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One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. [Obs.] "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.

dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning. A monarchy was shattered to pieces, and divided amongst revolted subjects. Locke.

Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild. J. Goodman.

Easily breaking into pieces; not compact; loose of texture; brittle; as, shattery spar.

To be careless, negligent, or aswkward, esp. with regard to dress and neatness; to be wasteful. Ray.

Resembling a slattern; sluttish; slatterny. "The slattern air." Gay.

The quality or state of being slatternly; slovenliness; untidiness.

Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty. -- adv.

A dance or game played by boys, requiring active exercise. [Obs.] Gayton.

To talk superficially or ignorantly; to babble; to chatter. Of state affairs you can not smatter. Swift.

One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist.

m. I had a great desire, not able to attain to a superficial skill in any, to have some smattering in all. Burton.

tance, 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.

The common yellow water lily (Nuphar advena).

Wearing spatterdashes. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

Coverings for the legs, to protect them from water and mud; long gaiters.

To spatter; to splash.

Uproar. Jamieson.

nment land under permission and restrictions, before acquiring title. In such a tract, squatters and trespassers were tolerated to an extent now unknown. Macaulay.

The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto. Blackstone. As science makes progress in any subject-matter, poetry recedes from it. J. H. Newman.…