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To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.

A guard in the front part of vehicle, to prevent splashing by a mud or water from the horse's heels; -- in the United States commonly called dashboard.

One who, or that which, splashes.

Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.

To play in water, as with the hands; to paddle or splash in mud or water. Wher the duck dabbles Wordsworth.

water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard.

A dashboard or splashboard. [U. S.]

A screen to protect a carriage from mud thrown off the wheels: also, a splashboard.

Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides; -- said of pieces of Chinese porcelain.

To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash. [Obs.] He rudely flashed the waves about. Spenser. Flashed glass. See Flashing, n., 3.

A dash of water; a splash.

Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy. "Plashy fens." Milton. "The plashy earth." Wordsworth.

To fall, drop, or move in any way, with a sudden splash or slap, as on the surface of water.

To wade or move about with splashing; to dabble; also, to potter; trifle; idle. [Scot. & Dial. Eng.]

To make a tumult or bustle; to splash; to make a pother or fuss; to potter; to meddle. Puddering in the designs or doings of others. Barrow. Others pudder into their food with their broad nebs. Holland.

To splash or wet carelessly; as, to sozzle the feet in water. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.

To spatter; to splash.

To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.