
  Shooting at pigeons liberated, or glass balls or clay pigeons sprung into the air, from a trap. -- Trap shooter.
• OUTSHOOT
  To exceed or excel in shooting; to shoot beyond. Bacon. Men are resolved never to outshoot their forefathers' mark. Norris.
• UNDERSHOOT
  To shoot short of .
• SIX-SHOOTER
  A pistol or other firearm which can be fired six times without reloading especially, a six-chambered revolver.
• SEVEN-SHOOTER
  A firearm, esp. a pistol, with seven barrels or chambers for cartridges, or one capable of firing seven shots without reloading.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• BESPURT
  To spurt on or over; to asperse. Milton.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• PLASHOOT
  A hedge or fence formed of branches of trees interlaced, or plashed. Carew.