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The thick, moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; spit. Spittle insect. (Zoöl.) See Cuckoo spit (b), under Cuckoo.

An abject flatterer or parasite. Theodore Hook.

To slobber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth. Also Fig.: as, to beslobber with praise.

To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle. [Obs.] Milton.

To daub or soil with spittle. Johnson.

To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.

har). -- Frog spit (Zoöl.), the frothy exudation of the frog hopper; -- called also frog spittle. See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo.

An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill. Booth.

r's cubs are born shapeless and subsequently formed by licking. Hudibras. -- To lick the spittle of, to fawn upon. South. -- To lick up, to take all of by licking; to devour; to consume entirely. Shak. Num. xxii. 4.

To wet and foul spittle, or as if with spittle. He slabbered me over, from cheek to cheek, with his great tongue. Arbuthnot.

To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth.

Spawl; spittle. [Obs.] Bale.

Scattered or ejected spittle.

Spittle. [Obs.]

A little lock of hair, plastered in a spiral form on the temple or forehead with spittle, or other adhesive substance. [Colloq.]

Poison spittle; poison ejected from the mouth. [R.] Hooker.

A vessel to receive spittle.

Like spittle; slimy. [Obs.]

That which is expectorated; a salival discharge; spittle; saliva.

at even at this day there be some who warish and cure the stinging of serpents with their spittle. Holland.