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pen hand; to clap together; as the hands. [Local, U.S.] Little Isabel leaped up and down, spatting her hands. Judd.

Of or pertaining to the Spatangoidea. -- n.

An order of irregular sea urchins, usually having a more or less heart-shaped shell with four or five petal-like ambulacra above. The mouth is edentulous and situated anteriorly, on the under side.

A genus of heart-shaped sea urchins belonging to the Spatangoidea.

See Spitchcock.

river flood; an overflow or inundation. Burns. Gareth in a showerful spring Stared at the spate. Tennyson.

A spathe.

Having a spathe; resembling a spathe; spathal.

Furnished with a spathe; as, spathal flowers. Howitt.

A special involucre formed of one leaf and inclosing a spadix, as in aroid plants and palms. See the Note under Bract, and Illust. of Spadix.

Having a spathe or calyx like a sheath.

Like spar; foliated or lamellar; spathose. Spathic iron (Min.), siderite. See Siderite (a).

Resembling spar in form. "The ocherous, spathiform, and mineralized forms of uranite." Lavoisier (Trans.).

See Spathic.

Spathose.

See Spatulate.

Of or pertaining to space. "Spatial quantity and relations." L. H. Atwater.

As regards space.

To rove; to ramble. [Obs.] Bacon.

bstance, 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.